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Report identifies 'bottlenecks' in Scottish A&E
Recommendations to streamline the admission and discharge of emergency patients were made this week by the Accounts Commission for Scotland.
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The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill,
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, designed to make it easier for hospitals to recover charges for treating road accident victims from insurance companies, has been published. It would also abolish the rarely collected £21.30 emergency treatment fee and replace other levies with a £354 charge for accident and emergency ...
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Money talk
Sir Donald Acheson's '39 steps' to reduce health inequalities have not been costed. But they point clearly to a need to increase spending - particularly on benefits. Mark Crail reports
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Top three priorities
All government policies likely to have a direct or indirect effect on health should be evaluated in terms of their impact on health inequalities, and should favour the less well-off. High priority should be given to policies aimed at improving health and reducing health inequalities in women of childbearing age, ...
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Recommendations for the NHS
Equitable access to effective care in relation to need should be a governing principle of all NHS policies. Priority should be given to achieving equity in service planning, implementation and delivery at all levels. Specifically:
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Bridge over troubled waters
Relations between the NHS and the local council in Solihull were difficult - but the borough now has a joint public health director. Laura Donnelly reports
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Altered States
Finance managers who went on a study tour to the US say primary care groups can learn from moves away from market criteria in contract setting. Mark Crail reports
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Group practice makes perfect
'The shifting organisational pattern of doctors may be the key to the fortune of health policy in the US'
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Heading to come
For some of us old enough to remember the suppression of the Black report on inequalities in health back in 1980, the publication of former chief medical officer Sir Donald Acheson's son of Black report felt a bit like the arrest of General Pinochet - long overdue revenge on behalf ...
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Black cloud casts shadow over a toothless Acheson Report blows opportunity to create touchstone for measuring inequality
If Sir Donald Acheson had been called on to write Labour's election manifesto before the 1997 campaign, it is certain that prime minister Tony Blair would have fought on a more radical and redistributive - perhaps even socialist - platform than anything put forward by his party for many years ...
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Head to come This blurb
All leave is hereby cancelled, Territorial Army and Red Cross members are urged to contact their organisations, triage centres are to be set up at known trouble spots, and routine work will be wound down to cope with an anticipated three or fourfold increase in casualties. As the millennium approaches, ...
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Working time directive We fear agencies will use hours rule to clock up higher charges
Shouldn't the rates go down?
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Complaints convenors are strictly impartial - despite what CHCs say
Wendy Goodwin and Tracy Steward (Letters, 5 November) would have us believe that the vast bulk of people who resort to the NHS complaints procedures are disillusioned about getting an impartial hearing.
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Personnel tips for GPs
The director of pay and workforce research, John Northrop, was incorrect when he said: 'HR practices in general practice are non-existent,' (News Focus, page 11, 1 October).
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Health visitors
There can be no doubt that the role of the health visitor has long been the subject of debate, but your report describing the 'enormous implications' of the Supporting Families green paper demonstrates once again the ignorance surrounding the role of the health visitor (News, page 7, 12 November).
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Therapeutic communities offer a philosophy for those with untreatable behavioural problems
In response to Dr Griffiths' letter on treating personality disorder (12 November), it is all too easy to blame politicians.
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Community midwives visit for the first 10 days after birth and then hand over to the health visitor for the notification visit (the only one for which they have legal right of entry).
Community midwives visit for the first 10 days after birth and then hand over to the health visitor for the notification visit (the only one for which they have legal right of entry).