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DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE Learning through the critical appreciation of practice By Della Fish and Colin Coles Butterworth Heinemann 318 pages pounds17.99
Professionals are under siege. Their one-time autonomy is no longer sacrosanct, partly because patients and clients are more knowledgeable and partly because they are more suspicious. Even doctors, who have for so long inhabited the higher slopes of exclusivity, find their patients challenging their judgement, even as far as the ...
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Barnet faces legal action on cuts
A London trust and health authority are facing legal action from a community health council and doctors over a pounds7m package of cuts.
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Adding to local divisions
White paper proposals to determine primary care funding according to a set formula will not solve
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DoH admits to error but no 'secret agenda' in NHS board appointments
Hundreds of recent NHS board appointments are to be investigated after the Department of Health admitted that an error during a trawl for new members may have led to a disproportionate number of Labour councillors getting jobs.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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.