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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 ...
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Chief and deputy suspended after waiting-list confusion
The chief executive of Plymouth Hospitals trust and his deputy have been suspended after an investigation into waiting lists.
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Ambulance chief says extra cash is for 'failure to change'
'Maverick' ambulance chief executive Roger Thayne has attacked the government for 'rewarding the reluctance of the service to change' - weeks after receiving official recognition for his 'pioneering' work to cut emergency response times.
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Cancer centre roof collapse closes beds
A leaking roof at a regional cancer centre forced the closure of 15 out of 60 beds last week and led to the suspension of 20 patient treatments.
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Let's stat at the very beginning
Statistical analysis in primary care Edited by Nigel Mathers, Martin Williams and Beverley Hancock Radcliffe Medical Press 113 pages £15.95
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Bordering on the unsatisfactory
Public health policies in the European Union Edited by Walter Holland and Elias Mossialos Ashgate 398 pages £50
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Breathe easy
As the four key confidential enquiries into patient deaths come under the wing of NICE, Thelma Agnew wonders whether they will take on a new spirit of openness
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Merger talk for primary care rivals
The election of a new chair for the National Association of Primary Care could herald merger talks with the association's historic rival, the NHS Alliance.