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Good practice: a sample of patients positive comments
Attitudes of medical staff I have nothing but praise for Mr I even saw him in the main hospital (after discharge) when I went for a blood test and he went out of his way to come and speak to me. He was really, really nice.
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MP's to investigate comprehensive spending review
The Commons Treasury select committee has announced an investigation into the governments comprehensive spending review, focusing on the accountability of the new cross-departmental studies that will form part of it. The Treasury has said that as part of the next review, 13 cross-cutting reviews will be carried out. They include ...
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Vote signals unity for Confederation
The NHS Confederation this week promised a year of real delivery and increasingly assertive political influence as it voted in a new unified constitution.
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Warning over cost variation
The publication of tables showing huge differences in the cost of hospital treatment has been greeted with some scepticism by senior managers.
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Days like this
Health authorities with severe cash problems are to be granted immunity from the government's demand that all districts balance their income and expenditure levels by April 1991. NHS finance director Sheila Masters said she expected the service's deficit to be £50m at the end of 1989-90, but was optimistic this ...
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Didn't they do well?
Knight: Professor George Alberti, president of the Royal College of Physicians, for services to diabetic medicine.
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Warning on disability discrimination
An out-of-court settlement by the large construction company, John Laing plc, is a salutary warning for employers of the dangers of rejecting job applicants on the basis of their mental health history, rather than current evidence of their ability to do the job.
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The ethics of healthcare rationing
Principles and practice By John Butler Cassell 248 pages £27.50
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Falklands help
Two NHS trusts will provide support to the Falkland Islands when military services are withdrawn as part of defence restructuring.
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Fallon fallout
The battering meted out to Ashworth Hospital by the Fallon inquiry may have led to other establishments facing tougher regimes, writes Laura Donnelly
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Flu, what a scorcher as Milburn feels the heat
Making my Sunday night HSJ calls, I was sort of delighted to read that Howard Stoate, the Labour GP who sits for Dartford, had stumbled on the same thought that I had. Namely that media disappointment that the millennium bug had not disrupted the world s computer systems transmuted into ...
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Fox floats prescription scheme
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox has unveiled a plan to allow patients whose conditions have not changed to collect repeat prescriptions from a pharmacist without seeing their GP .
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GADFLY
The Terminators shocks were rarely positive or enjoyable, and whether surprise or relief caused Ardent to spill his coffee down his shirt we will probably never know. Tarantino smiled. Oh yes, he'd long been one of Clays most fervent, nay enthusiastic, admirers. Greycoat hadn't liked him but well, things were ...
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The very rough guide
It may be a shadow of its early draft, but the new planning and priorities guidance is maintaining a rapid pace of change, writes Patrick Butler
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Managing mental health services
Open University Press By Amanda Reynolds and Graham Thornicroft 170 pages £16.99
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How was it for you?
Listening to the views of patients was the key to ensuring cancer services were sensitive and appropriate for one trust that surveyed patients and carers. Rosemary Williams reports
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How was it for you?
Greenwich Healthcare trust (London) In accident and emergency it was quite quiet [on new years eve]. At 1 1.55pm there were 36 policemen watching TV and about one patient.