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Research aims to define equity and where the worst inequities apply
It is interesting to read of progress with health improvement initiatives and health action zones.
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Patients sent to private hospital face ops after eye injection error
An independent inquiry has been set up to investigate how 19 patients came to be injected with a potentially blinding solution at a private hospital as part of a blitz on NHS waiting lists.
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Advice from rich man in Roller is not welcome
Don't trust a man who drives a Roller to advise how to make a Morris Minor go faster. Roy Lilley (letters, 13 May) has ideas which are both good and original, 'but those which are good are not original, and those which are original are not good'.
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Short cuts HAs' reviews of acute services point to cost-cutting
Three-quarters of health authorities in England and Wales have undertaken a recent review of acute services without official instruction from the Department of Health, according to an unpublished NHS Support Federation survey of directors of public health. Only 10 per cent of HAs carrying out a review had a budget ...
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Short cuts Multiple sclerosis charity wants NICE action on drug
The Multiple Sclerosis Society is calling for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to look at the provision of beta interferon to ensure it is 'available equitably to those patients whose consultants believe they will benefit from it'. In an adjournment debate in the House of Commons, MP John Bercow ...
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Not as bad as it looks: the accounts
At first sight, the confederation's accounts look disastrous: turnover appears to have plummeted, with management costs soaring as virtually all other activity comes to a halt (see table, below).
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Only 60 new jobs as counter-fraud unit starts
I read with interest your news story 'Counter-fraud teams bring hundreds of jobs' (news, page 5, 29 April).
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Rating of IT arrangements (August to October 1998)
Interviewees were asked to rate IT arrangements using a 1-5 scale.
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13th hospital deal signed
A deal giving the go-ahead for a £67m, 347-bed hospital for Bishop Auckland, County Durham, has been signed at 10 Downing Street. It will be the 13th major hospital built under the PFI scheme.
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Tarantino
Tarantino sat in the corner of Ardent's office while the American strategist and marketeer completed his daily routine of 200 step-ups. The Yale man was sweating and puffing in a skimpy vest emblazoned with Yo! Notre D! and a pair of positively pornographic running shorts. Tarantino smiled weakly.
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'Tremendous resiliance': settling in
The Red Road flats, in the north of Glasgow, stand in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.
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Triage in practice
Receptionists diverted appropriate calls to the triage nurse, while identifying any very urgent cases who could not wait in a queue.