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The risk of death among elderly patients moved out of long-stay psychiatric hospitals can be minimised with careful preparation.
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Carers want a great deal more medical and practical information than they are given at present.
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It's quicker by tube
It's quicker by tube: a pounds500,000 pharmacy unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary brings together the dispensary and the medicine preparation unit for the first time, and has a hi-tech air-tube delivery system which will speed up the transfer of prescriptions and drugs between the pharmacy and hospital wards. 'It signals ...
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Using their initiative
Tomorrow is the deadline for health action zone applications. Dolly Chadda looks at one project which claims to exemplify just what the government is looking for
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Heart murmurs
Doctors and the government are at loggerheads over the best way to tackle coronary heart disease in Scotland.
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UKCC TASK GROUP
The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has set up a task group to produce a framework for the level of specialist practice that will safeguard the public. The group is seeking evidence and opinion from a wide range of people involved in health and social ...
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Scottish group suggests single Lothian trust
A Scottish working group has raised the possibility of there being just one acute trust in Lothian, against the grain of government thinking.
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BY MATT MUIJEN Gently does it this time round
Many will remember the launch of the Tory white paper, Working for Patients, in 1989. Softened up by the razzmatazz more usually associated with boxing matches, everyone in the NHS was herded together in halls across the nation to watch a video of Maggie. Big reforms hit us with the ...
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The regeneration game
A bastion of vested interests? Impersonal? Bureaucratic? The demise of the conventional district general hospital has been predicted for years. But Mike Pollard believes it can survive - and even prosper
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Mental health guidance 'will mean huge extra workload'
Tens of thousands of patients may need to be assessed to determine if they should be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, under new guidance issued by the NHS Executive. Managers fear a huge rise in workload in having to comply with the requirement.
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Doctors' training to include management skills
Radical proposals to put management at the heart of junior doctors' training have been accepted by professional bodies.
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Director of DoH resources and services post goes to Straw's wife
Alice Perkins, a career civil servant and wife of home secretary Jack Straw, has been appointed to one of the top jobs at the Department of Health.
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The same, but different
The NHS white paper for Wales emerged only after a process of negotiation between government departments,
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Papering over the cracks in the Daily Dobson BY MICHAEL WHITE
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity, but don't believe it. By coincidence I had just finished reading Wilkie Collins' great Victorian thriller, The Woman in White, when I flicked open Saturday's Telegraph to learn that 'Care in community is scrapped: Dobson pledges more secure units for mentally ...
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Ministers set to concede defeat on inequality targets
Ministers are ready to concede defeat in their efforts to set national targets for the reduction of health inequalities.
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Staff complain of exclusion from white paper
Professionals and trade unions representing a range of NHS staff this week warned the government its reforms are excluding them.
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Ex-estates chief jailed for stealing
A health service manager convicted of pilfering nearly pounds40,000 from a health authority to help buy a Spanish holiday villa has been jailed for two-and-half years.
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AN EX-NURSE WHO THINKS IT'S TIME TO TAKE A SWING AT CHIEF EXECUTIVES
A question has been bothering me, an ex-nurse, for some time. In these days of managerial cuts and general control on bureaucracy, what is the purpose of chief executives? They cost on average pounds70,000-pounds80,000 and additionally require the support of one, normally two, secretaries. So the cost of a chief ...