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GP deputising 'failures' added to holiday crisis
Two studies have been launched into claims that failures in GP deputising services added to pressure on accident and emergency services at Christmas.
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Final bids invited for NHS Direct
The NHS Executive has invited bids for the third and final waves of NHS Direct, due to go live in December this year and autumn 2000.
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Remote control
It's like Grimsby, but quieter - and there are more penguins. When Derek Muhl upped sticks from Lincolnshire and went to run a hospital in the Falklands, he found that he could do things his way. He talked to Mark Gould
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Figuring out the problem
Frank Dobson wants to see the 13 chairs whose health authorities failed to meet cervical screening targets. Barbara Millar reports
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Empty pocket
In the second of our occasional series following five PCGs in Enfield and Haringey, Kaye McIntosh finds that the area suffers financially from having a mobile, inner-city population
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Paper cuts deep on morale
Mountains of guidance notes will take their toll on weary chief executives
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Doctors button up as wind of change blows through
Revalidation is in their own interests, as well as their patients'
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A fatal outbreak of ambition
'Nurses or wardmaids are much the same as housemaids, and require little teaching other than making poultices,' wrote a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, John Fleet South, soon after a particularly unpleasant encounter with the indomitable Florence Nightingale. While his views may not necessarily match those of ...
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Sainsbury - out for a duck as food debate hots up?
It was the description of genetically-modified products as being the equivalent of a new wonder-drug which brought me up with a start. 'They're as dangerous as drugs and should be tested with the same rigour as pharmaceuticals,' said someone.
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Carry that weight
From April, chief executives will be responsible to government for clinical services in their trust. What will this new burden mean? Barbara Millar canvasses the opinions of senior managers
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Preparing for clinical governance: a checklist
Carry out an organisational stock-take. The trust or primary care group must test the efficacy of current systems that contribute to clinical governance, including clinical audit, risk management, audit of consumer feedback, and the development of clinical leadership skills.
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Bells ring as NHS Direct contracts go to HBOC
Four more NHS Direct contracts, worth a total of £2.9m, have gone to market leader HBOC.
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'Largest' network links acute sites
North Essex health authority has ordered the largest 'community of interest network' yet to be built in England.
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Hospital embraces clinical care
SEMA has launched a hospital information system that it claims will eventually support clinical care as well as patient administration systems.