All News articles – Page 1991
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In brief: Essex Rivers Healthcare trust
Essex Rivers Healthcare trust saw work start this week on an £890,000 scheme to expand and modernise the accident and emergency department of Colchester General Hospital. Almost £600,000 will come from the government's modernisation fund, although the trust is still trying to secure 'a larger contribution'from this.
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In brief: Unison workers
A poll of 650 readers of the Dudley and Stourbridge News attracted 80 per cent support for Unison workers holding their fourth strike in six weeks against a private finance initiative hospital rebuilding project in Dudley.
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Bring on the clowns
In the beginning was the administrator: born to regulate the NHS and check that intended actions matched written policies, using not judgement but the rule book. The service was over-regulated and under-scrutinised: once the rules had been met, little was done to check that progress matched intended aims - especially ...
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Building insights into good value
Total facilities management By Brian Atkin and Adrian Brooks Blackwell Science 192 pages £29. 50 paperback
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Campaign launched to put patients centre-stage
A campaign has been launched, led by the Long-Term Medical Conditions Alliance, to put patients centre-stage in the New NHS. People's Voice for Health (pv4h) argues that the NHS plan was 'a step in the right direction'. But it now wants a commitment to a comprehensive service, involving the people ...
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Cancelled ops suggestwinterwoes
Figures showing a big jump in cancelled operations this year suggest that managers will struggle to comply with ministerial orders to keep them to a minimum this winter.
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Changing rooms
Transferring medical patients to outlying wards causes disruption to both staff and patients and is a poor way of relieving pressure on beds. Lesley Lack and Joy Warren report
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Group claims inroads on improvements to hospital
The East London Communities Organisation has claimed an 'important step forward' in securing better services at Newham General Hospital. Following a meeting to launch a report on the state of the hospital, it said managers had promised changes to the way food was heated and serviced in the hospital, with ...
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Contractors criticised on records
Financial controls over central finance services contracted out by the Public Health Laboratory Service broke down in 1998-99, the National Audit Office has found.
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A sorry tale of crying wolf which will haunt Labour
Using the NHS to end the fuel crisis will do little to woo back voters
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Days like this
Staff increment proposal . . . 'presumptuous'staff ads. . . Clarke says watershed ahead. . .
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Dear Mel. . .
In HSJ of 27 July, a woman wrote in to 'Dear Mel' to say that her hospital social club had been used on one occasion by women for a hen night (with male strippers) and by men (probably with female strippers) on another. Why is it, then, 'a blast' for ...
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'Extra resources needed' to meet future demands on mental health
An interim strategy examining how the NHS can build a mental health workforce to meet the demands of the national service framework and NHS plan says extra resources will still be needed.
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Where men are men and women don't get a look-in
The rise and fall of modern medicine By James Le Fanu Abacus 490 pages £9. 99 paperback
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Fast and loose
As the third wave of PMS pilots gets on its way, doctors'leaders are complaining that their advice has not been heeded in drafting the new contracts. Ann McGauran reports