All News articles – Page 1903
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Socket to them
The NHS does an outstanding job making artificial eyes for patients who need them. But, as Laura Donnelly discovered, There is a lot more to the service than that
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The Sheffield story
Four rehabilitation resource centres in Sheffield, one for each primary care group area, will eventually offer different aspects of rehabilitation to older people. Resource centre project manager Gill Greenwood says: 'We are developing different things at different times. 'Eventually each will offer a rehabilitation wing, a hospital discharge wing, a ...
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Winter pressures
Over the winter there was only one story to be written about the NHS - why is not there a winter crisis? The latest report from the winter and emergency services team (WEST) confirms part of the answer - no influenza.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: John Appleby Job: Health systems programme director, King's Fund Style: Everyone's fave economist - except Number 10's, perhaps. His 'precision'analysis showed up the flaws in Tony Blair's pledge - sorry, aspiration - to raise the share of GDP spent on health to EU levels, and was apparently seen as ...
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The British Medical Association is to meet health minister John Denham in an attempt to make progress in the deadlocked negotiations over the introduction of annual appraisals for GPs. The appraisal scheme - pledged in the NHS plan to start this month - is now scheduled to begin during the ...
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Senior managers'pay
Pay rises for senior managers, including performance-related pay, must not exceed 3. 7 per cent of the pay bill for this group in any organisation this year, NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp announced last week.
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We have waited too long for an outpatient shake-out
Primary care must take the strain in a modern health service
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Independence way
Intermediate care has been redefined and given a new emphasis - as well as new money. But the model being introduced has had little evaluation and may produce no added benefits to patients, says Claire Laurent
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How the teams work
If police, magistrates and probation services feel a person has a mental disorder they call in a team from South Essex Mental Health and Community Care trust.
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Troubled finance round triggers joint search for fairer process
Department of Health officials are planning to attend a joint meeting of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and NHS Confederation in June to discuss how to improve the process of agreeing service and financial frameworks across the NHS.
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Down but not out
Outpatient clinics are out-of-date and much of their function could occur in primary care, says the NHS Confederation. But will not some clinics always be needed? Mark Gould examines the arguments
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Dear Mel. . .
What is a glass ceiling ? I seem to remember someone else asking you this some time ago but I've forgotten the answer.
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National database to log NHS errors
The Department of Health has announced the creation of an independent body to run a national database logging all 'failures, mistakes, errors and near misses' in the delivery of NHS healthcare.
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Control freaks in the firing line
After years of denigrating the public sector's fatalism and caution - in large part features arising from successive governments' dismissal of it - there are faint glimmers that this government is considering a different approach.
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Outsiders to shake up complacent DoH
The Department of Health could be in line for the most far-reaching shake-up of its existence, with outside organisations invited to feed into its internal review.
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Coming clean
The number of 'red'dirty hospitals has fallen after being named and shamed, but those in trouble still get the headlines, writes Laura Donnelly