All Whittington Health NHS Trust articles – Page 11
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NHS beware Tory Foxtrot with a Trojan horse
It's hard to concentrate on, say, Tory conference health policy when there is so much distracting noise offstage. All last week in Blackpool we could hear Lady Thatcher, Ken Clarke and Co banging around on the conference fringe like ageing rock stars.
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A feather in his cap as His Dobship turns again
Despite persistent conference rumours in Bournemouth, I was completely wrong-footed by Frank Dobson's change of heart over the London mayor's job. I was not alone. The night before it emerged in the Sunday Telegraph , Jack Straw said on Radio 4's Any Questions that Nick Raynsford, the minister who had ...
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Asthma pilot begins
North London's Whittington teaching hospital is piloting an Internet- based monitoring system for severe asthma patients, in a pan-European experiment funded by the European Commission.
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Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city.
Arthur Binns has become project director for the health action zone covering Leicester city. He was previously finance director for Leicestershire health authority and is a past chair of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Mr Binns' previous post has been filled by Kevin Orford, formerly finance director for Nottingham City ...
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Neglect 'contributed' to pensioner's hospital death
A coroner has condemned a London hospital's alleged failure to examine an emergency patient for two-and-a-half hours and described claims that a nursing sister tried to cover up the blunder as 'inexcusable and reprehensible'. St Pancras coroner Stephen Chan heard last week that 89-year-old Albert Range was admitted to the ...
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Three for all
The sacking of Northern Ireland health minister Tony Worthington has cleared a path out of the whips office for John McFall, MP for Dumbarton and former opposition spokesman on Scottish affairs.
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Dying for a good meal?
The NHS serves 3 million meals a day - more than any other organisation in the UK, even McDonald's. But more than a third of hospital patients suffer from malnutrition. Barbara Millar reports on initiatives to improve standards
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Record queues in Dobson's patch
Hospital waiting lists have reached a record high in health secretary Frank Dobson's own constituency.
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Plain English Crystal Mark holders include:
Argyll and Bute trust, Central Middlesex Hospital trust, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Dumfries and Galloway health board, East and Midlothian trust, Fife health board, Gloucestershire Royal trust, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster health authority, Lifespan Healthcare trust (Cambridge), Borders General Hospital, Cental Manchester Healthcare trust, Down Lisburn Health and Social Services trust, ...