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Honourable discharge
How is the NHS improving hospital discharge arrangements to cope with winter pressures?
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Stand and deliver
'The fundamental objective must be to make some positive difference to patients. If Andover and others can do this, they will serve as a beacon for much of the rest of the NHS'
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Taking a day off
One trust has reduced the median length of stay for emergency medical admissions from six to five days. Hugh Rayner shows how it was done
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Government to target high-spending trusts in management costs drive
Trusts and health authorities with higher than average management costs will be targeted in the government's latest drive against 'NHS bureaucracy'.
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Government considers legislative framework for living wills
The government is consulting on proposals for a legislative framework for substitute decision-
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Clutching at Straws in the drugs debate BY MICHAEL WHITE
Thank you very much. And a Happy New Year to you, too. But, quite apart from the NHS's 50th birthday, how happy will 1998 be if we continue to make such a muddle of the rules by which we decide - as individuals and collectively - what we should eat, ...
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High Court rules HA should have consulted over closures
Cash-strapped health authorities contemplating hospital closures would do well to study a recent High Court judgment if they want to avoid having the process derailed.
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A touch of class
A London network of private GP outlets is to be extended to other parts of the country. It is attractive to patients and doctors. But is it elitist? Barbara Millar reports
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CHCs demand new law to end HAs' 'closed-door meetings'
Community health council leaders are demanding changes in the law and new guidance on openness to stop health authorities going behind closed doors to vote through service cutbacks.
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THE WHITE ELEPHANT: SYMBOL OF THE CHAOS IN LONDON'S HEALTH SERVICES
Your report about the closure of St Bartholomew’s (News, page 5, 27 November) hints at a large hospital at Whitechapel under the private finance initiative. But this 1,000-plus bed project would be utterly blind to the health needs of east London and its development.
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US-trained doctor's dispute is test case
A US-trained anaesthetist is fighting for consultant status in Britain in a case that could have implications for medical workforce planning.
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Proposal for first primary care trust
One of the UK's smallest community trusts and its local GPs have set in motion proposals to merge and create one of the first primary care trusts in April 1999.
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Unison calls on Welsh Office to ease HA debt
A union leader has called for Welsh Office support for a health authority facing a pounds13.5m deficit.
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IN BRIEF
Public health minister Tessa Jowell has said she intends to make public health a key part of the UK presidency of the EU. This will include taking forward the tobacco advertising directive and public health issues relating to food law. Ms Jowell is due to chair the EU health council ...
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IN BRIEF
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has announced that a steering group chaired by John Arbuthnott, principal and vice-chancellor of Strathclyde University, is to conduct a 'wide-ranging' review of NHS funding in Scotland. The group will review the 20-year-old SHARE distribution formula to see 'whether the distribution of resources can more ...
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Blissful ignorance
The medical profession of the 1950s gave short shrift to the idea of an informed public. Though many doctors thought that people should know more about health promotion, they felt a detailed knowledge of disease was not desirable.