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Carry that weight
From April, chief executives will be responsible to government for clinical services in their trust. What will this new burden mean? Barbara Millar canvasses the opinions of senior managers
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Carry that weight
From April, chief executives will be responsible to government for clinical services in their trust. What will this new burden mean? Barbara Millar canvasses the opinions of senior managers
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Hospital embraces clinical care
SEMA has launched a hospital information system that it claims will eventually support clinical care as well as patient administration systems.
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Campaigners slam detention orders
Proposals to lock up 'dangerous personality disordered individuals' indefinitely - even if they have not committed a crime - have angered mental health experts and human rights campaigners.
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Julian Nettel: 'The full story of Bristol has yet to emerge'
Concept and effect: 'The concept is a good one. But the name masks an almost endless series of questions that will only be answered as we all explore its meaning over time. As for its effect, the scary thing is that no one really knows the outcome of this as ...
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In brief
MPs from all three major parties have written an open letter to junior health minister John Hutton expressing concern that the government may discourage NHS funding of beta interferon. They want the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to draw up multiple sclerosis treatment guidelines 'as a matter of urgency'.
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Health minister John Denham has ordered a three-month public consultation on proposals to merge Hull and Holderness Community Health trust and East Yorkshire Community Healthcare trust. Meanwhile, ministers have approved the merger of Bedford and Shires Health and Care trust with South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare trust on 1 April. Durham ...
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'Almost all' NHS organisations met last year's 31 December deadline for safeguarding date-sensitive computers against the millennium bug, according to the NHS Executive. But the Executive is anticipating a drop in the number of trusts reporting 'satisfactory' or 'good' progress due to tougher human resources and emergency planning targets. Public ...
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East Anglian Ambulance trust has ordered £420,000 worth of telephone and radio communications equipment from Securicor for its regional control centre in Norwich. The contract is the first phase of a £2m programme and includes three extra transmitters. In the next stage, after April, all the trust's ambulances will be ...
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Doctors button up as wind of change blows through
Revalidation is in their own interests, as well as their patients'
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Louise Boden: 'It is a big sea change - right, but difficult'
Concept: 'I am delighted about clinical governance. It is long overdue. Relationships will be much stronger. It is going to make it necessary for there to be much more dialogue than may have been the case in some places.'
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Final bids invited for NHS Direct
The NHS Executive has invited bids for the third and final waves of NHS Direct, due to go live in December this year and autumn 2000.
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Bells ring as NHS Direct contracts go to HBOC
Four more NHS Direct contracts, worth a total of £2.9m, have gone to market leader HBOC.
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Stop me if you've heard these before
Fifty years of the National Health Service Continuities and discontinuities in health policy Edited by Robert Skelton and Valerie Williamson University of Brighton 136 pages £12