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Morale victory
The battle for Bart's came to typify patients' fears and managers' frustrations about the changes to the NHS everywhere. Mark Gould reports
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Monitor
Life-long learning is a wonderful thing. So Monitor leapt joyously out of bed at 6.10am one day last week to watch episode 12 in the BBC2 series running alongside the Open University's social science foundation course. And who was the bearded man spouting forth on regional policy in the midst ...
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Making a statement
Having worked at a large teaching hospital for some years, my best tip for clearing waiting lists is to ensure that all patients who have waited nine months positively identify that they still wish to come in. In pre-contracting days this cleared nearly half an 8,000-strong waiting list, and ensured ...
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Test scandal trust 'unduly litigious'
A hospital facing legal action by 89 women affected by a cervical smear test scandal has been accused of being 'unduly litigious' in settling some cases.
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Key Points
The appointment of a primary care mental health worker can relieve pressure on child and adolescent mental health services.
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Key Points
The appointment of a primary care mental health worker can relieve pressure on child and adolescent mental health services.
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Home removal services
As community care reforms continue to depress the market in private residential care and small homes are lost, how will services meet all elderly people's needs?
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A year in the life of Great Ormond Street
'We felt it was in our interests to let people see how Great Ormond Street operates,' says Ros Cliffe, director of public affairs and general fundraising, explaining why the trust decided to let the BBC's Children's Hospital series on its wards for the whole of 1995. It was not a ...
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A year in the life of Great Ormond Street
'We felt it was in our interests to let people see how Great Ormond Street operates,' says Ros Cliffe, director of public affairs and general fundraising, explaining why the trust decided to let the BBC's Children's Hospital series on its wards for the whole of 1995. It was not a ...
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If you had a falling out with a friend, wouldn't you want to know why?
Patients struck off by GPs without explanation
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Visiting the doctor is not like going to the pub
I've just seen a tearful elderly client who went to see their doctor seeking a referral.
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A distressingly high number of people with mental health problems are struck off by GPs
Despite Steve Ainsworth's statistic of 'only one person per GP per year', there is a distressingly high incidence of people with mental health problems being removed from GPs' lists.
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An opportunity to sit down and discuss pay for today
But if staff- side organisations can't agree, what hope of a national deal?