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Scottish ambulance service goes under spotlight
Scotland's ambulance service is to undertake the most extensive review of its operations in its 50-year history from now until next April. Beyond 2000 will examine non-emergency services and operations control rooms and evaluate a priority-based dispatch system. Ray Hepburn, project leader in charge of the priority dispatch system, said: ...
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All stressed up and nowhere to go?
Heavy workload is often cited as a major cause of dissatisfaction and stress among GPs.
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Funds of all knowledge
GPs and purchasing in the NHS: the internal market and beyond By Bernard Dowling Ashgate 276 pages £39.95
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Action teams to unveil first ideas
The government's modernisation action teams meet in London today to polish their ideas before presenting them to ministers in the next fortnight.
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Furious juniors threaten ballot on action against 'cruddy' sub-consultant scheme
Junior doctors have threatened industrial action against a proposed new sub-consultant specialist grade.
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A spanner in the works
A decade ago, the radical 'reengineering' of Leicester Royal Infirmary was steeped in controversy. But did the revolution ever happen? Peter Pallot reports
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monitor
Monitor readers paying close attention will shiver to hear the name Minette Marin. Just months ago, The Daily Telegraph's very own lady columnist revealed herself as the power behind that nice Mr Milburn's elbow. It was she, back in April, who first thought that national guidelines on hospital cleaning would ...
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Shop rejection hits hospital plan
Plans to build a £14.5m community hospital in Manchester have been set back by Manchester city council's rejection of a proposed supermarket next door.
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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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