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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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Heart murmurs
Doctors and the government are at loggerheads over the best way to tackle coronary heart disease in Scotland.
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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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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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Key Points
Employing nurses on annual-hours contracts which include on-call and stand-down duties has led to more efficient deployment of staff in relation to workload.
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Common misconceptions that people with severe personality disorders are 'undeserving and untreatable' often prevent them getting specialist treatment.
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DGHs are faced with a choice between restricting their focus to intensive surgical and medical services or building up alliances with other agencies, including GPs.
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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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Tell it like it is
Despite the rhetoric, carers are often required to look after sick and disabled people with a lack of information no professional would tolerate.
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Milburn orders publication of Read report
Health minister Alan Milburn has ordered the speedy publication of an allegedly damning report on a crisis-hit NHS computer project amid reports of a cover-up.
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Moving targets
Why wait another week to read the public health green paper when The Journal can reveal all?
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A moving story
Deaths among frail, elderly mentally ill patients following their transfer from hospital to the community are not inevitable. Kenneth Bledin and John Riordan explain
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