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The snazzy new NHS Primary Care Group Alliance is a lobby group in tune with the times. Picking up the government's new emphasis on health promotion, its press launch eschewed the wine, nibbles and danish pastries that often feature at such events. Instead, hacks were offered mineral water. And just ...
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Mark Taylor (above) has been appointed chief executive of Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital trust. Mr Taylor was formerly chief executive of the Royal Brompton before its merger with Harefield. Former Harefield chief executive John Hunt becomes deputy chief executive and corporate management director of the new trust. Other appointments ...
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Widdecombe returns in Tory reshuffle
Outspoken right-winger Ann Widdecombe has been made shadow health secretary in a reshuffle of the Conservative front bench.
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Sylvia Diggory, the first ever NHS patient, shares a 1948 leaflet introducing the new service with Terry Waite at a 50th anniversary concert in Manchester. Ms Diggory was a 13-year-old patient at Park Hospital, Trafford, where Aneurin Bevan launched the NHS, and was picked to be part of the occasion. ...
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In this 50th anniversary year of the NHS, one might have hoped for rather better from the Public Records Office. Come to think of it, one might have hoped for something... anything.
In this 50th anniversary year of the NHS, one might have hoped for rather better from the Public Records Office. Come to think of it, one might have hoped for something... anything.
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Turn and turn about
When a national sample of psychiatrists taking early retirement were asked what might have kept them in the NHS large numbers apparently replied, a change of government. Alarmed by the rising number of vacant consultant posts, a pre-election survey by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found members increasingly unhappy about ...
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A question of accountability
What more damning indictment could there be of the internal market than NHS chief executive Alan Langlands' admission (see News, page 5) that he had not known about the failure of cervical screening services because it was 'not the way we were running the health service in those years'?
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IMPROVED PERFORMANCE COMES FROM TRUSTS TAKING POSITIVE ACTION
The incomplete and inconclusive quotation from the academic responding to documented, empirically produced facts about the trends in clinical indicator performance was disappointing ('Doubts cast on dramatic fall in hospital deaths', News, page 6, 14 May).
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Report advocates telemedicine throughout Wales
Wales could be the testing ground for telemedicine in the NHS, after an expert feasibility study of telemedicine in mid-Wales concluded by advising the government to roll out the technology across the entire principality.
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Ashworth chief takes leave after new claims
Ashworth Special Hospital chief executive Hilary Hodge is taking 'extended leave' following the launch of an inquiry into her management style by the hospital's board.
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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL WITH WELLHOUSE TRUST... AND MS MANERO
Your News Focus ('Fax and figures', pages 10-11, 14 May) correctly identified how optimistic Wellhouse trust is about the future.
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Ambulance trusts to get digital mapping software
The Ordnance Survey has signed a deal with NHS Supplies to make a specialised digital mapping package available to ambulance trusts on the UK mainland.
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HBO announces new prescribing tool
HBO has announced an electronic prescribing addition to its computer- based patient record. The system, called Pathways, was developed by Birmingham University's Wolfson Institute for clinicians at University Hospital Birmingham's renal unit.
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Are clinical guidlines the answer
The New NHS demands that trusts will ensure that good practice, ideas and innovations, when they have been evaluated, are systematically disseminated within and outside the organisation, writes Jonathan Hazan. Trust chief executives will be made ultimately responsible for their quality of service. 'Clinical governance' is the buzz phrase.
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Dobbo swears blind that he's **** not ashamed BY MICHAEL WHITE
Don't know about you, but I flinched when I saw those 'Nurses: now the backlash' and 'Nurses fly into blood money row' headlines. They were all about the two British nurses released in Saudi Arabia, of course, but in a week of headlines about bogus angels and clamps left in ...
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Searching for the assembly instructions
Primary care groups are like a piece of self-assembly furniture with lousy instructions admits Michael Dixon, the new chair of the PCG Alliance. Mark Gould reports
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Searching for the assembly instructions
Primary care groups are like a piece of self-assembly furniture with lousy instructions admits Michael Dixon, the new chair of the PCG Alliance. Mark Gould reports