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£630m set aside for winter care
The winter emergency services team is planning 40 visits to 'key health and social care communities' as part of plans aimed at averting the annual NHS 'winter crisis', junior health minister Gisela Stuart announced last week.
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Raising the stakes
Community consultation and stakeholder involvement in planning are key elements of the new management agenda for health authorities. PricewaterhouseCoopers carried out research with 25 HAs during January 2000 to gather comparative information on strategies and approaches to community consultation. Questionnaires were sent to the chief executives of 100 HAs in ...
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Planning for the unexpected
Did you take a book with you to read on holiday? For £15 you could have bought a hardback copy of the current best-selling thriller or a couple of good paperbacks to read on the plane.If you're a real masochist like me you might have recklessly blown your hardearned cash ...
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Target pressure for PMS pilots
Draft core contracts for future personal medical services pilots will require GPs to sign up to the NHS plan's targets for access to a primary care professional within 24 hours and to a GP within 48 hours by 2004.
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What the staff and patients think
Willie Reid (left), medical director, says the task has now changed from trying to convince clinicians that the PFI project would come to fruition, to trying to persuade them that the 30-year deal will work. The hospital is 'light years ahead of what we had before', he says. He is ...
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Take your partners
All over the country trusts are forming 30-year relationships with PFI partners - but the average marriage doesn't last this long. How can you be sure which consortium is: a) Right for you? b) Means what it says? c) Will stay faithful? Use John Kelly's ha
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Sounding the right note
The history of rock and roll is strewn with casualties: Jimi Hendrix choking on his own vomit, Elvis enjoying his last supper, the gunshots that ended the short lives of Kurt Cobain and John Lennon.
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Nervous tick
Health managers perceive CHI to be about punishment and censure, despite its protestations to the contrary. Mark Gould reports on a revealing HSJ survey
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Mortar mouth
The average house price in London is almost £200,000. The average newly qualified nurse working in the capital earns about £18,000. So the man charged with finding homes for up to 350,000 NHS staff who struggle to afford London prices will need to be better than average.
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The long march towards a PFI
1975 A plan to build a single-site hospital is conceived. For years the plan is shelved as health chiefs' hopes are repeatedly dashed.
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In the know
The increasing dependency of older people in residential homes will place a greater burden on nursing services. Training care staff is one way forward. Cathy Malone and Rona Mackenzie report
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Joined-up thinking
Most projects that aspire to pioneer status are happy to put forward one element of the new building as proof they are breaking the mould. However, a £3.8m scheme at Sedgley in the West Midlands claims no less than three ground-breaking developments.
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Needlestick injuries on the increase
Unison has called for the number of healthcare workers exposed to viruses such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV as a result of needlestick injuries to be monitored as part of its campaign for a ban on 'old-fashioned, unsafe needles' and the introduction of retractable needles or needles with ...
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Livingstone knocks lack of social housing at key site
London mayor Ken Livingstone has criticised a landmark development for failing to provide social housing. Mr Livingstone 'deplored' plans for the redevelopment of Battersea power station, which include 657 new flats. Last week, average house prices in London hit £200,000, and Mr Livingstone said the decision not to include social ...
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What the new hospital offers
The entrance to the new Cumberland Infirmary is bathed in light from a huge, etched glass panel above the doorway and from the transparent roof which stretches over the entire walkway, leading past day surgery, outpatients, A&E and the X-ray department. The bright and airy walkway is the 'backbone' of ...
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Pushing, pushing the point home
Social perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth for midwives, nurses and the caring professions By Julie Kent Open University Press 251 pages £16.99