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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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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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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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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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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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monitor
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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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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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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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.