All News articles – Page 2336
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Walls come tumbling down
There were always doubts about the Chinese wall erected by the architects of the NHS Confederation to divide its health authority and trust arms. The idea that ultimate power could reside in two places simultaneously always seemed unlikely to succeed.
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A tale of four cities
Five inner-city general practices, four very different experiences. Kate Adams describes life for patients and staff at practices in Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow and London
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Chain store Dixons
Chain store Dixons featured in a newspaper investigation this week after a freelance computer expert was reportedly 'shocked' to find a computer he bought as an ex-demonstration model held personal details about a psychiatrist's patients. The doctor said Dixons had assured him the computer would be wiped clean after he ...
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Has warned: don't rush to set up primary care groups
Health authorities are to be given a stern warning not to rush into making 'premature' arrangements for setting up the primary care groups proposed in the government's white paper.
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Putting health on the cards
Will the UK follow France and Germany in giving every citizen a health smartcard, asks Michael Cross
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Gro Harlem Brundtland: curriculum vitae
Gro Harlem Brundtland was born on 20 April 1939 in Oslo. She studied medicine at Oslo University, and obtained her MD degree in 1963. She received the degree of Master of Public Health from Harvard University in 1965.
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IN BRIEF
The NHS Confederation and the Institute of Health Services Management welcomed reports this week that the government is considering marking the 50th anniversary of the NHS this summer by announcing a permanent pounds2bn annual increase. Health secretary Frank Dobson is said to have urged the chancellor to boost NHS resources ...
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IN BRIEF
Organisers of a reunion for former NHS management trainees are appealing for help in tracking down graduates of the scheme. Around 2,000 high-flyers are thought to have passed through the programme over the past 41 years, but accurate records of who they are and where they are exist only for ...
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Test blunders claimed eight women's lives, report reveals
The deaths of eight women have been linked to smear-test blunders by the cervical cytology screening service run by Kent and Canterbury Hospitals trust.
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'Scientific' bid to make surgery safer
A regional public health director will meet trust medical directors this week in a bid to set up more scientific ways of ensuring that all doctors practise safe surgery.
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THE GREEN IDEA I'VE SEEN SOMEWHERE BEFORE
I wonder if other readers have noticed the uncanny resemblance between the draft green paper, Our Healthier Nation (News, page 5, News Focus, pages 12-13, and Comment, 22 January), and The Health of the Nation white paper published in 1992 by the Conservative government.
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THE BEAR NECESSITIES OF LIFE WHEN YOU'RE SICK
I read with interest your short item on the 'intensive care bears' being used in the intensive treatment unit of Derriford Hospital, Plymouth (News, page 8, 11 December).
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Bart's is saved as cardiac and cancer centre
Health secretary Frank Dobson said this week he had 'saved' St Bartholomew's Hospital by announcing it will become a specialist centre for cardiac and cancer care.
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Sense of mistrust replaces Ashworth 'gang culture'
Managers have stamped out the gang culture that once ruled the corridors of Ashworth special hospital through increased security, an inquiry heard this week.
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WHEN SIZE MATTERS... BUT MUST BE RECONCILED WITH A LOCAL APPROACH
Matt Muijen asks interesting questions about mental health services in The New NHS (Community Spirit, 22 January).
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NONE OF OUR QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED
Our article ('Time to strip the beds,' pages 30-33, 27 November) sought to show a range of issues which were not properly dealt with by University Hospital Birmingham trust's consultation.
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Fund takeover angers GPs in budget dispute GPs
Doctors at a pilot fundholding project in Scotland have reacted angrily to an unprecedented decision by the local health board to resume control of their budget.
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BAR-CODES ON PRECRIPTIONS WOULD HELP US ALL
Most GP prescriptions are now done on accredited GP computers. It would be a simple matter to make the computer not only print out the prescriptions, but also a bar-code giving the full details of the prescription, including drug name and dosage, patient details and details of the prescribing GP.