All News articles – Page 1944
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Watching brief shows its age
Observing organisations Anxiety, defence and culture in healthcare Edited by RD Hinshelwood and W Skogstad Routledge 175 pages £15.99
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£500m deal for phones and TVs
Seven companies have been awarded full or provisional licences to provide the NHS with over 150,000 bedside TV and phone systems in a contract which could be worth up to £500m.
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WEB WATCH
This is the very last Webwatch.When the column started in September 1996, Internet access was a rarity. Few people had seen the worldwide web, let alone used it for work. Most of us had trouble seeing its relevance. Now we are promised wired fridges that order the groceries and let ...
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Patient proposals questioned
The NHS Confederation has cast doubt over key planks of the government's proposals for patient involvement in the health service.
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Overview but no plan
Health Care UK Autumn 2000 The King's Fund Review of Health Policy Edited by John Appleby and Anthony Harrison King's Fund 72 pages £9.99
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Modern times
It was a year of grand plans and private gestures. Mark Crail on how the millennium bugged the NHS
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Some like it hotter
Extremes of cold and heat have a deleterious effect on people's health, but climate change may bring healthier winters and more sickly summers. Dominique Florin takes the temperature
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Jingle hells?
Being hooked up to the hospital radio station was once considered worse than being tied to an IV drip, but a renaissance in broadcast services may have patients reaching for the headphones. Janet Snell tunes in
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Mental health white paper will target patient rights
The long-awaited white paper on the Mental Health Act, due to be published on 19 December, is likely to signal a significant improvement in patients' rights - including better access to an advocate.
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Health inequalities show no sign of levelling off
Although disadvantaged families in Britain are benefiting from rising educational standards in schools and falling levels of unemployment, there has been no corresponding reduction in health inequalities, according to a report by the New Policy Institute published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report, which compiles information from 50 indicators, ...
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Is housing too hot to handle?
There is surely a limit to the extra responsibilities the NHS can take on
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Moderniser Page faces tribunal showdown
A clinical director of Northumbria Healthcare trust, whose chief executive, Sue Page, is a member of the NHS modernisation board, has resigned and is taking the trust to an employment tribunal.
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What the spin doctor ordered
How do you cope if a sick celebrity lands in your hospital? Lynn Eaton finds out