All News articles – Page 2013
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Waite here
Terry Waite, author and envoy to the former archbishop of Canterbury, visited St Mary's Hospital in London to encourage staff and patients to take part in NHS census day last week. Behind him, George Thomas reads the form giving people the opportunity to send three ideas for improving the NHS ...
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Health of the station
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart opens a police base at Manor Hospital, Walsall. The base is designed to bring beat officers closer to the community and cut violence and aggression at the hospital. Chief executive John Rostill said people living around the site would welcome a more visible, uniformed police ...
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The short goodbye
You give 20 or more years of your life to the NHS and they give you a couple of hours to clear your desk. Janet Snell talks to some former chief executives who know how it feels
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Let's be friends
MODERNISING THE NHS In our second article on the government's modernisation teams for the NHS, we look at the issue of partnership. The brief: 'To make all parts of the health and social care system work better together and to ensure the right emphasis at
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Squaring up for a fight
Friction grew between doctors and ministers over NHS reform this week amid public outcry over the case of gynaecologist Rodney Ledward (see right).
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Events
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A sense of detachment
The dispersal of asylum seekers around the country is revealing disturbing gaps in continuity of care. Tash Shifrin reports
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Deacon gets tough on violent patients
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is planning to introduce regulations to stop violent patients attending their local GP surgery and force them to visit secure units for treatment.
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Days like this
Hospital building delays. . . impact of health cuts on social services. . . helicopter grounded. . . income generation schemes 'exaggerated'
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Great dames
Marie Stopes and Joan Collins, aka clinical nurse specialist Jan Saunders and senior manager Brenda Maddy, ride on a float organised by Beatrice maternity ward for Salisbury Hospital Carnival.
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Executive risks creating 'cowboy town' warning
A senior union leader has claimed that the Scottish Executive is in danger of 'creating a cowboy town with the Scottish health service: all front and no back'.
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Remote control
The revamp of junior doctors' employment structure, putting more emphasis on training when consultant numbers have not been increased, has lost sight of service needs, say Robert Elkeles and Richard Thompson
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Consuming passions
Experience of a walk-in centre brought home to Jenny Rogers the disdain with which the NHS often treats its customers. She says something momentous has to happen - before it's too late