All DEVON PCT articles – Page 6
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Hancock calls for clarity on long-term nursing care
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock has urged health secretary Frank Dobson to clarify the government's position on funding long-term nursing care.
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Long-stay care ruling puts duty on NHS
Health authorities suffered bruising defeats in the High Court just before Christmas in two challenges by patients to decisions on the use of healthcare resources.
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Even in the wonderful e-world of the NHS, technology can still go wrong. There was Big Al Langlands in Birmingham all set to deliver a Powerpoint presentation to the massed health authority and trust chairs when his laptop conked out. Not a bit dismayed, the resourceful Al had the NHS ...
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Plymouth: a city guide - and HAZ blueprint
Plymouth is one of the most deprived local authorities - ranking 338 out of 366 on the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions' index of local conditions.
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Fiddlesticks or fact?
Is there any substance to opposition claims that waiting lists are being 'fiddled' by the use of subsidiary lists? Laura Donnelly examines this and other accusations of manipulating waiting-list statistics
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Showing a flicker of life but firing blanks at Dobbo
There are weeks when you wonder how long it will take the Tories to get their act together after the collective nervous breakdown they inflicted on themselves in the mid 1990s. 'I go canvassing - the voters still hate us, don't they?' a former Downing Street official confided at a ...
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Professor Rory Shaw
has become medical director of Hammersmith Hospitals trust. He is a specialist in respiratory medicine and led the development of a new curriculum at Imperial College School of Medicine.
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Spinal injection damage 'was not negligence'
Sometimes medical treatment goes seriously wrong for reasons nobody can explain. Patients in these cases are apt to reach for their lawyers, and legal advisers to seize on the legal maxim res ipsa loquitur - 'the thing speaks for itself '. In effect, they argue, no healthy person who goes ...
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Qualified support
The NHS human resources strategy was broadly welcomed at the HR managers' conference last week. But funding, coercion from the centre and consistency of standards were some of the concerns. Barbara Millar and Mark Crail report
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All quiet on the western front?
A car with a drunken passenger almost falling out of the window veered into a parked taxi. The passenger's head hit the taxi twice.
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Doctors' orders
Family doctors have regrouped into new professional organisations to meet the challenge of primary care groups. Lyn Whitfield examines their differences
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South and West Devon - an amicable process
This is one of the areas where the process of establishing primary care groups has been amicable.
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Thunder and enlightening
Primary care groups were the focus of GPs' anger at the local medical committees conference. Mark Gould reports
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The snazzy new NHS Primary Care Group Alliance is a lobby group in tune with the times. Picking up the government's new emphasis on health promotion, its press launch eschewed the wine, nibbles and danish pastries that often feature at such events. Instead, hacks were offered mineral water. And just ...
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The missing link
Although primary care is the foundation of The New NHS, the government has erred in not linking this
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It's all change as the GPs' organisations regroup and reposition themselves in the run-up to primary care groups, Lyn Whitfield explains