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Always read the label:
Always read the label: a patient gets to grips with half-a-dozen types of medication at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. It is breaking with 25 years of NHS operating procedure by allowing patients to take their own medicines in hospital instead of confiscating or destroying them on admission. ...
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Managers believe there are too many trusts
Most managers believe there are too many trusts and that services need to be reconfigured, a survey shows.
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IN BRIEF
Director-general of fair trading John Bridgeman has announced that he will ask the Restrictive Practices Court to overturn its 1970 decision allowing drug companies to fix the price of branded, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. The decision has angered drug companies and pharmacy pressure groups who claim the abolition of re-sale price maintenance ...
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Hospital project is 'proof' of new co-operation in NHS
An agreement between a health board and two trusts to build a new children's hospital in Scotland was hailed last week as proof of a new climate of co-operation in the NHS.
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Measures will help NHS fraud crack-down
Health authorities will be given access to GPs' accounts so they can investigate suspected fraud more easily, health minister Alan Milburn has announced.
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Angel and death
Angel and death: Marlene Dietrich, the German actress transformed into a screen icon in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, shows how smoking was once portrayed as the height of sophistication. The image comes from Cancer Wars, a four-part Channel 4 documentary starting on Sunday. The first programme focuses on ...
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How history repeats itself
The prime minister wants to see the NHS’s 50th anniversary marked with events throughout the country. Quite right too. But what a pity that so few staff feel they have much to celebrate. Despite the extra cash since Labour came to power, and the promise of more in 1998-99, the ...
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Clutching at Straws in the drugs debate BY MICHAEL WHITE
Thank you very much. And a Happy New Year to you, too. But, quite apart from the NHS's 50th birthday, how happy will 1998 be if we continue to make such a muddle of the rules by which we decide - as individuals and collectively - what we should eat, ...
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WEB WATCH
One hundred kilometres east of the killing fields of Kigali, a new community of 94 brick-built houses is taking shape in the green hills of Kibungo. Built by its inhabitants, many of whom returned to Rwanda only last year after fleeing the country's troubles, it is a model of good ...
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Ready, steady, go
Patients waiting to leave hospital take up beds needed by others. A discharge lounge where they can wait and be looked after has proved popular - and can lead to more efficient bed use and ambulance services. But some staff are wary.
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Taking a day off
One trust has reduced the median length of stay for emergency medical admissions from six to five days. Hugh Rayner shows how it was done
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Key Points
A trust, comprising two hospitals, has reduced the mean length of stay for acute medical admissions from 11.1 to 10.5 days and the median from six to five days, despite an increase in the number of these admissions.