All News articles – Page 1895
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PEAT practice
The 'traffic-light' inspections found problems not just with hospital cleanliness but issues such as parking and signage. Are they being tackled, asks Alison Moore
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The Department of Health aims to double the number of registered organ donors from 8 million to 16 million by 2010. A set of 'initial targets'out for wider consultation later this year also include increasing the kidney transplant rate by almost 100 per cent by 2005 and boosting heart and ...
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RISE IN TEEN SEX: Sex services cannot cope with demand! So boomed last week's Hackney Gazette, conjuring up images of exhausted managers unable to keep up with the voracious appetites of the young. Dully, though, the story turns out to be to do with the rising problem of teenage pregnancy. ...
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Wheels within wheels - the workings of NHS LIFT
The complex structure of the public-private company NHS LIFT became further confused this week when the Department of Health announced that it would form 'a joint-venture company, 'Natco', to deliver investment in the primary healthcare sector through NHS LIFT.
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Homing instincts
The housing czar is pulling out all the stops to provide more affordable rented accommodation for healthcare workers. But will it be enough, when people want to be home owners? Andrew Cole reports
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New leadership head to target stereotypes
The new head of the Leadership Centre for Health aims to 'break down the stereotypes' of different professional groups to link leadership development with improved patient care.
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Hazard warning
Risk matters in healthcare Communicating, explaining and managing risk By Kay Mohanna and Ruth Chambers Radcliffe Medical Press 114 pages £17. 95
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PALS will thrive in hard times
Most people, and certainly most journalists, assume that charities such as the College of Health and our national waiting list helpline (NWLH) love publicity. In theory, of course, we should because we can't help patients with problems unless they know we exist and we can't afford to advertise.
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Hackney marriage
Two health workers are out to unseat left-wing MP Diane Abbott. Mark Gould looks at the campaign issues
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Going public
From 'flower-power' to graphic design, health promotion to public health. . . Ann Dix charts a career that has been far from conventional in our new series on senior managers
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Let's hear it for frontline heroes
No, not GPs but all the others in the NHS who work without whinging
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On the record: four professionals speak out on the plan
Managers and doctors surveyed thought the government's targets were unachievable. Four leading primary care players give their views.
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When getting a life means getting out of the firing line
The NHS will lose more and more managers to the demands of the job
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Tenants extra
The need for affordable housing for key NHS workers has never been greater. Some trusts are trying to address the problem. Lynn Eaton reports
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The efficiency of waiting lists
'We have discovered that waiting lists to see hospital consultants are subject to the power laws of complexity. . . ' So begins a report in Nature (410: 652). For the odd reader who may, inexplicably, be unfamiliar with power laws in mathematics, they are used to describe the behaviour ...
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Group dynamics
Are primary care groups and trusts doing the best they can to involve patients and the public in planning health services? Timothy Milewa and Stephen Harrison conducted a survey to find out
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do not take it lying down
There is a general assumption that an 85 per cent occupancy rate represents the optimum use of NHS beds. But, says Rodney Jones, this could be the source of many a winter beds crisis