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The future on a shoe-string
If you earn your living telling people that computerising the NHS is an expensive and near-impossible business, don't visit Highland trust at Inverness. The shock could be too great.
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Finding their feet
Shaky beginnings maybe, but the Sure Start scheme is a sure-fire success with local people. Claire Laurent reports
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Facts at their fingertips
The latest IT strategy has been consolidated in the NHS plan, as Jane Dudman reports
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Keeping 'em keen?
Are primary care professionals suffering from post-NHS plan tension? Health minister John Denham warned members of the NHS Alliance about this new syndrome. Ann McGauran reports
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England posts homecare deficit
The amount of homecare purchased by English local authorities has exceeded the amount directly provided by them for the first time, according to analysts Laing and Buisson.
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Days like this
The internal market reforms are being discredited by the breakneck speed of their implementation, says King's Fund College director Gordon Best. He told HSJ that in 20 years he had 'never before seen such intense top-down political pressure. Honest dissent is now categorised as opposition'. He added: 'I know from ...
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A cultural flaw in the plan
Slow progress of quality reforms exposes the NHS plan's major weakness
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Remedy for overspending crisis may pile extra pressure on NHS
Action to tackle a financial crisis in social services could put further pressure on the NHS, which is already facing major bed blocking problems in the South East of England.
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Nurse roster contract
A consortium of five trusts in London has awarded HMT Systems the contract to supply the RosterPro nurse rostering system.
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Cloud on the silver lining
The brighter outlook for those diagnosed with HIV is putting a financial strain on long-term support services. Laura Donnelly reports on how they are coping
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Wales freezes prescription charges
Prescription charges in Wales are to be frozen, with free medicines for people under-25 from April, Welsh finance minister Edwina Hart has announced.
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Moment of madness ends cash injection triumph
As I write, they are discussing rail regulation, in the wake of the Hatfield crash, on Radio 4.But that was last week's disaster. A few minutes earlier they had been talking about this week's disaster: the renewed controversy over BSE triggered by the Phillips report, by the fresh scare in ...
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People 'unable to pay more for elderly care'
A leading think-tank has cast doubt on the government's plans to push people into taking out secondary pensions and insurance to fund longterm care.
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Primary care chiefs say pivotal problem in sector is low morale
Primary care leaders have warned ministers that they will need to provide more money and tackle low morale as part of a full-scale review of the primary care sector.
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Cancel that taxi, it's NHSnet
In 1992, we were promised that all NHS organisations would be communicating across NHSnet by 1996.In 1998, we were promised that 100 per cent of computerised GPs would be on the net by the end of 1999.We have just been promised 95 per cent by 2001 and 100 per cent ...