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...BUT HELP IS ON THE WAY WITH A NEW CENTRE FOR INFORMATION QUALITY...
As Hilary Spiers points out, supporting provision of clear information for patients is an important part of the patient partnership strategy. As part of that, the NHS Executive is funding the Centre for Health Information Quality.
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...AND WHILE IT'S A STRUGGLE AGAINST NOTIONS OF 'PROPER' WRITING...
Hilary Spiers poses an important question: why can those working in the NHS not use simple English? Over the past few years I have taught about 400 effective writing courses in various parts of the health service, and I am constantly having to fight the notion that anyone who uses ...
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...THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRUSTS TO RESEARCH BETTER COMMUNICATION
Your articles on communication and Jane Beenstock's feature ('In the clear', page 32, 12 February) are a timely reminder of the importance of this issue. There is far too little published work in this area.
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THERE IS A WAY BETWEEN DISTRICT GENERAL AND COTTAGE HOSPITAL...
I was interested to see the article on Kent and Canterbury Hospital (News, page 7, 26 February). Across the UK there are many proposals for reconfiguring acute services, and local communities are understandably concerned about the potential loss of their district general hospital. There are, however, successful and proven ways ...
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...BUT WE MUST EXPECT MAJOR CHANGES TO CREATE SOME LOCAL TENSION
As your news story and leader make clear, major reviews of hospital services do severely test the NHS's internal partnerships and do create tension between local NHS organisations.
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COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCILS STILL NEED TO RAISE THEIR POLITICAL PROFILE
I agree with Victoria West's letter (5 March). The Welsh white paper Putting Patients First, refers to community health councils a little more than the English version, but in no more positive terms.
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ORGANISING WORK TO KEEP STRESS AT BAY
Sue Parkyn-Smith of the Health and Safety Executive is right when she says ('Taking the strain', Special Report, 29 January) that it is how an organisation manages and how it uses staff - 'not too many or too few demands' - that have significant effects on stress and health at ...
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BY MATT MUIJEN Let's use it or lose it
What events in the 1990s will be considered significant when the history of mental healthcare is written? It is hard to tell because of so many false dawns. Responses to crises have often been little more than superficial public relations jobs coupled with a new tranche of guidance - some ...
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Headline to come after cartoon in position BY MICHAEL WHITE
By now, you've seen the colour of the chancellor's NHS money, heard all about Welfare to Work initiatives in the service, even seen pre-Budget photos of Uncle Gordon playing with the kids. Someone else's kids to be sure (dammit, it's still someone else's upbeat economy too: Ken Clarke's), but they're ...
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HA appoints public health director at last
A health authority without a public health director since 1995 has at last made an appointment.
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Managed Health Care By Ray Robinson and Andrea Steiner Open University Press 224 pages pounds50/pounds16.99
This excellent book summarises the literature on managed care, as it has been practised in the US, and attempts to extract results and conclusions that could be of benefit to the NHS. As the authors detail, this is a far more difficult project than it might seem at first.
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Our growing inequalities
THE PUBLIC HEALTH GREEN PAPER ACKNOWLEDGES THE LINK BETWEEN POVERTY AND ILL HEALTH - SO SHOULD WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION BE VIEWED AS A HEALTH TARGET FOR THE FUTURE WHITE PAPER, ASKS JOHN APPLEBY
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Barbara Kennedy
Barbara Kennedy (above), previously chief executive of Leicestershire Mental Health Service trust, has been appointed chief executive of North West Anglia Healthcare trust, where she first worked as a director in 1990.
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Harry Keen Pocket profile:
Genial academic medic and doughty campaigner. Distinguished career at St Mary's, Paddington, and Guy's hospitals. World expert
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Calling a bed a bed
When patients, carers and the secretary of state all plead for plain English why does the NHS insist on incomprehensible
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What they said - NHS gobbledygook
The most frequently quoted example came from the value-for-money unit of the NHS directorate at the Welsh Office. It described a bed as 'a device or arrangement that may be used to permit a patient to lie down when the need to do so is a consequence of the patient's ...
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Plain English Crystal Mark holders include:
Argyll and Bute trust, Central Middlesex Hospital trust, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Dumfries and Galloway health board, East and Midlothian trust, Fife health board, Gloucestershire Royal trust, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster health authority, Lifespan Healthcare trust (Cambridge), Borders General Hospital, Cental Manchester Healthcare trust, Down Lisburn Health and Social Services trust, ...