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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Key points
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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Key points
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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'Shaking off the poor law': the report's recommendations
The Royal Commission on Long-Term Care calls for a 'new contract between the individual and the state'. Chair Sir Stewart Sutherland said it was time for care of elderly people to 'to shake off its 'poor law' past and become part of a modern Britain'.
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Welsh NHS stocktake is a surprise to managers
Managers have been baffled by the announcement of a major 'stocktake' of the NHS in Wales.
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monitor
It was fluffy bunnies at the local animal sanctuary (Monitor, 18 February). But now Monitor can reveal the real John Hutton. He is born to be mild. Our man in the waterproofs and trilby crash helmet was ushered into the junior health minister's presence last week to hear about government ...
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The public has a part to play in NHS rationing
In your recent news focus ('Arousing debate', page 12-13, 4 February) about the government's plans to limit prescribing of Viagra, I read with much interest Professor Ruth Chambers' comments that health secretary Frank Dobson 'fell at the first hurdle...' because 'if rationing is to be effective, you have to carry ...