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Staff absence costs trusts pounds1.8m a year
Sickness among nurses and midwives can cost individual trusts as much as pounds1.8m a year, according to research.
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This week
New year, new idea: Dennis Holmes, an accident and emergency manager from the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service trust, on duty at one of two mobile medical centres set up in Leeds on new year's eve as a 'trial run' for the millennium celebrations. The centres, staffed by members of ...
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WEB WATCH
One hundred kilometres east of the killing fields of Kigali, a new community of 94 brick-built houses is taking shape in the green hills of Kibungo. Built by its inhabitants, many of whom returned to Rwanda only last year after fleeing the country's troubles, it is a model of good ...
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FOR THE RECORD: WHO DOES WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE
We at Shared Medical Systems Ltd read with interest the article 'Chips off the old block' (News Focus, page 12, 4 December).
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Time to take the medicine?
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee has recommended that 1,000 extra medical students be trained each year. But where will the money come from and do we need them, asks Lyn Whitfield
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RED TAPE MEASURES
If the government is majoring on performance measurement in its new, modern and dependable NHS, how does it intend to measure and demonstrate the removal of pounds1bn from unnecessary bureaucracy over the next four years?
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Labour pains
For all the changes there have been in healthcare in the past half century, some common themes echo down the years, as these edited extracts from Geoffrey Rivett's new history of the NHS demonstrate
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Key Points
A trust, comprising two hospitals, has reduced the mean length of stay for acute medical admissions from 11.1 to 10.5 days and the median from six to five days, despite an increase in the number of these admissions.
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Just rewards?
New year, new NHS Executive head of human resources - and a new pay agenda in the offing. Barbara Millar explores the options for replacing local pay determination in 1998
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How history repeats itself
The prime minister wants to see the NHS’s 50th anniversary marked with events throughout the country. Quite right too. But what a pity that so few staff feel they have much to celebrate. Despite the extra cash since Labour came to power, and the promise of more in 1998-99, the ...
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Ready, steady, go
Patients waiting to leave hospital take up beds needed by others. A discharge lounge where they can wait and be looked after has proved popular - and can lead to more efficient bed use and ambulance services. But some staff are wary.
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IT'S FAR WORSE THAN 'SILLY' TO IGNORE OUR MILLENNIUM PROPOSALS...
The antagonistic reaction from University College London Hospitals trust to our alternative proposal for a 'millennium hospital' (News, page 7, 11 December) may be understandable - but it is not rational, and sadly smacks of 'I have made up my mind, don't confuse me with the facts' type of reasoning.