News – Page 2815
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Wait watchers
Casualty Watch observers returned to their posts one month on from a national exercise to discover all was not well. Barbara Millar reports
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
The millennium approaches, and our thoughts lightly turn to computer failures. So it is good of the London Ambulance Service to be so free with information about what happens when an emergency service's information technology systems crash, as its own did in 1992.
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Senior doctors needed on the spot
David Lawrence and colleagues should be congratulated on their careful analysis of the management of emergency hospital admissions ('Over the threshold', pages 26-28, 11 February). Their findings make clear that increasing the number of available hospital beds is not always the solution to current difficulties, and that insufficient attention has ...
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How to be a Mohel: training and examinations in the theory and practice of Jewish circumcision
I was interested in your article 'One for the boys' (pages 26-27, 21 January) about NHS clinics for circumcision.
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The public has a part to play in NHS rationing
In your recent news focus ('Arousing debate', page 12-13, 4 February) about the government's plans to limit prescribing of Viagra, I read with much interest Professor Ruth Chambers' comments that health secretary Frank Dobson 'fell at the first hurdle...' because 'if rationing is to be effective, you have to carry ...
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Doncaster races into first place on two fronts
At the risk of being a spoilsport, I would like to offer counter- claims to two 'firsts' you reported (news, pages 4 and 5, 11 February).
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I say, let's all jolly well get stuck in to the web
As a communications manager in today's NHS, I would like to plead that chief executives everywhere make use of the technology and information that is literally at their own fingertips. Now that the NHS web is very much up and running, everyone who has access to it should use it, ...
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Is the tail wagging the dog when it comes to planning patterns of service delivery for the future?
How big should hospitals be? Different reports have produced different answers. And because new hospitals have been built with little or no regard to their conclusions, the NHS continues to boast a capital stock with wide differences in size and variety.
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Settling in: the portfolio career
As chair of South Western and then South and West regional health authority at the height of the market reforms of the early 1990s, Rennie Fritchie was popular and admired as the liberal, caring (and only female) face of the NHS policy board.
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monitor
It was fluffy bunnies at the local animal sanctuary (Monitor, 18 February). But now Monitor can reveal the real John Hutton. He is born to be mild. Our man in the waterproofs and trilby crash helmet was ushered into the junior health minister's presence last week to hear about government ...
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Key points
The position of large teaching hospitals in the NHS is being challenged by changing patterns of medical education and the expansion of services offered by acute hospitals.