News – Page 2808
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Non-medical members of the team have much to offer
GPs have dominated discussion of the NHS reforms, with less attention paid to the views of non-medical members of the primary health team. In our shadow primary care group - which covers 87,000 patients and 15 practices - anecdotal evidence suggested that staff felt uninformed about PCGs and were anxious ...
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Still in poor health in Bevan's constituency
Would it be possible for you to request the health secretary to explain precisely what he means by the term 'primary care'? The World Health Organisation defined 'primary healthcare', but the meaning of 'primary care' is uncertain - to me, at least.
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Health Bill fails on patients' rights
'A new statutory duty for quality' was promised in A First Class Service, but the Health Bill going through Parliament seems to sidestep this issue feebly, concentrating on process without enforcing the purpose. Section 13(1) of the draft bill says: 'It is the duty of each primary care trust, and ...
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Rationing and privatisation are not solutions
Dorothy White has highlighted the often covert discrimination in the NHS exercised against older people ('Rational thinking', 25, page 11 February).
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Effective long-term care is not just about cash
The Royal Commission on Long-Term Care misses one crucial point. Nowhere does it refer to the hands-on implementation of its proposals, and it only really examines in depth the financial implications of its recommendations.
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Making sure we're on target in Scotland
Your news focus on the Scottish public health white paper (page 14, 25 February) contained an error. The targets for coronary heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease apply to the population aged under 75.
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Help us find where the missing nurses have gone
Many readers will have seen the coverage of our initiative to drop a 'back to nursing' leaflet through all 80,000-plus letter boxes locally (news focus, page 9, 11 February). It has been the most cost-effective method we have so far used to identify potential job applicants.
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Medical school bids flooding in
The government has received a flood of bids from universities eager to win a share of the 1,000 extra medical students promised by 2005.
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Langlands admits reforms mean managers face 'fatigue overload'
The head of the NHS Executive has admitted that managers are facing 'fatigue overload' in trying to implement the latest health service reforms.
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'Deliver clinical governance - or leave'
Chief executives will be 'expected to leave the NHS' if they fail to deliver the government's clinical governance programme, health secretary Frank Dobson warned this week.
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Fraud busters
Fraud busters: Pippa Farrington (right), chief pharmacist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, looks at a new leaflet issued as part of a government crackdown on prescription fraud with colleague Caroline Fletcher.
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Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry public hearings begin
Queues formed outside the offices of the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry as public hearings started on Tuesday morning.
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'I musn't ever minimise what I am asking people to do'
Over a quarter of the 450 patients at Rampton high-security hospital have no visitors. In July 1997 the Hospital League of Friends patient befriending scheme began, and now has 24 volunteers - all very special people, according to co-ordinator Janet Phillips.
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'Seeing people really grateful because they had a chair made me angry, but also kind of good because I was making a difference'
Nineteen-year-old Neil Higley is planning to study performing arts at university. He first became involved with the League of Friends of Reading Hospitals by taking to the catwalk in a fundraising fashion show.