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£1m to reduce pressure on junior doctors in Wales
Welsh trusts are being given £1m to assist them with reducing the intensity of work faced by junior doctors. The money will be used to ensure junior doctors have a reasonable expectation of six to eight hours rest when on call continuously, if possible. British Medical Association Welsh secretary Bob ...
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Edgware Community Hospital gets £21.8m revamp
Barnet Healthcare trust has announced that London regional office has approved £21.8m plans to redevelop Edgware Community Hospital. Chief executive Murray Duncanson said it was delighted that modern, integrated services for the local population would be in place within the foreseeable future. One of the first walk-in centres will be ...
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Just the ticket
Booking systems for hospital admission - to make it as easy as reserving an airline ticket - have improved services for patients and won staff and management approval, the national pilot programme shows. Philp Meredith and coleagues report.
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Three degrees: different types of booking projects
Whole health authority - Dorset The pilot includes the five trusts in Dorset and all GPs. The aim is to ensure that by 31 March 2005 any
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Good RAPPORT: booking online
This pilot has created an online booking system to enable GPs to book patients directly into specific consultant outpatient clinics. The RAPPORT - rapid access project programme for outpatient review and treatment - system will enhance the existing booking systems. It provides a seamless link between the hospital and GPs ...
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Take a long, hard look
A film recording peoples experiences of mental health services through the 20th century makes grim, and sometimes shocking, viewing. And its long - but not in the context of participants lives, writes Laura Donnelly
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The impossible dream
The World Health Organisation s goal of health for all by 2000 has clearly failed. Will its strategy for the 21st century fare any better, wonders Wendy Moore
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Health for some by 2000
Global From 1990 to 1997, the number of countries where life expectancy at birth is over 70 years has risen from 55 to 84; access to safe water has nearly doubled from 40 to 72 per cent; and infant mortality has fallen from 76 per 1,000 live births to 58. ...
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GPs alienated by fast roll-out of NHS Direct
The rapid implementation of NHS Direct has alienated many GPs and may hinder its future development, according to a study of London s first two schemes.
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Probe rules on injection accident
An independent inquiry has blamed a misunderstanding between Brighton Health Care trust and BUP A theatre nurses for an incident in which 19 patients were injected with a potentially blinding solution.
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Days like this
Managers will have access to medical audit results, health secretary Kenneth Clarke pledged when he announced £31m to develop the system in hospitals and general practice. I have yet to hear a convincing argument why someone managing a hospital should not have access to the general results of clinical audit, ...
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Extra £90m to ease generic drug costs
The government has performed a partial U-turn in its policy on dealing with the knock-on effects of the spiralling cost of generic drugs.
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Managers commitment to NHS marked in millennium honours
Two prominent NHS managers were recognised in the new year honours list.
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Milburn makes early case for funds boost
Health secretary Alan Milburn has started bargaining for more money for the NHS ahead of this year s government-wide review of spending - but warned that any funds will be closely tied to performance targets.
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Run that by me again: what you may have missed during the festive break
Health secretary Alan Milburn thanked NHS staff for being brilliant over the Christmas and millennium holidays. London Ambulance Service took 2,300 calls in the first six hours of the new year . Greater Manchester Ambulance Service said it had its busiest night ever , taking 1,200 calls in the 12 ...
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Diverted traffic
Acute, self-limiting health problems - such as cough, indigestion or diarrhoea - represent a considerable workload for general practice. It is widely reported, albeit anecdotally, that GPs consider a substantial proportion of their time is wasted by seeing patients who they think are consulting inappropriately or unnecessarily with problems of ...
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Abroad minded
The NHS will remain dependent on overseas nurses for many years and hospitals must ensure effective recruitment and retention. James Buchan explains
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Costs of overseas recruitment, 1998-99
Recruitment from Australia costs approximately £3,200 per nurse (where 40 nurses arrive). This includes the air fare of £800, which is paid for by the nurse but reimbursed by the trust if the nurse stays to the end of the contract. The agency fee includes a percentage of the salary.