All Health Service Journal articles in 6 March 2008
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The information highway
Two doctors are transforming the way in which the NHS collects and uses data, says Daloni Carlisle
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Alan Maynard on hard questions for NICE
Everyone accepts that resources are scarce and that rationing in the NHS is ubiquitous. Rationing involves depriving patients of care from which they might benefit and would like to have. The most explicit instrument for rationing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is the National Institute for Health and Clinical ...
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Electronic consultation cuts hospital referrals in Bradford by half
Clinicians in Bradford, West Yorkshire, are piloting a scheme to cut referrals to secondary care and improve the care pathway for chronic kidney disease. The scheme relies on an 'e-consultation' tool that allows primary and secondary care clinicians to communicate electronically.
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Notes on a scandal: electronic records
The row over summary care records rages on, but what do patients in pioneer areas think about them and do they fear invasion of privacy? Lyn Whitfield visits Bolton to find out
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Paul Robinson on the waiting times initiative
The NHS is often used as a generic term, but in reality it consists of four different services in four countries. In my last column, I examined surprising differences in the growth of emergency admissions in the four countries. This time we will look at an issue that has had ...
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Thousands now book to see GPs on web
More than 56,000 people booked appointments on-line at their GP practice last month with one in seven practices now able to offer the service.
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New basic skills programme launched
NHS Connecting for Health is to drop the European Computer Driving Licence service in favour of a new Essential IT Skills Programme.
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Intelligence - news in brief
Mobile monitoring system keeps closer eye on mistakesSpecialists in e-working at Coventry University have developed a programme that uses mobile technology to allow staff to report mistakes immediately. The researchers at Coventry got together with health software providers Savant to develop a personal digital assistant system to help improve safety ...
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Reports that took three days - now done in five minutes
Although it is known for its high standards of quality, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals trust has struggled to meet the new demands for fast, accurate information, particularly to support payment by results.
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Lyn Whitfield on being over 30
I attended an IT conference recently at which the keynote speaker told me I could never be a 'digital native' because I was over 30 and hadn't grown up texting.
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Pass on your skills
With a worrying number of health and social care professionals fearing future skills shortages, two new courses could help to plug the gaps
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This week's lookey likey
Timothy Spall is a first class actor and national treasure. But now there is another string to his bow - Professor Wellard of internet site www.wellards.co.uk suggests that he also looks somewhat like NHS Confederation director of policy and HSJ favourite Nigel Edwards.
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All Our Yesterdays
March 5, 1948, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review Within preparations underway for the coming into effect of the National Hospital Service, a number of reports were printed this week on the decisions or provisional arrangements being made as to the allocation of institutions between county and county ...
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Why are there so few BME managers?
With the vast majority of senior NHS managers classed as white, why are there still so few from black and minority ethnic backgrounds? Charlotte Santry reports
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NHS chaplaincy: a spirited row
Chaplaincy is making its case to become a commissioned NHS service. Daloni Carlisle reports
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How to close the readmission revolving door
New software takes the guesswork out of assessing readmission risk, helping services to target resources. Louise Hunt reports
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David Peat on community spirit
It occurred to me the other day that just as TV soap devotees have Coronation Street, in East Lancashire we have Howard Street. But instead of the Rovers Return being the centre of everything that moves, we have Howard Street's community health centre.
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Jenny Rogers on embarrassing emails
About 25 years ago on a management development course I was taken to visit Hewlett Packard.
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HSJ intelligence supplement: password future
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