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Tony Blair has famously pledged to bring health spending up to European levels. But have the better resources put healthcare on the Continent in a different league to the UK's? And, ask John Appleby and Sean Boyle, even if comparable funding were delivere
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monitor
Monitor has remained fairly silent on the topic of international terrorism, feeling, unusually, somewhat superfluous to the debate. But this week the GP press made Monitor realise that HSJ is letting down its readers by failing to examine its stories in the light of world events. GP magazine showed how ...
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A study on ambulance response times has found that 59 per cent of people using the 999 service in East Anglia over-estimated the time they actually waited for an emergency ambulance. Three thousand patients, carers and relatives were interviewed by East Anglian Ambulance trust and Anglia Polytechnic University. Only 17 ...
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in person
Dallas Ariotti, currently director of clinical governance and information for University Hospital Birmingham trust, has been appointed to a new post as director of performance at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital trust. A former nurse, Ms Ariotti's previous roles have included that of principal adviser to the health minister in ...
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Investigation launched after elderly deaths
An investigation into the care of elderly people at Gosport War Memorial Hospital has been launched by the Commission for Health Improvement following the deaths of two patients in 1998.
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Back to basics
comment: IT and nurse practitioners can play a key role in getting trolley waits down