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Tory fight to save community units
In the wake of their failed assault on Labour's supposed manipulation of NHS board appointments, the Tories are massing for another attack: on the threatened closure of community hospitals.
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Hansard
The estimated total start-up cost of implementing the Putting Patients First white paper health reforms for Wales is £10m, with recurring costs of £7m a year. But they will provide savings of up to £50m over the next five years, said Welsh health minister Win Griffiths. (4 March, col 675)
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19 March 1948
The National Association of Administrators of Local Government Establishments has circulated a memo on the NHS Act and draft National Assistance Bill, which make provision for the 'sick' and 'normally healthy aged', leaving a residue which will be the responsibility of local authorities. This consists of the following classes:
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EVALUATING HEALTH INTERVENTIONS An introduction to evaluation of health treatments, services, policies and organisational interventions By John 0vretveit Open University Press 324 pages pounds55/pound
There is increasing emphasis on the need to evaluate what we do and to ensure we do it in the most effective or cost-effective ways. Evidence- based healthcare has focused principally on clinical (especially medical) activities. But the way healthcare is organised, financed and managed may well have as much ...
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In person
The Royal Marsden trust has appointed Cally Palmer as chief executive. She joins from the Royal Free Hampstead trust, where she is currently deputy chief executive and director of services. Ms Palmer succeeds Phyllis Cunningham CBE, who is leaving at the end of May after 24 years at the hospital.
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Open to question
Health secretary Frank Dobson last year asked trust chairs to ensure their meetings were open to the public. He believed that the public would 'gain a wider understanding of the constraints and opportunities we face' and 'become more involved in their local health service and have a greater voice in ...
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High hopes
The need to modernise a dilapidated and obsolete hospital stock was a major problem facing the early NHS. In the first of three articles on the forces that shaped today's NHS estate, Ann Dix investigates the ups and downs of the post war years
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Memories of a rock musician
Rock musician Ian Dury is someone who knows all about the inside of hospitals. He contracted polio in 1949, aged seven, probably in the public swimming pool at Southend.
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Memories of a nurse
The scars of the second world war were still in evidence when Diana Vass, now principal nurse adviser at NHS Estates, joined London's St Thomas' Hospital in 1956 as a trainee nurse.
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From showpiece to scrap heap
When English Heritage paid a recent visit to St Margaret's Hospital, Swindon, they 'threw up their hands in horror', admits Ian Keeber, the trust's public relations officer.