All News articles – Page 1972
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The NHS plan envisages autonomy for primary care trusts and multiagency providers. But is the data available adequate for monitoring whether these agencies are operating according to the plan's principles for providing a public service?
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A long-day's journey into night
Personnel issues are dominated by the implications of the NHS plan. Delegates at AHHRM's annual conference thrashed out the crucial points. Ann McGauran reports from Dublin
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Give them a medal if they stick to poverty initiative
Preventing 10,000 premature deaths a year is surely an Olympian feat
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Scottish patients may get to see surgery mortality rates
Patients in Scotland could be given greater access to mortality rates for surgery teams under proposals to be put forward by consultants.
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Germ warfare
Public health professionals need to regain the public confidence lost in the BSE crisis. Claire Laurent reports
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'Patient flow' proposal for Wales
Acute general hospital services in Wales should in future be planned to match 'patient flows' rather than health authority and trust boundaries, according to the report of the acute services development group.
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PCT directorships - fantastic offer shoppers can refuse
Sheffield health authority has taken to the streets in search of non-executive directors for the city's new primary care trusts.
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Things can only get. . . different?
The Lib Dems are still keeping - a bit of - faith with Labour, and blame the Conservatives rather than Tony Blair for the NHS's problems. Lyn Whitfield reports from their Bournemouth conference
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Lassa fever: diagnosis in hours
Developments in molecular diagnostics led to a swift diagnosis of Lassa fever in a 52-year-old British aid worker in March. Treatment has to be within six days of onset if the prognosis is to be good, so speed of diagnosis is vital.
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NHS can deliver second term
Beware ever-increasing interest in its progress by anxious Blairites
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Delegation of Dudley strikers meets health minister
Health minister John Denham and NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates last week met a delegation of striking Unison members from Dudley Group of Hospitals trust. About 600 mainly ancillary workers have voted for a fifth strike - for 10 days from Monday - against their transfer ...
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The three degrees
As the submissions were handed in, health authority senior managers learnt that they can expect a 3. 25 per cent pay rise.
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Scots lead way on fluoride debate
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has announced a public consultation on putting fluoride into tap water.
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Days like this
The Department of Health has issued 'contradictory' regulations on the role of community health councils, CHCs claim. Though they now have the right to represent patients when family health services authorities hear complaints against GPs, rules issued last week say CHCs have 'no role in the relationship between a GP ...
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Super-aspirins: 'The same cost as M&S pay-offs'
Dr Boyle hinted that anti-clotting 'super-aspirins' could shortly be approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.