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Slow motion
For 10 years, staff and patients at a crumbling psychiatric hospital in a bleak cliff-top location wondered if they would ever move to a proposed new unit. Now, with their full involvement, they have. Anna Barnes reports
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In the frame
PCGs will need to get to grips with mental health service provision at practice level if they are to implement the new national service framework. Anne Rogers and colleagues report on a survey
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The comfort of small things
Patients and relatives value the non-clinical, as well as clinical, aspects of care, as Sarah Carr learned when her baby son fell seriously ill
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Type 2 diabetes
Three million people in the UK could have type 2 diabetes by the end of the decade, and many will suffer kidney failure. But diagnosis and management of the problem show disturbing inadequacies, argue Arabella Melville and colleagues
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Monitor
Monitor was flabbergasted when the bastion of journalism that is the Sunday People revealed that the NHS was putting 'free condoms into birdboxes for sick gay orgies'. In a children's beauty spot, no less. Time for a bit of digging, so to speak. The Sunday People explains that one birdbox ...
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IT is good at the simple things - but grand strategies fail
COMMENT Electronic health records are too complicated to emulate the success of NHS Direct, believes Peter Mitchell
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Funding for records put on ice
The NHS Information Authority has shelved its plan to award up to £6m of funding for the NHS's first full electronic health record demonstrator sites.
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Trust co-op's £20m plan gets go-ahead
The Treasury has at last approved the proposals put forward by a group of co-operating trusts in South West region to procure a high-specification electronic health record system. The decision comes three months later than the regional office had expected.
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NHS enters first stage of payroll restructuring
The NHS has begun procurement of a new national system to replace the current variety of payroll systems used in the NHS at the moment.
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Outwardly mobile
Mobile phones and hospitals don't mix, yet many trust staff are essentially mobile. The Royal Marsden trust found an ideal halfway house in digital cordless technology, explains Gary Burkill
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All dosed up
All trusts must have electronic prescribing systems by 2005, the NHS information strategy stipulates. One trust has been successfully using such a package for some time, writes Peter Mitchell
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Antibodies of evidence
Increased lab automation means that the tedious job of cross-matching blood samples will soon be passed on to computers, writes Peter Mitchell
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Going round in circulars
The move towards a standard form of PFI contract for IT projects can make procurement simpler and cheaper, but commercial flexibility should not be forgotten, say Colin Lynch and Paul Webster
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Go with the flow
GPs have forced on the centre what hospitals and health authorities could not: a climbdown on NHSnet. Peter Mitchell reports
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Drug habits in the dock
A recent Appeal Court case has essentially destroyed the Department of Health's self-awarded monopoly on medical data. Peter Mitchell explains
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In Brief: NEON
NEON - formerly Microscript - has announced e-Biz 2000, an integration server compliant with Windows DNA. It can transport data between information servers and applications; determine which data is to be sent where; translate source data into a format suitable for the destination; and provide links between integration servers and ...
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In Brief: Informer Systems
Informer Systems has launched Sentrinet access control software, to allow users to log on to a Novell or Windows NT network with their name and fingerprint rather than a password. The company claims elimination of password management from the IT systems support workload can save up to £150 per user ...