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Eye opener
One trust has streamlined its referral system for cataract operations - and reduced waiting times dramatically. Bill Stevenson and Pauline Neal report
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Hospital keeps family scheme
A Scottish hospital is pressing ahead with plans to send patients with learning difficulties to live with staff despite allegations of misconduct and maltreatment of residents.
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Fast reactor
No-nonsense, straight-talking action man Mike Deegan has two months to solve the problem of how to improve the NHS. Lynn Eaton gets her stopwatch out
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Whistleblower grievances open to public
A new route has opened up for journalists keen to sniff out stories about what is going on in the nation's hospitals.
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NI winter services 'grossly underfunded'
Northern Ireland's health and social services were 'challenged as never before' last winter, the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has admitted.
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Private sector may strip NHS of staff
The private sector competes with the NHS and cannot expand without stripping it of staff, resources and patients, according to the King's Fund.
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Midwives' push for normality 'under threat'
Fear of litigation has brought about increasing medicalisation of maternity services, demoralising staff and reducing women's choice, midwives have claimed.
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monitor
Week in, week out, Monitor distorts the charming foibles of the NHS into something tawdry. Cheap digs at bureaucracy's inability to use the humble apostrophe correctly, relentless double entendres and a near obsession with the oversights of Britain's hardest working PRs. Smutty jokes about German professors with rude names getting ...
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Sit up, take notice
A survey of 5,000 patients at a Scottish trust shows hospital experience is often uncomfortable, unco-ordinated, lacking privacy, alienating, noisy. Pat Straw and colleagues report
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Variations on a team
A 24-hour interdisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation of patients has reduced lengths of stay and cut patient complaints to zero.Penny Spreadbury and Kay Riley report
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Short Cuts: Wales procurement strategy aimed at saving £80m
Welsh Assembly finance secretary Edwina Hart has announced a review of public sector purchasing policies, with the aim of saving £80m over three years. The review will take four months and lead to a procurement strategy for the public sector across Wales.Ms Hart said: 'I regard this review as an ...
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Short Cuts: Virus forces trust to put 200 operations on hold
York Health Services trust has been forced to postpone 200 non-urgent operations following an outbreak of infection. More than 20 patients and a dozen staff were affected by the Norwalk virus, which closed six wards at York District Hospital to new admissions. Trust deputy chief executive George Wood said the ...