All News articles – Page 1772
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Round and round in circles
comment: Cyclical reform is all very well - but watch out for that back wheel coming off
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Paper chase
news focus: Is the Health Reform Bill a case of ill-conceived legislation catching up with ministerial initiatives? And will what is there pull together the loose ends? Tash Shifrin reports
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Change the record
emergency admissions: You might think You have heard it all before on rising emergency admissions.But Neil Pettinger argues that once short-stay admissions are taken into account, the figures are not so bad. It is the NHS's recording methods that are wron
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PRIMARY CARE
Winner: North Bradford primary care trust The project was started to improve primary care within the PCT and to improve access to secondary and intermediate services for local people. A number of projects are taking place at various points along the patient pathway to manage capacity and demand.
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IMPROVING CARE WITH e-TECHNOLOGY
ECMScopyright started in 1997 in response to increasing pressure within the acute sector. It refers patients who live in clearly defined geographic areas between two or more hospitals to the site experiencing least pressure. It is accessible 24 hours a day via a call centre and the Internet.
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How the Mid-Sussex food mountain did battle with plucky little Blears
Here is a tale of two citizens, of courtesy and discourtesy, on which I stumbled during the week. Since this column believes in being cheerful whenever possible - a small contribution to NHS morale - let us start with the better angel of our nature, as Abraham Lincoln once put ...
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Electric avenue
A pioneering computer system hopes to take some of the paper and pain out of the referral process.
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One into two doesn't always go
commentRisks and price of failure for the first franchise remain worryingly high