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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
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The great divide
New 'fast-track' ambulatory care centres that separate elective diagnosis and treatment from emergency work are part of the government's plans for spending private finance, alongside the building of new hospitals, writes Seamus Ward
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Delayed LIFT-off
The NHS plan has earmarked up to £1bn and set out ambitious targets for primary care premises. Yet a survey of GPs and managers gave it a vote of no-confidence. Ann Dix reports
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Teething problems as maverick MPs get stuck into fluoride debate
'Keep it in the family, I say, ' quipped Alan Milburn as he fielded a question from Ann Winterton the other day. The Conservative MP for Congleton has been campaigning to save the heart transplant centre at Wythenshawe, Manchester, and doing it, she revealed, with the support of the MP ...
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Days like this
Clinicians need to decide whether a treatment is 'worth having'before admitting patients on to a waiting list, NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol has urged. They should agree protocols to decide what treatment should be offered on the NHS and at what stage it should be available. 'Of course, such protocols ...
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Still counting: the 'no-blame'ethos
Northern and Yorkshire regional office recorded more serious incidents than any other region in 1998, Organisations with a Memory reveals.
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Directors of finance count cost
NHS finance directors are working an average of 12 hours a day, often six days a week. And an increasing number are taking on responsibility for other areas of work, according to a survey by the NHS organisation, Pay and Workforce Research.
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Cornwall: This is your pilot speaking
'It is been a problem here since about 1991, 'says Adrian Tyas, manager of operational services for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly health authority.
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Claim-spotter
What looks like the biggest fraud in NHS history was uncovered in a district audit office in Caernarfon. Audit manager Ian Hughes unravelled the story exclusively for Mark Gould
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Senior chief quits to escape NHS pressures
One of Scotland's most senior health service managers is the latest to quit the NHS front line in an attempt to get a better work-life balance.
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Helicopter clash chief under fire
The job of Mersey ambulance chief David Todhunter is hanging in the balance after his trust was forced to apologise to the family of a woman who died when her helicopter transfer was delayed because he became embroiled in a personal row.
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Golden Staph illnesses caused by resistant strains
Understanding a problem may help to solve it - but can also reveal it to be tougher than anticipated. So it is with Staphylococcus aureus, the Golden Staph: a never-ending headache for infection-control staff in hospitals, and responsible for the disruption caused by ward closures when it gets out of ...
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Deputy's suspension 'linked to court case'
The suspension of the deputy chief executive of Ashworth highsecurity hospital is understood to relate to a forthcoming court case involving a former senior manager at the hospital, according to HSJ sources.