All News articles – Page 1845
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Past tense, present imperfect, future unpredictable
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues
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No quick fix
Three years and £14m later, Professor Rudolf Klein asks whether the cost of the Bristol inquiry represents money well spent
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New panel head faces remit flak
Junior health minister Hazel Blears has announced that GP and former Trent regional chair Dr Peter Barrett will chair the new independent reconfiguration panel.
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Measuring the real impact of medical errors
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues
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Lost empires peep from the dust
Strategic health authorities are built on ruins of Byzantine civilisation
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Days like this
Change medical training, says King's Fund. . .Qa business services make loss. . .
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Trust's open culture praised
The Commission for Health Improvement has praised the 'open culture' of Pinderfields and Pontefract trust, and flagged up its efforts to collect information about risk. It also spoke highly of the trust's attempts to train and educate staff.
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Changing the culture:
Changing the culture: patient advocacy service, Brighton Penny Dunman has worked as patient advocate at Brighton Healthcare trust for over seven years.During that time, she has championed the concerns of many patients and helped to defuse a few time bombs.
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A change is as good as a rest
Health professionals who choose to work in another country get experience of widely divergent health systems - and that is just within the UK, reports Jennifer Trueland
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A poisoned chalice
Social workers get a bad press and are sometimes put in impossible positions.Mark Gould examines their plight on the eve of a major restructure and integration of social care with the NHS
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do not waste your time and cash on the public - just consult me instead
MACHIAVELLI CONTINUES HIS BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE NHS