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The position of large teaching hospitals in the NHS is being challenged by changing patterns of medical education and the expansion of services offered by acute hospitals.
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A survey of 30 trusts in the West Midlands, conducted last summer, found only four ready to implement a plan for evidence-based medicine and clinical governance.
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The new insurance pool: what it will include
In August last year, then health minister Alan Milburn announced that from this April English trusts would no longer be allowed to buy their non-clinical insurance on the open market. They would join a new insurance pool, to be administered by the NHS Litigation Authority, the body that looks after ...
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A prescription for improvement
The National Prescribing Centre's GP prescribing support document recommended several improvements to prescribing in the new NHS:
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High hopes:
Colin Brown, a junior member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, leads a team putting up bird boxes at a Wolverhampton hospital.
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Mergers prompt finance warning
Health service managers in Scotland have been warned to keep tight control of their finances in the face of trust mergers or suffer the chaos that engulfed local authorities.
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Doncaster races into first place on two fronts
At the risk of being a spoilsport, I would like to offer counter- claims to two 'firsts' you reported (news, pages 4 and 5, 11 February).
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Senior doctors needed on the spot
David Lawrence and colleagues should be congratulated on their careful analysis of the management of emergency hospital admissions ('Over the threshold', pages 26-28, 11 February). Their findings make clear that increasing the number of available hospital beds is not always the solution to current difficulties, and that insufficient attention has ...
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Report finds misuse of district nursing services
One in 10 referrals to district nursing services could be inappropriate, according to an Audit Commission report.
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Sir William Macpherson's definition of institutional racism
'The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racial stereotyping.'
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