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Talk of the toon
Managers are proud of their part in creating a single Newcastle city-wide PCT and reshaping mental health. But the battle is not over yet, says Paul Stephenson
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Celeb city: where medical and political big-hitters feel at home
The North East is politically solid Labour and it seems unlikely that health will be a big issue at the forthcoming election. Newcastle is seen as a privileged area, not only in terms of the concentration of ministers'constituencies there, but the number of prominent medical professionals. As well as primeminister ...
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One gender, two agendas
Vitriolic press coverage, union battles and professional plaudits - Andrew Cole asked the NHS's only female health secretaries to recall their time in power
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We need standard bearers
For decades, healthcare professionals and technologists have been trying to bring about fast and easy access to vital information. They should finally achieve this goal through the convergence of the Internet and health - e-health.
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Come together
The NHS has a long, troubled history of failing to effectively harness IT. Lengthy procurements, lack of common standards and the service's size have led many to conclude that IT is an elephant trap. E-health is the buzzword intended to overcome all this. Dr Peter Drury, head of the NHS ...
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central reservation
Is more centralisation really the way forward? Jane Dudman encounters mixed feelings over the NHS's updated IT strategy
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To the letter
Internet messaging has taken off, but the NHS faces problems with the pace of change. Jane Dudman explains the differences between old and new systems
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NHS net's future role up for grabs
The NHS will not be able to meet the requirements of the NHS plan with a private IT network guarded by 'barbed wire boundaries', according to the NHS Information Authority's new head of access services.
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news round-up
A pilot version of the National Electronic Library for Health was launched at the NHS Information Authority's first conference in Birmingham, with three floors of virtual information including national guidelines, the full Cochrane Library and virtual libraries on specific conditions. A fourth floor for patients was originally envisaged, but this ...
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NHS business
A consortium of 12 Welsh trusts has awarded a £13. 5m contract to McKesson HBOC and Oracle to run all their financial applications for eight years. As well as replacing legacy systems, the deal will simplify reporting to the Welsh Assembly. McKesson HBOC will run existing payroll systems for 17 ...
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spotlight on. . . e-procurement
Companies are vying with each other to offer eprocurement solutions to the NHS, ahead of the publication of a national e-procurement strategy.
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wobbly at the top
Online access to government services - from paying taxes and bills to renewing library books - has become the norm in some countries. Steve Mathieson asks why progress in the UK is so slow and looks at the implications for e-citizens
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e-governing around the world: Singapore
The government's internal management consultancy, the Performance and Innovation Unit (www. cabinet-office. gov. uk/innovation), last autumn looked at other countries'attempts at e-government, and found some doing a lot better than the UK.
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e-governing around the world: Australia
Australia gives a good idea of what is possible. As with the UK, it accepts tax returns online and most are submitted this way via people's accountants. Australia has well-developed government sites, and an interesting and fairly successful public-private partnership site, at www. maxi. com. au, through which state transactions ...
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Scots nurse review wants skills merger
The way primary care is delivered by community nurses in Scotland is set to change dramatically with publication of a review by the chief nursing officer calling for 'a radical modernisation of the public health nursing workforce'.
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Food guru backs waiters on the wards
Waiters and waitresses should serve food to patients in all hospitals, restaurant critic and hospital food guru Loyd Grossman has said following an initiative being piloted in Nottingham.
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RCN U-turn may fail to placate staff
The Royal College of Nursing's council has agreed to reinstate its original pay formula for staff, but by invoking a clause on affordability of pay awards it looks unlikely to avoid the threat of industrial action.