MARK CRAIL
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It was a year of grand plans and private gestures. Mark Crail on how the millennium bugged the NHS
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'Fog everywhere.Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. . . Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by ...
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Should you ever be in Minneapolis, you could do worse than while away a few hours at the Museum of Questionable Devices. Happily, those of us unlikely ever to cross its threshold can examine the Battle Creek vibratory chair, McGregor rejuvenator and much more besides from the comfort of our ...
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Poring over reports and attending hospital meetings doesn't sound like fun? You'd be surprised. . . Those are the words of trust nonexecutive Pauline Mistry. She goes on to explain how her role at Oxford's Radcliffe Hospitals trust involves 'sorting out the cock-ups' and 'disagreeing with some of the things ...
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We all love protocols and guidelines. They're so New NHS, and they provide the perfect defence when something goes wrong. Now, thanks to the publishers of those old treeware-based Guidelines and Guidelines in Practice, you can consult them without ever having to visit the hospital library.
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For an organisation which tends to attract managers at an early age and keep them for life, the NHS has never been that good at maintaining a collective memory. Its tendency to look for scapegoats when things go wrong and willingness to sacrifice whole generations of managers to organisational change ...
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Three years ago, fewer than a million people in this country made use of the Internet - around 2 per cent of the population. Since then, growth has been dramatic: one estimate suggests nearly 20 million people are now online, and National Statistics says 6.5 million households in the UK ...