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Patients with dementia given home-living boost
A £60,000 project in Northampton is allowing patients with dementia to live at home for an extra six months by providing them with a range of specialist electronic devices.So far,18 people aged between 50 and 96 have used the scheme, with an interim report finding savings ranged from £900 to ...
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Bed-blocking in Birmingham puts NHS plan waiting targets at risk
Bed-blocking in Birmingham is at crisis levels with 'the equivalent of a hospital full' of people awaiting discharge, and work towards achieving NHS plan targets badly hit.
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Climate of change delays free nursing
The organisational changes currently underway in the health service were a key factor in the government's decision to delay full implementation of free nursing care paid for by the NHS.
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Contract talks gather momentum
The process of negotiating a new national contract for GPs, being led by the NHS Confederation, was formally started last week with the publication of a statement of intent from the confederation and the British Medical Association's GP committee.
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Many happy returns?
Efforts to lure nurses both in the UK and from overseas into the health service - and keep them there - have met with a mixed response.Anne Gulland reports on progress so far
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First base: elastic pledges on numbers
Is a pledge still a pledge when it has an elastic deadline?
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Cause and effect
How do chief executives feel about the latest NHS reorganisation? A survey of reactions to Shifting the Balance revealed some disturbing findings.
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Fight club
The threat of violence towards GPs has led South Essex health organisations to set up a special allocation scheme. Carolyn Larsen and colleagues explain GPs have had the right since 1999 to remove a patient immediately from their list for actual or threatened violence or aggression.