All HULL TEACHING PCT articles – Page 5
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Medical devices in users' homes fall through year 2000 loophole
Thousands of medical devices in patients' houses and nursing homes have slipped through a hole in the NHS Executive's year 2000 programme, it emerged last week.
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In brief
Health minister John Denham has ordered a three-month public consultation on proposals to merge Hull and Holderness Community Health trust and East Yorkshire Community Healthcare trust. Meanwhile, ministers have approved the merger of Bedford and Shires Health and Care trust with South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare trust on 1 April. Durham ...
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Denham agrees consultation on trust mergers
Health minister John Denham has given the go-ahead for public consultation on proposals to merge five trusts. Consultation on plans to merge East Yorkshire Hospitals trust and Royal Hull Hospitals trust starts tomorrow. Public consultation on proposals to create a single acute trust for Leicestershire from Glenfield Hospital trust, Leicester ...
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Private eye
The government has been coy about releasing its long-awaited review of the private finance initiative. Ann Dix reveals what is in it
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Former nurse Ann Keen
Former nurse Ann Keen has been appointed parliamentary private secretary to health secretary Frank Dobson. The Brentford and Isleworth MP was also general secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association until her election in 1997. She succeeds Hugh Bayley, now a social security minister.
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Short cuts: New test for surgeons' hand-eye co-ordination
A computer test aimed at assessing whether a surgeon has sufficient hand- to-eye co-ordination to profit from training in keyhole techniques has been developed by the psychology department of Hull University, with funding from East Yorkshire Hospitals trust. The test measures the speed and accuracy with which a subject can ...
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£155m hospital for Bromley
Contracts have been signed for the ninth major hospital to be built under the private finance initiative. Building work on a £155m hospital for Bromley will start shortly.
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To boldly go...
Are the World Health Organisation's 21 Health For All European targets a Utopian dream for the 21st century? Wendy Moore talks to those who dare to believe they can be achieved
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NHS hotline wins 35m expansion
A 35m expansion of the NHS Direct telephone helpline has been announced by health minister Alan Milburn.
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NHS hotline wins 35m expansion
A 35m expansion of the NHS Direct telephone helpline has been announced by health minister Alan Milburn.
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Concrete issues
Gems or carbuncles? In the second of three articles, Ann Dix reports on the rise and fall of some of the pioneering hospital buildings of the 1960s and 1970s
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Health economists in glass houses...
As a consultant recently converted to a manager in the NHS, I read with interest Alan Maynard's continued attack on the medical profession (Looking Askance, 11 June). As an economist who clearly knows value for money, he should see the best way to avoid the personal greed of consultants and ...
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What they say about primary care groups
Mark Millar, finance director, Suffolk health authority
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Easter treat
Biker Dean Ashton hands over some of the hundreds of Easter eggs donated to the patients of Hull Royal Infirmary's paediatric ward after fundraising by a local bikers' club.
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Year 2000 IT bug fixing bill may be three times more than first estimates
The year 2000 computer bug may cost some acute trusts three times more than their estimates because they cannot get advice from their medical imaging equipment suppliers.