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Open and shut case
Acute mental care consumes two-thirds of all mental health resources. But if there were alternative services for inpatients who no longer need intensive support, costs could be halved, suggest Christina Moore and Judith Wolf
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Avon calling
Putting a health improvement programme in place demands consultation with a huge range of organisations. Linda Ewles reports on how the second largest HA in the country set about it
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What have we learned?
The first lesson was that producing a HImP was a huge task, with many other initiatives competing for resources.
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Pooling resources
Perspectives in public health Edited by Sian Griffiths and David Hunter Radcliffe Medical Press 309 pages £25
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Speed merchant
The PCG tool kit Second edition By Roy Lilley Radcliffe Medical Press 144 pages £30
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Party time is here to stay
Nursing and politics Power through practice Edited by Abigail Masterson and Sian Maslin-Prothero Churchill Livingstone 249 pages £15.95
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Wise words in defence of a fallen chief
It is not entirely a surprise that Audrey Wise, the veteran left-wing MP for Preston, should in recent weeks find herself cast in the rather lonely role of defender of the sacked Guild Community Health Care trust chief executive Les Howell.
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Health Bill comes through battered but unbowed
The government maintained its determined refusal to accept any amendments to the Health Bill from the opposition parties as it completed its report stage and passed to the Lords last week.
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Coded message: don't DIY
The Read clinical codes fiasco showed up weaknesses in NHS funding and project management. But the fatal flaw was a stubborn insistence on ignoring US developments and going it alone, argues Peter Mitchell
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Year 2000 fears grow
The NHS Executive is still fighting shy of naming trusts and health authorities that are failing to meet year 2000 bug-fixing targets - even though the number of laggards is growing, according to the most recent quarterly returns.
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Drugs IT man for top NHS job
A pharmaceutical industry IT professional has been appointed as chief executive of the NHS Information Authority.
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SMS
SMS looks likely to win a multi-million-pound hospital IT contract in the north of England following Siemens' withdrawal from the two-year tendering and procurement process. Royal Hull Hospital and East Yorkshire trusts had been working together in a project to replace their ageing ICL-designed IRC patient administration systems. Having originally ...
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Distant relations
A Highlands trust that has to communicate with GPs in far-flung areas is using an intranet-based system to send test results electronically. Peter Mitchell explains how it works
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Two-way traffic
When two hospitals merged acute services, the challenge was to give both sites access to fast and reliable pathology laboratory test results, explains Peter Mitchell
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Resistance fighters
Antibiotic resistance is a major problem for clinicians, but computer systems can help by automating testing and reporting procedures, writes Peter Mitchell
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Chaos theory
Information system plans for primary care groups are as much up in the air as the rest of the PCG project. The simultaneous need to get all GPs connected to NHSnet by the year end is just adding to the confusion, writes Peter Mitchell
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Asthma pilot begins
North London's Whittington teaching hospital is piloting an Internet- based monitoring system for severe asthma patients, in a pan-European experiment funded by the European Commission.
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Trust ready for millennium accounting
Severn trust is to implement the Geac SmartStream financials system, in a £100,000 contract to make its accounting department Year 2000 ready.