All News articles – Page 1992
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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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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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Target pressure for PMS pilots
Draft core contracts for future personal medical services pilots will require GPs to sign up to the NHS plan's targets for access to a primary care professional within 24 hours and to a GP within 48 hours by 2004.
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Planning for the unexpected
Did you take a book with you to read on holiday? For £15 you could have bought a hardback copy of the current best-selling thriller or a couple of good paperbacks to read on the plane.If you're a real masochist like me you might have recklessly blown your hardearned cash ...
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Raising the stakes
Community consultation and stakeholder involvement in planning are key elements of the new management agenda for health authorities. PricewaterhouseCoopers carried out research with 25 HAs during January 2000 to gather comparative information on strategies and approaches to community consultation. Questionnaires were sent to the chief executives of 100 HAs in ...
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1066 and all that
When King Harold got it in the eye, there was no anaesthetic, no blood transfusion - not even a pair of spectacles. A new chronology ofmedicine should add a little perspective to those with tension headaches. Lynne Greenwood reports
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Police reject leukaemia death protest against
Liberal Democrat MP and Isle of Wight GP Peter Brand is to face no further action over remarks he made in the House of Commons in January during a debate on the proposed Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill, which subsequently failed. Hampshire police received a complaint after Dr Brand ...
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Specialists to aid GPs with asylum seekers
Leicestershire health authority has promised to bring in a team of specialist nurses and link workers to help GPs cope with an influx of more than 400 asylum seekers, many with serious mental and physical illnesses.
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Service of all talents
Job opportunities in the health service for people with learning disabilities are growing - and proving beneficial to employer and employee, writes Harriet Gaze
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Health managers to allocate budgets for CJD care
Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson has advised health managers to use Health Act powers to create pooled budgets that can be 'activated when necessary' to care for Creutzfeldt Jakob disease sufferers. In guidance for healthcare workers on dealing with the disease, Professor Donaldson says patients with degenerative conditions, such ...
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Scots call for ban on amputations of healthy limbs
Scottish polticians have called on Scottish health minister Susan Deacon to initiate legislation preventing the amputation of healthy limbs anywhere in Scotland following an application by Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, to carry out the procedure at a private hospital. Mr Smith caused controversy earlier ...
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Beta interferon appeals flood in
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has received eight appeals against its decision on the use of beta interferon in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
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Firm under attack for costs will bid for TV and phone contract
One of the prime contenders for a multi-million-pound contract to provide a television and telephone at every NHS bedside has been criticised for the cost of the service already provided at some hospitals.
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Talks begin on body to scrutinise social care
The government has launched a consultation exercise on proposals to end the 'postcode lottery' of social care by creating a new body equivalent to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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Government gives go-ahead on 'Diane Blood' cases
The government has decided to allow a father's name to be recorded on a child's birth certificate when his sperm has been used after his death and to allow changes to be made retrospectively. This will allow Diane Blood, who fought for the right to use her dead husband's sperm ...