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Stainspotting: the patient's perspective
When someone describes a toilet as being like the one in the film Trainspotting you know It is bad - but it is especially shocking to find that the toilet is in a hospital.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Peter Homa Job: Director, Commission for Health Improvement Style: Gentle academic type, more like your hospital chaplain than snarling, biting Chris Woodhead, the abrasive former Ofsted chief, with whom he is most frequently compared and contrasted. Joined only by HSJ editor Peter Davies in maintaining a Dobbo-era beard, while ...
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From pillar to post
A troubled health authority told to radically rethink management and accountability issues is losing its chief. She will be a hard act to follow, says Alison Moore
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Pillow talk
The Patient Power initiative will make life easier for patients - though at a cost - with a bedside TV and phone and potentially the Internet. Seamus Ward reports
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Programme of success
As with many of the other trusts that have installed bedside TV and phone units, Leicester Royal Infirmary reports some initial opposition to the charges. But Anne MacGregor, the trust's public relations manager, says it is now well-received and the trust and Patientline help patients who cannot afford the service.
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CHCs struggling to cope in countdown to abolition
Patients may be left in the lurch as complaints services begin to fall apart ahead of the planned formal abolition of community health councils in 2002.
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Struck-off doctors accidentally listed on website
A website which claimed to be a guide to good doctors included two who had been struck off last year, and also wrongly described a third, according to the BMA News Review. The Good Doctor site, whose major shareholder is Alliance Unichem Group, included disgraced gynaecologist Richard Neale, who worked ...
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Gin and bear it: upbeat in the face of adversity
Alan Randall from Eastbourne Hospitals trust was the only chief executive to speak to HSJ on the record about the demands of his job. He is surprisingly upbeat about working in a role which is both 'knackering and exhilarating'.
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Aid boost for tribunal claimants
Health boards in Scotland should brace themselves for more employment tribunal claims - and more successful ones.
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Five angles on catching a killer
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HAs in deprived areas will lose extra millions in funding revamp
Health authorities in some of the most deprived areas in the country have expressed serious concerns that a new method of allocating inequalities payments has deprived them of millions of pounds of extra funding.
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Conservatives attack latest DoH waiting-list claims
The number of patients waiting for an NHS operation fell by 3,600 during November, according to the Department of Health. The total number of patients waiting in England stood at 156,960 - 137,000 fewer than March 1997.
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Stiff warning to the minister as he runs into trouble with bill stickers
In their first week back at Westminster in 2001 MPs spent 10 hours of prime time discussing the NHS, mostly on the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill. Yet I doubt if any of their words, wise or foolish, will have the same impact as that shocking ...
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BMA fears bill could thwart even distribution of GPs
Clauses in the Health and Social Care Bill could lead to an uneven distribution of family doctors, warns the British Medical Association. Clause 17 abolishes the medical practices committee, which has always controlled the distribution of GPs in England and Wales. 'Abolition of the committee, devolving its functions to individual ...
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Gold blend
Kathy Doran's mix of civil service and NHS experience should see her refining 'the art of the possible' in her new job as NHS director of primary care.Alison Moore reports
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LGA steps up campaign for an equal voice on care trust boards
The Local Government Association is calling for membership of care trust boards to be based on a principle of equal representation for health and local government.