All News articles – Page 1939
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Outpatient waiting
Understanding how the outpatient system interacts with the rest of the NHS is important - but assessing waiting-list performance is far from straightforward, writes John Appleby
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Time to talk one-stop shop
What happens at an organisation's front line can affect the entire way people perceive it. The problems are multiplied when a range of agencies are required to present a 'joined-up' face to consumers.
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Monitor has spent a happy week perusing the very best of those magazines which try to educate people of a ladylike persuasion on matters of health and beauty. Of course, beauty comes from within, as Mrs Monitor constantly reminds, while poking fondly at Monitor's cuddly exterior. Nonetheless, in the current ...
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One-stop management
For many trusts, outsourcing procurement will be driven by the need to meet the government's 3 per cent efficiency target but Milton Keynes General trust had other pressing concerns when it recently awarded a contract to Drager Medical to manage its electro-medical equipment procurement.
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Tragic irony
Is the murder of eight-year-old Anna Climbie a tragic one-off or proof that an overhaul of the child protection system is needed? Thelma Agnew reports on how opinions have been polarised
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Organ retention - NI inquiry
An investigation into the removal and retention of dead children's organs in Northern Ireland has been ordered by health minister Bairbre de Brun, following the revelation that over 350 organs had been kept by Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.
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In fine voice
A new report is claiming success with its methodology of using mental health service users as interviewers as well as interviewees. Claire Laurent reports
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Fancy that
The latest initiative to improve hospital food caught the headlines with its 'celeb chefs', but can it succeed where others haven't, asks Lyn Whitfield
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Framework is 'key' to end mental health gap
The government must develop a national mental health services framework to help the thousands of 16 to 25-year-olds being failed by provision each year, according to the Mental Health Foundation.
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Private sector 'Holy Grail of full employment'claim
Employment prospects in private healthcare should rise dramatically in the first quarter of this year, according to a Manpower quarterly survey. Both private and public healthcare employers expect to take on more staff but the private sector is 'more bullish', anticipating 45 per cent job gains, compared to 31 per ...
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Edgware probe sparks national guidance rejig
A government watchdog has called for changes to NHS Executive guidance in the wake of its investigation into the controversial hospital reconfiguration in Edgware.
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In a domestic vacuum?
A toilet like the one in the film Trainspotting was just one of the horrors flushed out by hospital cleanliness inspectors, but will government clean-up plans get to the root of the problem, asks Alison Moore
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'Deprived' HAs will not be 'stuck on red' as traffic light is tweaked
The controversial traffic-lights system for measuring performance will be adjusted to ensure that NHS organisations in deprived areas are not stuck on red, promises the Department of Health.
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Dear Mel. . .
I have to give a presentation to a group of nurses next week and they have specifically asked for an explanation of the Belbin technique. Can you tell me what it is?
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Days like this
Private hospitals have complained to the Department of Health that health authority managers are failing to consider them for contracts to provide services to NHS patients under the internal market reforms.The Independent Healthcare Association says its members are facing unfair discrimination, and claims that HA managers are interpreting the DoH's ...
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New inquiry to probe 'Labour PCT cronies'
The commissioner for public appointments is to investigate primary care trust board appointments, following renewed allegations that Labour is filling boards with its cronies.
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'Concordat'boom for private sector
The 'concordat' between the NHS and the independent healthcare sector has sparked a sharp rise in health service work contracted to private hospitals.