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Employing an extra social worker at a 600-bed acute hospital over three winter months (January to March 1997) and extending the opening hours of the medical assessment unit reduced delayed discharges.
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When the going gets tough
Maintaining the supply of nurses has been compared to pouring water into a leaking bucket. The NHS furiously recruits more people so that it can keep on pouring, and now and again there are attempts to patch up the leak. Things improved during the first part of the 1990s, but ...
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Takers and leavers - recruitment facts
The Royal College of Nursing puts current nurse turnover at 21 per cent (compared with 14 per cent in 1987 and 12 per cent in 1992 )
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The image of nursing
The government is spending pounds1.2m on a national recruitment campaign aimed at 'blowing away the cobwebs of old-fashioned perceptions of nurses and midwives'. After phase one of 'Nursing, Have You Got What it Takes?' was launched at the start of last year there were 16,000 enquires about a nursing career, ...
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Spreading the load
One health authority assembled information for a medical staffing profile to help achieve a balance of supply and demand.
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Key Points
Medical workforce planning is a difficult and neglected area, but ignoring it will cost the NHS dear.
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REFERENCES
1 Feil E, Welch H, Fisher E. Why estimates of physician supply and requirements disagree. JAMA 1993; 269(20):2659-63.
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Better health authority understanding about medical training, the potential impact of recent changes on service quality and quantity, and their cost implications.
Improved communication between trusts, the HA and GP groups about pressures on medical workloads and the potential impact on services.
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news focus
It is rapidly becoming clear which bids for health action zone status have the best chance of success.
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There for the asking
Can the government’s planned annual surveys really measure patient satisfaction? And what format should the questionnaire take, ask Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith
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The government's proposal to survey 100,000 patients a year in order to improve services faces
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Bureaucracy: hit and myth
It appears that even the bureaucrats are bureausceptics now. One of the most conspicuous aspects of managers' reaction to the NHS white paper, The New NHS, has been that the proposed pounds1bn cuts in 'red tape' (ie cuts in the number of managers and administrators) hardly rated a mention.1 We ...
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Clinical curiosities
Despite the rapidity of clinical and managerial changes, and the increasing availability of information electronically, there seem to be more books about and for the NHS than ever before. Two of the most popular genres are primers to explain to clinicians the magic and mysteries of management so that they ...
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DILEMMAS IN MODERN HEALTH CARE Edited by John Spiers Social Market Foundation - READY FOR TREATMENT Popular expectations and the future of health care By Nick Bosanquet and Stephen Pollard Social Mark
The Social Market Foundation may have some difficulty now with its title, and certainly the first volume shows that even its contributors scarcely echo Spiers' bold assertion of the 'successful and growing private sector' in the UK today.
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Better network
For the first of a four-part series on the public health green paper targets, Mark Gould visited Manchester to look at initiatives aimed at reducing suicides
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Rolling back the years
The NHS may face a huge bill in backdated claims for pensions contributions. Pat Healy reports
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A different way of doing things
The task of implementing white papers north and south of the border will fall to NHS managers. Barbara Millar reports from Scotland and, below, Mark Crail looks at the challenge in England