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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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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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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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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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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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The worst times are over. . .
. . . but the challenge begins for the new president of the managers' organisation, the IHM. Claire Laurent reports
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in person
Dr Julie Hollyman is chief executive designate of the new West London Mental Health trust, which will come into effect next April. She is currently chief executive of Broadmoor Hospital Authority, which will merge with Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health trust to form the new organisaton.
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WEB WATCH
We all love protocols and guidelines. They're so New NHS, and they provide the perfect defence when something goes wrong. Now, thanks to the publishers of those old treeware-based Guidelines and Guidelines in Practice, you can consult them without ever having to visit the hospital library.
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PFI pioneer builds up backlog of 3,000 'unreported'x-rays
The country's first fully operational private finance initiative hospital has amassed a backlog of about 3,000 'unreported' x-rays since its official opening in April.
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Anti-poverty policies may save 10,000 lives
More than 10,000 premature deaths per year will be saved if the government persists with policies to combat poverty and reduce health inequalities, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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'Tidy up' blamed for IHM's missing 1,500
The Institute of Healthcare Management has admitted to having just 8,500 members - up to 1,500 fewer than was claimed when it was formed in October last year.
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£70m earmarked to treat dangerous disorders
The Home Office is putting £70m behind a threeyear programme of pilot projects for treating people with dangerous severe personality disorder.
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British 'think welfare state will perish by 2050'
People in Britain expect the welfare state to disappear over the next 50 years, according to a MORI survey for right-wing think-tank the Adam Smith Institute.
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24 reach shortlist for HSJ management awards night
Twenty-four entries in this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have reached the shortlist.
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One in three physiotherapists comes from abroad
A report from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has found that one in three physiotherapists entering the UK labour market comes from overseas, with Australia, South Africa and New Zealand the main sources. Most enter the UK for short periods and work in temporary positions in the NHS. CSP chief ...