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'Mass caterers got us into this mess'
Loyd Grossman, best known as the Through the Keyhole presenter with strangled vowels, is heading the panel of celebrities 'overseeing' the overhaul of hospital food. He has a long record as a food journalist - as a restaurant critic for Harpers and Queen and presenter of Masterchef. But it is ...
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'Caveman catering'
The NHS plan says half of all hospitals must have 'ward housekeepers' by 2004 to ensure food from the new menus is served hot and well presented and that patients can eat it.
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NHS catering: the dismal reality
You are a middle-aged man coming round from a minor but painful op in a sensitive area. What would you like to eat? Chicken soup, an egg and cress sandwich, jacket potato and chocolate mousse? That was supper one December evening for Roy Whitfield at Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon. ...
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Pillow talk
The Patient Power initiative will make life easier for patients - though at a cost - with a bedside TV and phone and potentially the Internet. Seamus Ward reports
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Bedtime stories: 'I hadn't realised how important communications are for patients'
Frank Arnold, managing director of Unicorn Hospital Communications, knows better than most the frustration of not being able to phone his relatives from a hospital bed.
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Programme of success
As with many of the other trusts that have installed bedside TV and phone units, Leicester Royal Infirmary reports some initial opposition to the charges. But Anne MacGregor, the trust's public relations manager, says it is now well-received and the trust and Patientline help patients who cannot afford the service.
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Let's spend the cash together
To go it alone, join other trusts or contract out? Seamus Ward looks at challenges facing NHS procurement purchasers
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One-stop management
For many trusts, outsourcing procurement will be driven by the need to meet the government's 3 per cent efficiency target but Milton Keynes General trust had other pressing concerns when it recently awarded a contract to Drager Medical to manage its electro-medical equipment procurement.
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In a domestic vacuum?
A toilet like the one in the film Trainspotting was just one of the horrors flushed out by hospital cleanliness inspectors, but will government clean-up plans get to the root of the problem, asks Alison Moore
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Stainspotting: the patient's perspective
When someone describes a toilet as being like the one in the film Trainspotting you know It is bad - but it is especially shocking to find that the toilet is in a hospital.
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monitor
It is hardly surprising that over the years Monitor has grown a pretty thick skin. It is essential protection when every waking hour brings accusations that this column is penned by a cynical has-been with no appreciation of the all-pervading shiny benefits that modernisation is bringing to our beauteous NHS.
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Divergent care funding leaves England lagging
MPs have challenged health secretary Alan Milburn over the government's refusal to fund free personal care for nursing home residents in England, leaving them worse off than their counterparts in Scotland.
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Nurses call for huge extension of their powers to prescribe
Nurses have called for a huge extension of powers to prescribe a range of medicines - including controlled drugs.
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Days like this
A survey of district general managers has found 78 per cent do not think the internal market reforms will tackle the NHS's funding problems,50 per cent say the reforms have diverted their energies from running the NHS and 25 per cent do not believe the changes will benefit patients.Philip Hunt, ...
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Tears for fears
With chief executives running around in circles trying to meet the demands of the modernisation agenda, no wonder so many posts go unfilled. Laura Donnelly takes a reading of the top people's gloomometer
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The foresight sagas
The weather affects patterns of sickness, so predicting it can help the health service plan for outbreaks of flu and other illnesses. Lynn Eaton reports
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Gin and bear it: upbeat in the face of adversity
Alan Randall from Eastbourne Hospitals trust was the only chief executive to speak to HSJ on the record about the demands of his job. He is surprisingly upbeat about working in a role which is both 'knackering and exhilarating'.
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Gold blend
Kathy Doran's mix of civil service and NHS experience should see her refining 'the art of the possible' in her new job as NHS director of primary care.Alison Moore reports
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Handle with care
How the NHS treats its workforce is now seen as central to recruiting and retaining staff.The health service is on notice to deliver.Ann McGauran reports
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'Cutting corners, cutting children'
The organ retention scandal saw a public apology from the chief medical officer last week as, yet again, the medical profession stands accused of acting with arrogance and insensitivity. Paul Stephenson reports