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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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Millennium offer snubbed by staff
Chief executives in health authorities and trusts across London joined forces this week to offer staff a £150 flat-rate bonus for working on millennium eve.
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monitor
It is Monitor's sad duty to report that Dobbo's personal enforcer has met with a little accident. Joe McCrea fell down a flight of restaurant steps and dislocated his shoulder so badly that he spent the rest of the evening learning about the vastly improved A&E services central London hospitals ...
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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.
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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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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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Short cuts HAS 2000 issues care standards for elderly people
The health advisory service HAS 2000 has launched five sets of care standards for frail elderly people and those with mental
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Ashworth agrees action plan but ducks key Fallon recommendation
Ashworth Hospital Authority has agreed plans to end the 'shocking' history of 'confusion, indecision, mismanagement and incompetence' identified by the Fallon inquiry.
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Short cuts BMA calls for action over shortage of obstetricians
The British Medical Association has renewed its call for the Department of Health to take 'immediate action' over a 'shortage' of consultant posts for trained obstetricians and gynaecologists. It says there will be about 500 doctors holding a certificate of specialist training by 2001, but only 50 consultant vacancies a ...