All News articles – Page 1998
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In Brief: Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority is overseeing consultation on the creation of two primary care trusts for East Hampshire and Portsmouth City, the second of which would involve changes to current primary care group boundaries to align the PCT with local authority boundaries.
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In Brief: Asset management system
Harlequin Software Consultants, providers of financial systems to over 80 trusts, have launched an asset management system to add to their accounts receivable, cashiers, charitable funds and patients' money. It allows users to keep track of all capital assets held within the trust, log all movements, view a history, run ...
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Short Cuts: 'One in three' in rural areas experienced poverty
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report has concluded that one in three people in rural areas experienced poverty at some time between 1990 and 1996, but the problem was masked by 'apparent affluence', making social exclusion 'harder to address'. It says increasing gentrification in the countryside and policies to cut down ...
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In Brief: need for collaborative approaches
A procurement review of NHS IT has stressed the need for collaborative approaches and agreed national standards.
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Ambulance staff get better links
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance trust has agreed a contract with NTL for installation and maintenance of an advanced communications network.
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Review for NI acute services
An independent review of acute hospital services in Northern Ireland is underway as part of a plan to develop health and personal social services published this week.
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Trust attacked by GMC for lack of action in Neale case
The president of the General Medical Council has strongly criticised managers in Northallerton for failing to take much earlier action against gynaecologist Richard Neale, who was struck off the medical register last week.
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'Shocked' CHCs bite back in row over abolition
Patient watchdogs have attacked the government's NHS plan, warning it will reduce public monitoring of the NHS despite its supposed 'patient focus'.
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Short Cuts: Call for GPs to abandon 'traditional role'
The Office of Health Economics has published a call for GPs to abandon much of their traditional role and become 'general contractors for care', steering patients through the health system in much the same way as a general building contractor steers a building project through its various stages. Professor Gordon ...
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Short Cuts: Ambulance services in London falter on 999 calls
London Ambulance Service trust's performance has dipped again.During June, when Euro 2000 added to demand, ambulances reached 35 per cent of urgent 999 calls within eight minutes, against a target of 55 per cent, and 82 per cent of calls within 14 minutes, against a target of 95 per cent.The ...
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What seems to be the trouble?
TO The rise of the salaried GP threatens the national contract and the red book. Should we care, ask Richard Lewis and Steve Gillam
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Recovery positions
The General Medical Council is under attack but, Seamus Ward reports, its rearguard action is well underway
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monitor
Management consultancy is a stressful game - and between Powerpoint presentations and trips to the service station to get more 'business cards' printed there's always a spot of Countdown to keep the grey cells ticking over. Top marks, then, to Crew Services, who promise to take the mystique out of ...
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Role model
Samantha Wilkinson, a year nine student at the Dixons city technology college in Bradford, investigates a Bart Simpson model designed as part of a project to help children understand asthma.