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Do you Read me?
The Read codes have been dogged by controversy. But the real question is whether they can be adopted across the NHS, says Mike Cross
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Do you Read me?
The Read codes have been dogged by controversy. But the real question is whether they can be adopted across the NHS, says Mike Cross Senior NHS officials are fighting to save what they see as a precious baby from being thrown out with some murky bathwater.
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The rest is silence
The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports
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The rest is silence
The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Room service
St Thomas' Hospital is replacing its manual archives with an electronic imaging system that saves space and time.
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Starting up
Creating a shared evidence centre is too big and complex a job to be done in the margins of people's time. You have to plan and resource it properly from the outset. The obvious people to control the project are those in the group responsible for the trust's clinical effectiveness ...
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In Brief: Seventh child infected with E coli 0157
Dorset health authority confirmed last week that a seventh child in the Purbeck district of Dorset has become infected with E coli 0157 and is being cared for at home.
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Siemens loses 15 staff from health outfit
A healthcare information company announced key job losses last week but denied being on the critical list. Siemens Healthcare Services has made 15 of its 100 staff redundant, closed two regional offices, and replaced managing director John Kane.
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Trusts allot extra £150m to year 2000 IT bug
Trusts have earmarked £150m for replacing medical equipment that will fail because of the year 2000 computer bug, according to the National Audit Office.
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Calls for halt to £200m PFI development
Calls for Scotland's most prestigious hospital building project to be pulled out of the private finance initiative intensified this week with a row over data.
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Nurses accept 3.8 per cent staged pay deal
The nurses' 3.8 per cent pay award was accepted reluctantly by the staff side last week, despite continuing opposition from Unison and the GMB, which voted against settling.
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Milburn admits patients should have a say
Health minister Alan Milburn publicly accepted last week that the idea that 'doctor knows best' is out of date and inappropriate to the modern health service.
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In Brief: Health council directive to ban tobacco advertising
The European parliament last week voted through the health council directive to ban tobacco advertising without amendment. 'This is the most important step we have taken towards reducing tobacco consumption since tobacco advertising was banned from television, ' public health minister Tessa Jowell said.
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Protest against debt in the developing world
Debt-ermined: doctors, nurses and medical students joined a 50,000-strong human chain around Birmingham's International Convention Centre and surrounding buildings last Saturday to protest to G8 leaders against debt in the developing world.
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In Brief: Alan Milburn
Health minister Alan Milburn this week launched 15 pilot schemes to improve access to NHS dentistry and improve oral health. He also announced that an additional £600,000 had been found to fund the preparatory year of the schemes, which have been developed by health authorities under the Primary Care Act ...