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Labour pains
For all the changes there have been in healthcare in the past half century, some common themes echo down the years, as these edited extracts from Geoffrey Rivett's new history of the NHS demonstrate
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Stirring up apathy
Not every set of NHS reforms has excited as much interest as there is today.
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Blissful ignorance
The medical profession of the 1950s gave short shrift to the idea of an informed public. Though many doctors thought that people should know more about health promotion, they felt a detailed knowledge of disease was not desirable.
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Time to take the medicine?
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee has recommended that 1,000 extra medical students be trained each year. But where will the money come from and do we need them, asks Lyn Whitfield
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Stand and deliver
'The fundamental objective must be to make some positive difference to patients. If Andover and others can do this, they will serve as a beacon for much of the rest of the NHS'
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How history repeats itself
The prime minister wants to see the NHS’s 50th anniversary marked with events throughout the country. Quite right too. But what a pity that so few staff feel they have much to celebrate. Despite the extra cash since Labour came to power, and the promise of more in 1998-99, the ...
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Clutching at Straws in the drugs debate BY MICHAEL WHITE
Thank you very much. And a Happy New Year to you, too. But, quite apart from the NHS's 50th birthday, how happy will 1998 be if we continue to make such a muddle of the rules by which we decide - as individuals and collectively - what we should eat, ...
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WEB WATCH
One hundred kilometres east of the killing fields of Kigali, a new community of 94 brick-built houses is taking shape in the green hills of Kibungo. Built by its inhabitants, many of whom returned to Rwanda only last year after fleeing the country's troubles, it is a model of good ...
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Ready, steady, go
Patients waiting to leave hospital take up beds needed by others. A discharge lounge where they can wait and be looked after has proved popular - and can lead to more efficient bed use and ambulance services. But some staff are wary.
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Taking a day off
One trust has reduced the median length of stay for emergency medical admissions from six to five days. Hugh Rayner shows how it was done
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Key Points
A trust, comprising two hospitals, has reduced the mean length of stay for acute medical admissions from 11.1 to 10.5 days and the median from six to five days, despite an increase in the number of these admissions.