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A special dispensation
A scheme allowing hospital patients to administer their own drugs has been well received and has brought substantial savings.
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Key points
A pilot scheme allowing hospital inpatients to take responsibility for administering their own drugs has been well received by patients and nurses.
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Five key questions are asked during the assessment
Does the patient want to take part in the self-medication scheme?
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References
1 Wood S et al. A self-medication scheme for elderly patients improves compliance with their medication regimes. International J of Pharmacy Practice 1992; 1: 240-1.
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When the going gets tough
One in four nurses will be eligible for retirement in the next two years and places out number applicants for nurse training.
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Takers and leavers - recruitment facts
The Royal College of Nursing puts current nurse turnover at 21 per cent (compared with 14 per cent in 1987 and 12 per cent in 1992).
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A question of image
The government is spending pounds1.2m on a national recruitment campaign aimed at 'blowing away the cobwebs of old-fashioned perceptions of nurses and midwives'. After phase one of 'Nursing, Have You Got What it Takes?' was launched at the start of last year there were 16,000 enquires about a nursing career, ...
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Employing an extra social worker at a 600-bed acute hospital over three winter months (January to March 1997) and extending the opening hours of the medical assessment unit reduced delayed discharges.
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When the going gets tough
Maintaining the supply of nurses has been compared to pouring water into a leaking bucket. The NHS furiously recruits more people so that it can keep on pouring, and now and again there are attempts to patch up the leak. Things improved during the first part of the 1990s, but ...
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Takers and leavers - recruitment facts
The Royal College of Nursing puts current nurse turnover at 21 per cent (compared with 14 per cent in 1987 and 12 per cent in 1992 )
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The image of nursing
The government is spending pounds1.2m on a national recruitment campaign aimed at 'blowing away the cobwebs of old-fashioned perceptions of nurses and midwives'. After phase one of 'Nursing, Have You Got What it Takes?' was launched at the start of last year there were 16,000 enquires about a nursing career, ...
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Spreading the load
One health authority assembled information for a medical staffing profile to help achieve a balance of supply and demand.
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Key Points
Medical workforce planning is a difficult and neglected area, but ignoring it will cost the NHS dear.
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REFERENCES
1 Feil E, Welch H, Fisher E. Why estimates of physician supply and requirements disagree. JAMA 1993; 269(20):2659-63.
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Better health authority understanding about medical training, the potential impact of recent changes on service quality and quantity, and their cost implications.
Improved communication between trusts, the HA and GP groups about pressures on medical workloads and the potential impact on services.
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news focus
It is rapidly becoming clear which bids for health action zone status have the best chance of success.
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There for the asking
Can the government’s planned annual surveys really measure patient satisfaction? And what format should the questionnaire take, ask Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith
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Key Points
The government's proposal to survey 100,000 patients a year in order to improve services faces