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MERGING MANAGEMENT WOULD REDUCE WASTE
As another ex-nurse, I write in response to N Brown's letter (22 January) about the amount of money spent on chief executives.
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NONE OF OUR QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED
Our article ('Time to strip the beds,' pages 30-33, 27 November) sought to show a range of issues which were not properly dealt with by University Hospital Birmingham trust's consultation.
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THE GREEN IDEA I'VE SEEN SOMEWHERE BEFORE
I wonder if other readers have noticed the uncanny resemblance between the draft green paper, Our Healthier Nation (News, page 5, News Focus, pages 12-13, and Comment, 22 January), and The Health of the Nation white paper published in 1992 by the Conservative government.
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How Dowager Ginny gave poor Frank a headache BY MICHAEL WHITE
Quite the liveliest health question time of the year (actually it was the first) the other day. Fearless Frank tore into the BBC for misreporting a '65-hours on a ward-trolley' atrocity in Surrey. Everyone said 'Happy 40th birthday' to Minister Milburn, and Paul Boateng got rapped on the knuckles by ...
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Wired for sound
If the headlines are correct, NHS Direct, a nurse-led 24-hour advice and information helpline to be set up across the country by the year 2000, will transform access to healthcare in the UK. The New NHS white paper hailed NHS Direct as a key element in the modernisation of the ...
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Key Points
There is some evidence that the British public would like to see an expansion of telephone advice lines.
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View finders
Involving users in decisions about rationing drug treatments can bring a qualitative perspective to approving new drugs.
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In the clear
Giving patients clear and comprehensible information is crucial. Jane Beenstock and colleagues explain how their hospital has gone about ensuring the information they provide is jargon-free and written in plain English
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REFERENCES
1 Law J, Lyall J. A touch of glasnost in the NHS. Health Service J 1988; 98(5091): 272-73.
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Box 2. Contents of literature assessment
Writing style: questions about the way the information is written - for example, print size and layout.
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Wet ting the whistle
NHS employees who 'go public' on wrongdoing and malpractice are to get legal protection. Patrick Butler reports on the 'whistleblowers bill'
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Half a league onward
Not everyone welcomes government plans to compare hospitals' performance. Lyn Whitfield reports
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1948 and all that
Managers, doctors, nurses, unions, patients - you couldn't get a white paper cover between their leaders when they got together to give the NHS 50th anniversary celebrations their official send-off. An incredulous Mark Crail joined in the fun
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You'd better believe it
Coins and stamps aside, anniversary organisers are promising a cornucopia of ideas to celebrate the NHS's half-century, including a series of big- name lectures, debates on mental health services, and a travelling photo exhibition.
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Reel lives
Was an NHS trust right to allow TV cameras onto a psychiatric ward? Lynn Eaton reports on the row
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When it's time to call in CID
Trials of an American initiative dealing with stress and post-traumatic stress have proved successful, despite initial scepticism. Dolly Chadda reports
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Time to turn the tables
'But do the panoply of indicators and league tables, together with the ritual of public scrutiny and humiliation for the laggards, actually improve performance? Where is the evidence?'
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SELF-HELP BOOKLET SHOWS TRUST IN THE PUBLIC
It is good to know that 50 years on we have at least learned to trust the public and place some confidence in their ability to make sensible use of information and take some decisions of their own about the management of their ailments.