All News articles – Page 2094
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Just the ticket
Booking systems for hospital admission - to make it as easy as reserving an airline ticket - have improved services for patients and won staff and management approval, the national pilot programme shows. Philp Meredith and coleagues report.
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Man of the match
The post may not be without its problems, but the NHS s new deputy chief executive is widely viewed as an ideal partner for its boss, writes Kaye McIntosh
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Proposed or ongoing mergers
1 Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services trust and Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Montagu Hospital trust.
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monitor
As the dawn of the 21st century breaks, time for a special investigation into the mysteries of our cyber-web future. You can't stop progress, and Monitor has already done its bit to embrace global technocracy via the pages of the Innovations catalogue. A trawl through planet progress begins - naturally ...
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WEB WATCH
Staff appraisal, proclaimed management guru Tom Peters some time back in the last century, is the number one management problem in the US. 'It takes the average employee (manager or non-manager) six months to recover from it.' Anyone think that doesn't apply to the UK or to what we've seen ...
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Working wounded
A three-year project to tackle staff members health problems meant that one trust had to address organisational and personal conflicts, writes Morag Maddocks
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Extra £90m to ease generic drug costs
The government has performed a partial U-turn in its policy on dealing with the knock-on effects of the spiralling cost of generic drugs.
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Costs of overseas recruitment, 1998-99
Recruitment from Australia costs approximately £3,200 per nurse (where 40 nurses arrive). This includes the air fare of £800, which is paid for by the nurse but reimbursed by the trust if the nurse stays to the end of the contract. The agency fee includes a percentage of the salary.
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Health for some by 2000
Global From 1990 to 1997, the number of countries where life expectancy at birth is over 70 years has risen from 55 to 84; access to safe water has nearly doubled from 40 to 72 per cent; and infant mortality has fallen from 76 per 1,000 live births to 58. ...
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Abroad minded
The NHS will remain dependent on overseas nurses for many years and hospitals must ensure effective recruitment and retention. James Buchan explains
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Probe rules on injection accident
An independent inquiry has blamed a misunderstanding between Brighton Health Care trust and BUP A theatre nurses for an incident in which 19 patients were injected with a potentially blinding solution.
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Run that by me again: what you may have missed during the festive break
Health secretary Alan Milburn thanked NHS staff for being brilliant over the Christmas and millennium holidays. London Ambulance Service took 2,300 calls in the first six hours of the new year . Greater Manchester Ambulance Service said it had its busiest night ever , taking 1,200 calls in the 12 ...
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Cell out: the science of ageing
According to leading British gerontologist Professor Tom Kirkwood, ageing is probably due to the gradual and progressive accumulation of damage in the cells and tissues of our bodies - as opposed to a pre-programmed formula still preferred by some ageing specialists.
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GPs alienated by fast roll-out of NHS Direct
The rapid implementation of NHS Direct has alienated many GPs and may hinder its future development, according to a study of London s first two schemes.
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A millennium pat on the back
HSJ would like to start the new century by highlighting its part in a modest victory for the NHS, scored as the old century drew to a close. We refer to the government s announcement of an extra £90m allocated to the service for the remainder of the financial year ...
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Milburn makes early case for funds boost
Health secretary Alan Milburn has started bargaining for more money for the NHS ahead of this year s government-wide review of spending - but warned that any funds will be closely tied to performance targets.
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Still going strong: a century and not out
With 70,000 US centenarians today and some 800,000 predicted by 2050, it is no surprise that one of the most comprehensive research programmes into what makes a centenarian is being carried out in the US. The New England centenarian study is following the fortunes of centenarians living in eastern Massachusetts ...