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Looking for good information? Try the library
I was surprised to see no mention in your feature on clinical governance ('PA for the course', page 26, 11 March) of the importance of the library and information service in the hospital.
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Targeted team's help for homeless people
I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article on access to GP services ('Left out in the cold', page 23, 11 March). It is too easy, however, to blame GPs for failing to address the health needs of homeless people.
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Putting the initiatives in initiative-itis
A £1m budget for human resources 'beacons' of 'excellence in managing people' across the organisation. To reward 'positive and imaginative approaches' in areas including recruitment and retention, equality and training plans to support clinical governance. HR beacons will have to disseminate good practice.
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Inside stories
Parc prison, a privately run local prison with 800 inmates, has contracted out its healthcare to Bridgend and District trust since late 1997.
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'Nothing like it used to be'
Jenny Bond, the BBC's royal correspondent, has trailed many a royal visitor round various healthcare establishments. She believes the visits are useful. 'I have seen it all around the world,' she says. 'After they leave, the staff and patients' day is brightened and their spirits lifted.
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monitor
Monitor can report that it's New NHS, New Upholstery in Frank Dobson's Richmond House eyrie. Our interior decor correspondent called in recently to find the dull grey sofas of the Bottomley-Dorrell era swept away and replaced by a couple of homely burgundy settees. And at no extra cost, either. Turns ...
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Outside the NHS
BT: flat rate of £280 a day for staff on call on 31 December or 1 January plus £55 hourly bonuses, on top of existing bank holiday premiums.
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Secret service
The NHS Executive is to set up a special national authority for security and confidentiality, says its new head of information management and technology policy, Dr Peter Drury.
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Medical devices in users' homes fall through year 2000 loophole
Thousands of medical devices in patients' houses and nursing homes have slipped through a hole in the NHS Executive's year 2000 programme, it emerged last week.
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Commissioner for public appointments Did Sir Len ask the chairs about manipulation?
I was fascinated to read that Dame Rennie Fritchie has been appointed as commissioner for public appointments (news focus, page 14, 4 March).
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Short cuts Acheson praises government action on inequalities
The government has done 'far more than we ever dreamed of' to tackle inequalities in health, Sir Donald Acheson told HSJ this week. Sir Donald said he was 'amazed at how much work' the government had done in response to his Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, published six months ...
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Trusts disappear across UK
More than 100 trusts are affected by mergers taking place across the UK today.
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Waiting-list target hit a month ahead of schedule
The government's pledge to cut waiting lists to pre-election levels has been achieved a month early in England.
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Careering ahead:
Bharpur Singh Mudhuadia (left), Mandeep Singh and Jasmeet Saahney (right), from Hounslow Manor School, west London, read a careers pamphlet on medical physics at a Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust careers day.