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A pilot version of the National Electronic Library for Health was launched at the NHS Information Authority's first conference in Birmingham, with three floors of virtual information including national guidelines, the full Cochrane Library and virtual libraries on specific conditions. A fourth floor for patients was originally envisaged, but this ...
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Remembering the people who matter
BOOKS : 'I need to be me' By Elizabeth Barnett Jessica Kingsley 224 pages £14. 95
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To the letter
Internet messaging has taken off, but the NHS faces problems with the pace of change. Jane Dudman explains the differences between old and new systems
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Stars and gripes
The knives are already out in some quarters for American Beverly Malone, who beat post of RCN general secretary.
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NHS net's future role up for grabs
The NHS will not be able to meet the requirements of the NHS plan with a private IT network guarded by 'barbed wire boundaries', according to the NHS Information Authority's new head of access services.
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Size is not everything
Are the new health authorities coming through this week likely to be better and beefier - or just bigger and harder to manage? Ann McGauran reports
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spotlight on. . . e-procurement
Companies are vying with each other to offer eprocurement solutions to the NHS, ahead of the publication of a national e-procurement strategy.
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DoH struggles to find formula for traffic-light fund
The Department of Health is struggling to come up with meaningful measures for allowing access to the £250m performance fund and introducing the traffic-light bandings of trusts and health authorities this summer.
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Days like this
Selling surplus buildings. . . Reducing phone bills. . . Explosion of bureaucracy as management jobs increase. . . Nurse grading appeals. . .
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Short cuts
Budget warning follows latest NICE drug approvals The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has approved the use of orlistat for obesity and pioglitazone for type-2 diabetes by the NHS in England and Wales. Orlistat may be prescribed to clinically obese adults who also have another serious illness such as high ...
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The cruellest month
April will see the expansion of primary care trusts, heralding a shower of mergers across trusts and primary care groups. But That is not all: also on the agenda are a new concentration of acute trusts and the conversion of many GPs to personal medical se
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the young people's health congress
Catching them early: the young people's health congress, involving more than 100 youngsters from around Scotland, took part in a mock health debate in the Scottish Parliament.
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Confed sighs as election salvo hits out at 'interfering managers'
Manager bashing has made its first appearance of the general election campaign, with a Conservative Party leaflet attacking Labour over 'interfering'NHS managers.