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The great divide
New 'fast-track' ambulatory care centres that separate elective diagnosis and treatment from emergency work are part of the government's plans for spending private finance, alongside the building of new hospitals, writes Seamus Ward
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On the crest of a new wave in West Bromwich and Sandwell
Patients in West Bromwich and Sandwell could be among the first to benefit from the new wave of ambulatory care and diagnostic centres.
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PEAT practice
The 'traffic-light' inspections found problems not just with hospital cleanliness but issues such as parking and signage. Are they being tackled, asks Alison Moore
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Separation angst
Single-sex wards are not strictly part of the PEAT work - but are a continual source of complaints and concern, says the Patients Association. 'We have seen not just mixed-sex wards but patients in corridors waiting for Xrays with their bums hanging out, ' says assistant director Simon Williams, who ...
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Shopping around for new models
Improving the environment for 'customers' and making their experience of the organisation better are not issues confined to the NHS.
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An inspector called - and how one hospital responded
Not many estates and facilities directors will admit that their hospital fell into the 'bright red' category in the first round of PEAT inspections, but Bob Pepper, of Pembury Hospital in Kent, is that rare exception.
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Homing instincts
The housing czar is pulling out all the stops to provide more affordable rented accommodation for healthcare workers. But will it be enough, when people want to be home owners? Andrew Cole reports
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Room with a view to staying. . .
For senior staff nurse Karen Mullan the new accommodation at East Central House has come as a godsend. Karen, who works in haematology at University College Hospital London, was living in a nursing home but since she got engaged had been desperately searching for a larger home for herself and ...
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A turn for the better
A nurse rotation programme has already boosted recruitment in the hard-to-staff mental health sector. Patrick Coyne and Alan Beadsmoore do the rounds
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Dear Mel. . .
What is a glass ceiling ? I seem to remember someone else asking you this some time ago but I've forgotten the answer.
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Socket to them
The NHS does an outstanding job making artificial eyes for patients who need them. But, as Laura Donnelly discovered, There is a lot more to the service than that
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We have waited too long for an outpatient shake-out
Primary care must take the strain in a modern health service
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Control freaks in the firing line
After years of denigrating the public sector's fatalism and caution - in large part features arising from successive governments' dismissal of it - there are faint glimmers that this government is considering a different approach.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: John Appleby Job: Health systems programme director, King's Fund Style: Everyone's fave economist - except Number 10's, perhaps. His 'precision'analysis showed up the flaws in Tony Blair's pledge - sorry, aspiration - to raise the share of GDP spent on health to EU levels, and was apparently seen as ...
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Robinson lends bubbly personality to suspended surgeon's campaign
It being Easter, with MPs on their unexpected break, I must confess right away that I have not got as far with this case as I had hoped to. But there have been several near misses.