News – Page 2506
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Claim-spotter
What looks like the biggest fraud in NHS history was uncovered in a district audit office in Caernarfon. Audit manager Ian Hughes unravelled the story exclusively for Mark Gould
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Bridging the gap
A move from NHS dentistry into private practice, combined with dentists'general reluctance to work in 'unattractive'areas, is leaving great swathes of the population without dental care. Lynn Eaton reports
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Cornwall: This is your pilot speaking
'It is been a problem here since about 1991, 'says Adrian Tyas, manager of operational services for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly health authority.
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Birmingham: 'Some people have never accessed NHS dentistry'
Birmingham doesn't have a problem with the total number of NHS dentists available, only with the locations of services.
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Too many dentists spoil the broth?
The run-down of NHS dentistry over the past decade could be a blessing in disguise, according to a controversial review published by the Consumers'Association earlier this month.
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When getting a life means getting out of the firing line
The NHS will lose more and more managers to the demands of the job
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Let's hear it for frontline heroes
No, not GPs but all the others in the NHS who work without whinging
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PALS will thrive in hard times
Most people, and certainly most journalists, assume that charities such as the College of Health and our national waiting list helpline (NWLH) love publicity. In theory, of course, we should because we can't help patients with problems unless they know we exist and we can't afford to advertise.
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Teething problems as maverick MPs get stuck into fluoride debate
'Keep it in the family, I say, ' quipped Alan Milburn as he fielded a question from Ann Winterton the other day. The Conservative MP for Congleton has been campaigning to save the heart transplant centre at Wythenshawe, Manchester, and doing it, she revealed, with the support of the MP ...
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Benefit of modifying fat consumption is 'limited'
Coincidence or a straw in the wind? In March, two of the world's leading research journals carried reports that make gloomy reading for anyone with an interest in public health. One was a systematic review of published research, the other a journalistic essay. But both pointed to quietly accumulating weaknesses ...
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The efficiency of waiting lists
'We have discovered that waiting lists to see hospital consultants are subject to the power laws of complexity. . . ' So begins a report in Nature (410: 652). For the odd reader who may, inexplicably, be unfamiliar with power laws in mathematics, they are used to describe the behaviour ...
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Golden Staph illnesses caused by resistant strains
Understanding a problem may help to solve it - but can also reveal it to be tougher than anticipated. So it is with Staphylococcus aureus, the Golden Staph: a never-ending headache for infection-control staff in hospitals, and responsible for the disruption caused by ward closures when it gets out of ...
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do not take it lying down
There is a general assumption that an 85 per cent occupancy rate represents the optimum use of NHS beds. But, says Rodney Jones, this could be the source of many a winter beds crisis