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Clarity begins at home
Presenting health service information in the language ordinary people speak and listening to public feedback will do much to improve communication, says Hilary Spiers reports
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Key Points
The NHS's failure to use plain English is a long-standing and widely acknowledged problem.
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The home team
A trust's reorganisation of mental health services for elderly people led to a dramatic decrease in
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Key Points
Reorganising a mental health service for elderly people to ensure most care can be given in the client's home has led to a dramatic decrease in admissions.
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REFERENCES
1 Goudie F, Stokes G. The Community Assessment Project. Unpublished report for Coventry Health Authority, 1990.
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IN BRIEF
A report of an inquiry into allegations that senior managers at Tayside health board made 'irregular and possibly unlawful payments' of more than pounds200,000 has been passed to the Procurator Fiscal and the Crown Office. They are expected to decide within two weeks whether to start legal proceedings against individuals. ...
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Expert tells GPs to recruit high-paid chiefs for PCGs
GPs must recruit high-paid, high-powered chief executives to run primary care groups or watch them founder, a top health policy analyst warned last week.
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Officials accused over complaint
Two Scottish trust officials have been accused of pressurising a patient to withdraw a complaint of sexual malpractice against a consultant gynaecologist.
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Police surgeon service needs 'urgent' updating
The Audit Commission has called for 'urgent modernisation' of the police surgeon service.
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London Ambulance suspends two managers after sackings tribunal
London Ambulance Service trust has suspended two managers following an industrial tribunal finding in favour of two workers sacked after a damning report by the managers into their conduct.
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Health secretary Frank Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson, addressing the annual dinner of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee this week, was apparently stung by criticism by one of the guests that he was boring. The committee named West Sussex health authority non-executive Knighton Berry as the culprit. He was unavailable for comment as the ...
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Scots doctors divided on centralisation
Scottish doctors' views about whether services should be concentrated into bigger hospitals vary according to the type of hospital they work in and where they are based.
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DoH alert failed to halt fatal op
An 11th- hour intervention by the Department of Health failed to stop Bristol heart surgeons carrying out a fatal operation on an 18-month- old boy.
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Has Labour been caught red-handed?
According to the Conservative Party trust board appointments show evidence of 'Labour gerrymandering'.
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The bat tles of Bottomley
Love her or loathe her, Virginia Bottomley was a woman with crusading zeal. And, as Patrick Butler discovered, she still is
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The Bottomley Years
As health minister from 1989 to 1992, and then health secretary from 1992 to 1995, Virginia Bottomley's years at the Department of Health saw massive change. Among the highlights were...
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Friendly society Does NAFP chair Rhidian Morris's exaltation to fundholders to 'start making these reforms work for you' herald a change of heart towards Labour policy? Mark Crail reports
Fundholders' leader Rhidian Morris last week urged his members to throw off their 'depression' over the abolition of fundholding and 'start making these reforms work for you'.
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Cutting a figure
On Friday and Saturday nights, Birmingham sees a vast influx of young people into the thriving clubs and pubs of the redeveloped city centre.