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Your country needs you
Why can't the UK solve its nursing shortage? James Buchan examines the pattern of problems and solutions
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Listless feeling
The NHS has been told to pilot booking systems to replace waiting lists. Ruth Kipping visited New Zealand, where the change is being attempted nationwide
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The price is right
The quest to cut the NHS drugs bill has met with spectacular success in the elderly care department of one acute hospital. David Griffith and Mark Robinson explain how
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Union fury at trust's 'cynical' outsourcing
Unions at University College London Hospitals trust have protested at its 'contemptible and cynical' outsourcing of information technology systems to market-leading health computing company HBOC. The £2m contract is part of UCLH's preparations for building a new hospital under a £160m private finance initiative deal.
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Siemens dumps system
Siemens Healthcare Services has dumped the OpenPAS patient administration system inherited from its takeover of ICL in 1996.
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BMA raises data security worry
Doctors' negotiators are preparing to demand extra controls on the new NHS-wide number-tracing service.
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In brief: Scotland's NHS
Scotland's NHS is to spend £6m on the next phase of a plan to connect the country's 370 hospitals and health boards to its 1,075 GP surgeries. The first phase provided £7m to equip GP practices with Windows NT machines and ISDN connections to a private BT network. The second ...
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In brief: Pharm-line
Pharm-line, the medicines bibliographic database developed by Guy's and St Thomas' trust, is now available in a searchable form over the NHSnet, at IP address 194.19.117.4.
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In brief: SMS
SMS wishes to make clear that, of the two redundancies reported in last month's IT Input, only one was in the UK. The other was in Ireland. The company emphasises that it is not reducing its NHS marketing activities.
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In brief: Nicola Oldmeadow
A sentence of two years probation on bogus nurse Nicola Oldmeadow was too small a penalty to deter others 'wanting to con their way into nursing', said the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. Ms Oldmeadow worked for a string of nursing homes and agencies using the ...
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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association has called for 'ultimate responsibility' for health and safety in the NHS to rest with the NHS Executive, rather than trust and health authority boards. The call is part of a 10point charter issued at the BMA's annual representative meeting.
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In brief: Private finance initiative
Two out of three Labour MPs believe the private finance initiative will cost more than a publicly funded hospital building programme, Unison has claimed. It said a survey of 100 'old and new' Labour MPs found that just under half thought PFI would worsen NHS staff pay and conditions.
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In brief: GP co-operatives
Measures to control demand for services provided by GP co-operatives will be needed to stop the rota commitments of members rising, says a report from the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.