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Neither a borrower nor a statistician be, as old Ma Monitor used to say, back in the days when poisson statistics were more likely to be found drowning in garlic in a French bistro than troubling a health policy publication. That was before clinical indicators and balanced score cards became ...
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boom bang a bang
When Big Ben chimed in the year 2000, the technology sector was the 'new economy', an apparent economic miracle. It took just over a year for received wisdom to see it as a disaster.
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Capital's health divide widens
Health gaps between rich and poor are still growing across London, despite the government's much publicised pledge to cut them by 2010, according to a report.
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Trust clinches PFI deal for medical equipment
A trust which opened a new private finance initiative-funded hospital earlier this year has now signed the first major separate PFI deal to provide medical equipment.
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Days like this
Tory pledge endorsed- Jowell predicts 'trolley'election - IT cash row- Consultants unhappy- GPs'ad -Tomlinson to head hospitals inquiry NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol's public endorsement of the Conservative Party's key message on the eve of its annual conference - that the NHS will not be privatised - has divided managers.
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card sharp
Could ID cards open up health records to patients, or are they an infringement of civil liberties, asks Lyn Whitfield Swindon - officially the most 'average' place in the country - was briefly a hotbed of smartcard technology.
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Compensation win for 'grossly dishonoured' nurse
The High Court has awarded compensation of £140,000 for stress and overwork to a nurse employed by Hastings and Rother trust, saying the trust had 'grossly dishonoured' its promise that she could gradually ease back into her ward sister role after having a baby.Trust chief executive Geoff Haynes said initiatives ...
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Inquiry into Bristol medical officer due back 'shortly'
An investigation into the senior medical officer criticised by the Bristol inquiry is due to report back 'shortly', according to the Department of Health.Dr Peter Doyle, a DoH official, has been on extended leave since July when the report was first published.It found that he had placed a dossier of ...