All Winter pressures articles – Page 34

  • News

    Health secretary Frank Dobson

    1998-01-15T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson chats to patient Jean Boyle after officially opening Huddersfield Royal Infirmary's pounds1m critical care unit last week. Because of funding problems, the eight-bed unit has been running half-empty since it started accepting patients 18 months ago. The four intensive care beds at the unit have already ...

  • News

    Monitor

    1998-01-15T00:00:00Z

    It's the Patients Association wot tells it how it is, apparently. Or at least, Monitor assumes, the organisation led by novelist and agony aunt Claire Rayner was aiming to reflect the language of the street when it put out a press release about a conference encouraging people to make better ...

  • News

    Honourable discharge

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    How is the NHS improving hospital discharge arrangements to cope with winter pressures?