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Older Monitor readers may remember the relaxing sight of the potter's wheel which was shown on the BBC between programmes in the old black and white days. It would have been less relaxing perhaps if the potter had been working on a commission by Orkney health board. For Scotland's smallest ...
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Knock knock
Healthcare assistants may be making headway in their battle against the 'second-class'stigma - and that could mean them finally winning RCN membership. Thelma Agnew reports
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Modernisers are just the usual suspects
The NHS modernisation board seems, as the DoH admits, to consist largely of 'the people you would expect'. But, asks Claire Laurent, can they be truly independent? Why the overpowering emphasis on acute hospital issues? And what happened to partnership wi
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Towards the ideal
Thirty years ago when I was a student of healthcare organisation we were taught that the ideal healthcare system in the world was the NHS.
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For good measure
Integrated care pathways are gaining prominence nationally, not least as a now-recognised precursor of clinical governance. In 1997 Dorset health authority sponsored Dorset Healthcare trust to begin a personalised care management development programme centred on the development of integrated care pathways. We feel that this approach in mental health is ...
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DoH rips up rules on paperwork
GP paperwork will be 'slashed' under new guidelines which mean doctors will no longer have to keep paper records of information stored on computers.
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Foolish gamble would signal decline of NHS
Shadow chancellor Michael Portillo confirmed this week - if any confirmation were needed - that the NHS will play a pivotal role in the next election campaign. The Conservatives would top Labour's unprecedented health spending bonanza, he pledged. Clearly healthcare's propaganda value is now at an all-time premium. But the ...
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Dear Mel. . .
I watched the prime minister on television at the Labour conference. What does he mean when he talks about 'larger roles for nurses'? Isn't this just another way of diluting professional input and getting nurses to do even more?
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Days like this
Half the population will have private medical insurance by the year 2000 compared with the current 12 per cent, actuary George Orros has predicted. He claims this will happen even without tax incentives, but would depend on the industry developing innovative schemes for treatment by GPs and hospital doctors below ...
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N. Ireland to get nurse consultants
Nurse consultant posts have been introduced to Northern Ireland by health minister Bairbre de Brun.
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Nurse consultant posts unveiled in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has introduced nurse consultant posts. Health and social services boards put forward 27 proposals, of which eight were selected by a taskforce set up in October last year. Each nurse consultant will spend at least half their time on clinical work. They will ...
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RCN picks independent consultant as president
Independent consultant Roswyn Hakesly-Brown has been elected president of the Royal College of Nursing. Ms Hakesly-Brown is a member of the union's national forum co-ordinating committee and a clinical governance fellow at the West Midlands Partnership. She will begin a two-year term of office after the RCN's annual general meeting ...