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Room for improvement
Patients treated in good surroundings rate their treatment and staff more highly than those seen in old buidlings. Bryan Lawson and Michael Phiri report
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Design counsel
When I was an art student in the early 1960s, I fell ill with meningitis which developed into ME, and I was admitted to my local hospital for several weeks. The ward was a Nightingale design in a wartime hut and the regime represented excellent care. The responsibility for this ...
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The deals on the bus go round and round
Fifteen trusts co-operated in an imaginative attempt to encourage former NHS nurses to return to work, and the results exceeded organisers expectations. Bernadette Duguid explains
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Lotto bother
Launched in 1998, the healthy living centre is a government initiative designed to encourage health-promoting activities in disadvantaged communities. The definition of health here is broad and includes the wider determinants of health, such as social exclusion, quality of life, environment and access to services.
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Managers warn that pay rise could leave NHS struggling
The governments decision to award most health service staff an above inflation pay rise could leave the NHS struggling to meet the cost of other demands, health service managers have warned.
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Devolution brings this years winter pressures home to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
The aftermath of this years winter pressures on the NHS has been felt by politicians in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as in England.
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Blair line on GDP spend dubbed cynical
Prime minister Tony Blairs promise to increase the share of national income spent on the NHS to European levels in five years has been attacked as a cynical ploy by financial analysts.
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View from the opposition: It doesn't add up to a row of beans
Opposition parties were deeply sceptical about Mr Blairs promise, suspecting it was a sleight-of-hand to deflect mounting criticism of the governments handling of the NHS.
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Standards report seeks further change in appointment process
Dramatic improvements are needed in the way appointments to NHS boards are made, according to the latest report of the committee on standards in public life.
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HA backtracks
Leicester health authority is re-examining plans to move breast care, cardiac and intensive care services from the citys Glenfield Hospital, to turn it into a community hospital.
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NHS to take over MoD hospital
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority is planning to take over the site of a military hospital at the centre of heated debate among local people angered at Ministry of Defence plans to close it down.
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Delays and failure to involve patients dog new charter
The government has come under fire over lengthy delays and failures to properly involve patient groups in the creation of a new NHS Charter .
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Complaints evaluation slips behind schedule
Patients groups have complained of slippage on the NHS's evaluation of complaints project - ordered in November 1998.
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in brief
Health secretary Alan Milburn has warned that waiting lists will rise over the next couple of months because of the planned priority the NHS has been giving to winter emergencies. The number of patients waiting for inpatient and day-case treatment fell by 8,000 in November to 1,071,400.
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Academic takes up chair at Food Standards Agency
Health secretary Alan Milburn has announced key appointments to the new Food Standards Agency. Its chair will be Professor Sir John Krebs, former chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council and a Royal Society research professor at Oxford Universitys zoology department. His deputy will be Suzi Leather, chair of ...
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BMA calls for GPs to be brought within race act
The British Medical Association is calling for GP practices with five partners or fewer to be brought within the ambit of the 1976 Race Relations Act as the Race Relations (Amendment) Bill makes its way through Parliament. A similar loophole excluding small practices from the Sex Discrimination Act was closed ...
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CHC patients panel to inform major Welsh merger
A public consultation exercise is being launched in Cardiff, Rhymney Valley and Vale of Glamorgan involving three community health councils and University Hospital of Wales and Llandough Hospital trust. The trust was formed recently by the merger of two acute trusts and is about to merge again with community services. ...
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NHS Direct call centre planned to divert enquiries
Nurse-led telephone helpline NHS Direct has launched a virtual all centre that will automatically divert calls to an NHS Direct centre in another part of the country if one receives an excessive number of enquiries. The technology was developed by Access Health UK to cover nine counties from Northumbria to ...