All News articles – Page 1975
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What the staff and patients think
Willie Reid (left), medical director, says the task has now changed from trying to convince clinicians that the PFI project would come to fruition, to trying to persuade them that the 30-year deal will work. The hospital is 'light years ahead of what we had before', he says. He is ...
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Take your partners
All over the country trusts are forming 30-year relationships with PFI partners - but the average marriage doesn't last this long. How can you be sure which consortium is: a) Right for you? b) Means what it says? c) Will stay faithful? Use John Kelly's ha
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Sounding the right note
The history of rock and roll is strewn with casualties: Jimi Hendrix choking on his own vomit, Elvis enjoying his last supper, the gunshots that ended the short lives of Kurt Cobain and John Lennon.
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Nervous tick
Health managers perceive CHI to be about punishment and censure, despite its protestations to the contrary. Mark Gould reports on a revealing HSJ survey
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Mortar mouth
The average house price in London is almost £200,000. The average newly qualified nurse working in the capital earns about £18,000. So the man charged with finding homes for up to 350,000 NHS staff who struggle to afford London prices will need to be better than average.
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The long march towards a PFI
1975 A plan to build a single-site hospital is conceived. For years the plan is shelved as health chiefs' hopes are repeatedly dashed.
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In the know
The increasing dependency of older people in residential homes will place a greater burden on nursing services. Training care staff is one way forward. Cathy Malone and Rona Mackenzie report
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Joined-up thinking
Most projects that aspire to pioneer status are happy to put forward one element of the new building as proof they are breaking the mould. However, a £3.8m scheme at Sedgley in the West Midlands claims no less than three ground-breaking developments.
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Needlestick injuries on the increase
Unison has called for the number of healthcare workers exposed to viruses such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV as a result of needlestick injuries to be monitored as part of its campaign for a ban on 'old-fashioned, unsafe needles' and the introduction of retractable needles or needles with ...
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Livingstone knocks lack of social housing at key site
London mayor Ken Livingstone has criticised a landmark development for failing to provide social housing. Mr Livingstone 'deplored' plans for the redevelopment of Battersea power station, which include 657 new flats. Last week, average house prices in London hit £200,000, and Mr Livingstone said the decision not to include social ...
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What the new hospital offers
The entrance to the new Cumberland Infirmary is bathed in light from a huge, etched glass panel above the doorway and from the transparent roof which stretches over the entire walkway, leading past day surgery, outpatients, A&E and the X-ray department. The bright and airy walkway is the 'backbone' of ...
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Pushing, pushing the point home
Social perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth for midwives, nurses and the caring professions By Julie Kent Open University Press 251 pages £16.99
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How to win friends and influence them
Good nurses are born, not made - and they are born with an inferiority complex. Why this should be, no-one can tell. Everyone holds them in high esteem. . . everyone but other nurses. The way to get them to do what you want is to play on this insecurity ...
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Trust inspections will exact high toll, warns HSJ survey
Inspecting every NHS trust in the UK could cost nearly £15m and cause a significant increase in stress for all staff, according to an exclusive survey commissioned by HSJ and the Health Quality Service.
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Events
Conservative policy 3 October, Bournemouth The Social Market Foundation is organising an evening event on 'Conservative health policy: next for the NHS?'. Panellists are Conservative health spokesman Philip Hammond, Stephen Pollard, chief leader writer of the Daily Express, and Dr Tim Evans, executive director of the Independent Healthcare Association.
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Services 'will go down the tubes in NI if system is not improved'
Health provision will 'go down the tubes' in Northern Ireland unless a better system is set up, a leading doctor has warned.
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Dig that debate
The private finance initiative continues to enrage its critics. But its supporters claim their opposition is a relic of a former age. Lyn Whitfield wonders where the future lies
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Dear Mel. . .
What does 'phenomenological' mean ? I've heard lots of nurses use the term when they want to impress people, but when I ask them what it means they just look mysterious and walk away. I'm worried it might be a horrible disease I've got and they won't tell me - ...
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Days like this
London health authorities have resigned themselves to a new round of cuts in a last-ditch attempt to balance the books by April. A snapshot survey by HSJ revealed that cost-cutting would exacerbate the capital's bed shortage. One manager commented: 'The basic problem is there is not enough money to meet ...