All News articles – Page 2158
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Key points
The introduction of nurse telephone triage for patients requesting same- day attention in a GP practice has reduced the number of appointments and home visits for these patients. Patients welcome the opportunity to speak to a health professional when they telephone.
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Tuberculosis: still a serious public health issue
Having some family experience of tuberculosis, your article 'King's Evil reigns again' (news focus, page 14, 29 April) made chilling reading.
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Getting it together: lateral thinking
The majority of teams came from single organisations. But a lateral approach paid off for others.
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Hole time equivalent:
Hole time equivalent: one of a series of paintings by artist Figgy Fox under the title 'Welcome to my psychosis', now on show at the Bethlem Gallery, in the grounds of the Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham, Kent. Mr Fox has been receiving treatment for depression and psychosis since 1989. ...
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Dobson rebuffs private sector
Health secretary Frank Dobson has delivered a calculated snub to the independent healthcare sector by refusing to bring private hospitals under the NHS regulatory and quality standards umbrella.
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Reward points nomination delay
Scottish health unions have only just been asked to submit names to the panels which will decide on who will qualify for the discretionary points scheme, announced by Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith 14 months ago.
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Days like this
White paper funding... paring down the regions... Labour's plans for management... junior doctors' hours... public sector pay
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Date line: a guide to key legislation and guidance
1948 National Assistance Act section 21 sets out local authorities' duty to provide residential care for people in need.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
No fashionable organisation is complete these days without a website to call its own. So it is with the positively Blairite New Health Network, which, though not yet in cyberspace, certainly has something trundling towards the launch pad.
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Costs of the triage scheme
TAS nurse triage software: installation, training and full support and upgrades £9,400
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'Threat' to services in contractual switch
Acute and teaching hospitals face losing millions of pounds, putting services 'in danger', because of the switch to service agreements and out-of-area treatments, trust finance managers warned this week.