All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-05-11
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Variations on a team
A 24-hour interdisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation of patients has reduced lengths of stay and cut patient complaints to zero.Penny Spreadbury and Kay Riley report
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Sit up, take notice
A survey of 5,000 patients at a Scottish trust shows hospital experience is often uncomfortable, unco-ordinated, lacking privacy, alienating, noisy. Pat Straw and colleagues report
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monitor
Week in, week out, Monitor distorts the charming foibles of the NHS into something tawdry. Cheap digs at bureaucracy's inability to use the humble apostrophe correctly, relentless double entendres and a near obsession with the oversights of Britain's hardest working PRs. Smutty jokes about German professors with rude names getting ...
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Midwives' push for normality 'under threat'
Fear of litigation has brought about increasing medicalisation of maternity services, demoralising staff and reducing women's choice, midwives have claimed.
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Private sector may strip NHS of staff
The private sector competes with the NHS and cannot expand without stripping it of staff, resources and patients, according to the King's Fund.
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NI winter services 'grossly underfunded'
Northern Ireland's health and social services were 'challenged as never before' last winter, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has admitted.
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Whistleblower grievances open to public
A new route has opened up for journalists keen to sniff out stories about what is going on in the nation's hospitals.
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Fast reactor
No-nonsense, straight-talking action man Mike Deegan has two months to solve the problem of how to improve the NHS. Lynn Eaton gets her stopwatch out
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Hospital keeps family scheme
A Scottish hospital is pressing ahead with plans to send patients with learning difficulties to live with staff despite allegations of misconduct and maltreatment of residents.
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Eye opener
One trust has streamlined its referral system for cataract operations - and reduced waiting times dramatically. Bill Stevenson and Pauline Neal report
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Events
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Ventilator trial inquiry finds 'significant' errors
The inquiry into a controversial ventilator trial at North Staffordshire Hospital trust, in which 28 premature babies died and 15 were left brain damaged, has found inadequacies at every level.
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Doubts over Virgin 'gimmick'
Health secretary Alan Milburn's decision to bring in consultants from Virgin Atlantic to advise the NHS on making hospitals more consumer friendly has been greeted with scepticism.