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How to win friends and influence them
Good nurses are born, not made - and they are born with an inferiority complex. Why this should be, no-one can tell. Everyone holds them in high esteem. . . everyone but other nurses. The way to get them to do what you want is to play on this insecurity ...
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Cutting edge
The enhancement of post-operative theatre recovery facilities to provide short-term intensive care for surgical patients, a concept pioneered at St Thomas' trust more than a decade ago, received the Department of Health's seal of approval in a health service circular published earlier this year on critical care services.
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Raising the stakes
Community consultation and stakeholder involvement in planning are key elements of the new management agenda for health authorities. PricewaterhouseCoopers carried out research with 25 HAs during January 2000 to gather comparative information on strategies and approaches to community consultation. Questionnaires were sent to the chief executives of 100 HAs in ...
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In the know
The increasing dependency of older people in residential homes will place a greater burden on nursing services. Training care staff is one way forward. Cathy Malone and Rona Mackenzie report
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Sweeping the board
The primary care trust tool kit A workbook for the health service and primary care team By Roy Lilley Radcliffe Medical Press 200 pages £30
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Colouring in the details
Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness Edited by Waqar I U Ahmad Open University Press 154 pages
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Pushing, pushing the point home
Social perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth for midwives, nurses and the caring professions By Julie Kent Open University Press 251 pages £16.99
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data briefing
Increased health spending does not necessarily mean a healthier population. John Appleby looks at how the use of different measures can lead to contradictory outcomes
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Events
Conservative policy 3 October, Bournemouth The Social Market Foundation is organising an evening event on 'Conservative health policy: next for the NHS?'. Panellists are Conservative health spokesman Philip Hammond, Stephen Pollard, chief leader writer of the Daily Express, and Dr Tim Evans, executive director of the Independent Healthcare Association.
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Trust inspections will exact high toll, warns HSJ survey
Inspecting every NHS trust in the UK could cost nearly £15m and cause a significant increase in stress for all staff, according to an exclusive survey commissioned by HSJ and the Health Quality Service.
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Medical director quits while cardiac services probe hangs in the balance
The medical director of Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust has resigned as it awaits the findings of an inquiry into cardiac services.
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Blair and Milburn split on criteria for new chief executive of NHS
Health secretary Alan Milburn is caught in a row between the Department of Health and Number 10 over who to appoint as NHS chief executive, HSJ understands.
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Conservatives give 'hands off 'health pledge
The Conservative Party has pledged to 'take politicians out of the day-to-day management of the NHS'.
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Target pressure for PMS pilots
Draft core contracts for future personal medical services pilots will require GPs to sign up to the NHS plan's targets for access to a primary care professional within 24 hours and to a GP within 48 hours by 2004.
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In brief: Resuscitation policy
Trust chief executives must ensure that by next April all hospitals have a local resuscitation policy in place that follows new guidelines issued on Tuesday by health secretary Alan Milburn. This follows last winter's outcry over a number of 'do not resuscitate'orders. The policy must be made available to patients ...
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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association in Scotland has called for a 'new culture of openness and transparency' in dealing with organ retention. Scottish secretary Dr Bill O'Neill said overprotective doctors had tried to 'shield' parents from the details of post mortems, but the public outcry over organ retention showed that this ...
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In brief: Cambridge ambulance crews
Cambridge ambulance crews have been given a special hotline to request CCTV control room staff to monitor calls to potentially hazardous situations. The cameras already perform this service for the police. East Anglian Ambulance trust has promised to support the prosecution of anyone caught assaulting staff.
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In brief: Dudley Group of Hospitals trust
About 600 Unison members have begun a week-long strike against transfer out of the NHS in a private finance initiative deal at Dudley Group of Hospitals trust. The mainly ancillary workers have already staged a two-day and a four-day strike. Last week, West Midlands regional office chair Clive Wilkinson visited ...
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In brief: Selly Oak Hospital
Seven military nurses have reported for duty at the accident and emergency unit of Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham. A new national Centre for Defence Medicine is being established at University Hospital Birmingham trust and should be fully operational from next April.