All articles by MARK CRAIL – Page 2

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-07-06T00:00:00Z

    One of the advantages of signing up as a Roman legionary was access to a better quality of medical care than was generally available to those in civilian life. fter all, there was not much point having the most fearsome armies in the ancient world if your troops were too ...

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-06-29T00:00:00Z

    So you think your job is tough. How would you cope if you were thrown in at the deep end as chief executive of a trust facing a £10m deficit, stroppy doctors who will have you thrown out the door if you interfere in their restrictive practices, and staff who ...

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Remember Alasdair Liddell? He jacked in his job as planning director at the NHS Executive to go off and work for a dot. com. If you're wondering what he's up to these days, he's a director of iMPOWER, 'the provider of choice for online solutions to enable the citizen, entrepreneur ...

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    A researcher posing as a middle-aged man who was already taking drugs for a heart condition found few difficulties in obtaining Viagra from one UK-based company as part of a recent Health Which? investigation into online medical sites.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-06-01T00:00:00Z

    You will be pleased to hear that the European Commission has clinical trials in its sites. Among other things, it wants to ensure that people involved in multi-centre trials are not subject to disproportionate risk, and that their treatment is properly assessed by an ethics committee before it gets the ...

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Do police surgeons go on those murder mystery weekends they have at country house hotels?

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    What a bunch of clever clogs they are down at the Department of Health.NHSnet fell over, companies worldwide had to close down their computer systems, and even the US National Security Agency suffered a security breach.But apparently the DoH had no problems at all with the 'love bug'.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    How would you like to die? Comedian Stephen Fry came up with the definitive answer in one of those Q&A columns that litter the Sunday papers:

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Cast your mind back to those early months of the new year when the early dawn brought with it a crisp coldness that misted the breath. Across the stillness of the lake, two boats are approaching.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Given the pressure to publish, under which people in higher education labour these days, it is surprising how long it has taken most university departments to see their own websites as a means of disseminating the vast quantities of research and policy work they churn out.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Number 1604 has straight black hair and brown eyes. A student nurse, he claims to be outgoing and, at times, funny.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    After one of the particularly entertaining scandals which afflicted the NHS in the early 1990s, the police were keen to talk over a few things with one former senior regional health authority manager. Unfortunately, it turned out to be more difficult than they had first thought.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    If you've delivered on waiting lists, brought your organisation back into financial balance and generally not managed to mislay too many patients on the way, you may feel that in this new golden era of NHS funding your job is secure.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Now that medical science can add 12 months to life expectancy every year and sustain that rate of progress, the potential for immortality arrives. It is an intriguing, if unlikely, prospect - the stuff of science fiction.But could it ever happen?

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    What do doctors get up to when no-one's looking? What do they wear beneath their trousers? It is in fearless search of the answers to these questions and more that Webwatch sets off this week for the darkest regions of Doctors.net.uk - a closed community for those initiated into the ...

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-16T00:00:00Z

    'It's the biggest job in London. You choose who gets it, ' run the huge advertisements cluttering up the capital's billboards and bus stops. It is the job of the metropolis' first directly elected mayor - and, with due apologies to the vast majority of readers living outside the circle ...

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Whether the money to fund it comes from the inform, educate or entertain aspect of the television licence fee may be a matter for debate, but the BBC this week launched its largest health-related campaign to date - urging all you smokers, drinkers, gluttons and downright drug abusers to 'kick ...

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Five years have passed since the then Conservative government asked the Clinical Standards Advisory Group to review services for children with cleft lip and palate, and two years have gone by since it reported back. But progress to date on putting its sweeping proposals for consolidation and reform into practice ...

  • News

    WEBWATCH

    2000-02-24T00:00:00Z

    Are you a leader or just a manager - and how do you know? The people who publish the Harvard Business Review may have the answer, thanks to their interactive 'test your management IQ' questionnaire.