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Regions to face sanctions over unmet targets
NHS regions will be expected to cut the number of patients waiting for hospital admissions by up to one-fifth by next April.
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Getting to the evidence
The immense growth in sources of information for evidence-based medicine calls for a strategic approach, rather than a piecemeal and fragmented one. Ian Smith and Judy Palmer look at some good examples
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Getting to the evidence
The immense growth in sources of information for evidence-based medicine calls for a strategic approach, rather than a piecemeal and fragmented one. Ian Smith and Judy Palmer look at some good examples the task
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End this shambles
'One might have expected just a whisper of concern to escape someone's lips. It was not what you would call a wholehearted conversion to the world of open government'
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NHS Executive is wary of proposals for electronic prescriptions system
The NHS Executive is looking warily at commercial plans to build electronic message channels between GPs and pharmacists.
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Drug firms pre-empt DoH's Prodigy
Doctors and pharmacists will next year receive a CD-ROM detailing available prescription medicines, complete with data sheets, supplied free by the UK drugs industry.
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IHSM ensures leaders will face contested elections
Efforts by leaders of the Institute of Health Services Management to ensure that their successors face contested elections appear to have paid off.
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Commissioned for service
GPs make better-informed decisions about commissioning mental healthcare when clinical and financial information from various agencies is included in service agreements. Eugene McGarrell and colleagues explain.
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Commissioned for service
GPs make better-informed decisions about commissioning mental healthcare when clinical and financial information from various agencies is included in service agreements. Eugene McGarrell and colleagues explain
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Two cheers for HISS
The hospital information support system project has suffered heavy criticism. But supporters say it has benefits that don't show up in the figures, writes Peter Mitchell
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Two cheers for HISS
The hospital information support system project has suffered heavy criticism. But supporters say it has benefits that don't show up in the figures, writes Peter Mitchell
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Wake-up call
The government's declaration that community care has failed should galvanise mental health professionals into action. Cathy Cooper reports
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Wake-up call
The government's declaration that community care has failed should galvanise mental health professionals into action. Cathy Cooper reports
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Burns' stay at NHS Executive to be extended
Frank Burns, architect of the NHS's new information management strategy, will not now be ending his secondment to the NHS Executive in June as planned.
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Snug as a bug in a surgery
Clinical confidentiality is under threat from laws that will allow interception of e-mails and covert surveillance - a practice also known as bugging. Peter Mitchell reports
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IN BRIEF
Health authorities could continue to ration treatments unless the government gives the proposed national institute for clinical excellence powers to enforce guidelines on equity, medical charities warned last week. 'The white paper appears to confirm that commitment but we have serious doubts about whether it will be made to work,' ...
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IN BRIEF
European hospitals are rapidly moving to computerise their handling of medical images, according to market research company Frost & Sullivan. Last year, sales of medical image management and teleradiology systems increased by 20 per cent, reaching a total of 65 million, said F&S. The main driving force is the spread ...