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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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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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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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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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Government considers legislative framework for living wills
The government is consulting on proposals for a legislative framework for substitute decision-
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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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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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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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Honourable discharge
How is the NHS improving hospital discharge arrangements to cope with winter pressures?
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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.
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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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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 ...