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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.
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This week
New year, new idea: Dennis Holmes, an accident and emergency manager from the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service trust, on duty at one of two mobile medical centres set up in Leeds on new year's eve as a 'trial run' for the millennium celebrations. The centres, staffed by members of ...
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CHCs demand new law to end HAs' 'closed-door meetings'
Community health council leaders are demanding changes in the law and new guidance on openness to stop health authorities going behind closed doors to vote through service cutbacks.
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Proposal for first primary care trust
One of the UK's smallest community trusts and its local GPs have set in motion proposals to merge and create one of the first primary care trusts in April 1999.
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IN BRIEF
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has said she intends to make public health a key part of the UK presidency of the EU. This will include taking forward the tobacco advertising directive and public health issues relating to food law. Ms Jowell is due to chair the EU health council ...
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Charges 'will not benefit NHS'
There is little economic sense in introducing new charges into the health service, a study from the Office of Health Economics concludes.
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Unison calls on Welsh Office to ease HA debt
A union leader has called for Welsh Office support for a health authority facing a pounds13.5m deficit.