All News articles – Page 2377

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    Just rewards?

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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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    Key Points

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    Setting up a discharge lounge has proved popular with patients.

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    Key Points

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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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    Labour pains

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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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    RED TAPE MEASURES

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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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    Time to take the medicine?

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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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    Monitor

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    He has a large family, a big house, and was used to earning pounds80,000 a year. Even if he worked every day and night in his new job he would only rake in pounds17,000 a year. So how does recently ennobled ex-Confed chief executive Lord Hunt of Monitor do it? ...

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    FOR THE RECORD: WHO DOES WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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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    WEB WATCH

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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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    This week

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    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 ...