All News articles – Page 2002
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News: Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust
All 3,000 staff at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust have been asked to 'tighten their belts' in a letter from chief executive Martin Smits as part of plans to reduce the trust's £3m overspend, which was £4m at the end of March.
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Points mean prizes
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has launched a scheme with high street retailer Boots to encourage people to become organ donors.
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News: Trust merge
North East Lincolnshire trust and Scunthorpe and Goole Hospitals trust have welcomed ministerial approval to merge the two organisations from 1 April next year.
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monitor
Monitor likes to think of itself as a benign force; the voice of humanity, perhaps, in an ever-changing world. Imagine the shock, then, to find that one of Monitor's treasured readers had taken offence at attempts to provide a wee bit of cheeky relief amid the torrents of national plannery. ...
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A new way through
How can primary care organisations and hospitals ensure effective integrated care? Donald Light and Michael Dixon suggest collaborative contracting is the key
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in person
Melvyn Ellis will be leaving Herefordshire health authority at the end of October to become chief executive of South Staffordshire health authority. Mr Ellis has worked in Herefordshire for almost five years and seen through a number of developments, including a new hospital for Hereford.
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Recipe for success
The trained nurse's teaching pack No 2 By Gill Early and Sarah Miller Age Concern 69 pages, 39 overhead transparencies £35+£1.99 p&p
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Talking it through
Nurses found a lot to like in the NHS plan, but. . . Laura Donnelly reports from a summer school for nurse leaders on the profession's worries for the future
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WEB WATCH
Three years ago, fewer than a million people in this country made use of the Internet - around 2 per cent of the population. Since then, growth has been dramatic: one estimate suggests nearly 20 million people are now online, and National Statistics says 6.5 million households in the UK ...
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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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 ...