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Monitor
Monitor is delighted to bring news, not so much from the cutting edge as the ready-sliced front line of hospital catering: NHS Supplies has signed the 'first ever national contract for prepared sandwiches'. The health service spends £8m to £10m a year on its bagels, baps and bread rolls, and ...
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Unfortunate Manor
Manor House Hospital's close union links allowed it to stay independent when the NHS was formed. Now it may close. Barbara Millar reports
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Loot is not the only route
'There is a risk that the case for pay increases will be accepted uncritically. What is needed is better management of human resources'
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Key points
Health authorities are likely to emerge as the poor relations in the current NHS reorganisation, just as they did following the 1990 reforms.
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Scary inaccuracy
In his frighteningly inaccurate portrayal of public health doctors, Steve Ainsworth refers to 'large numbers of full-time medics... so beloved by health authorities'. Authorities with that view no longer exist, if they ever did. Many have few, but very hard working, public health physicians providing effective medical and public health ...
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How is it treated?
Antipsychotic drugs have been used to treat schizophrenia since the 1950s. The older drugs, such as chlorpromazine and haloperidol, relieve the 'positive' symptoms but are less effective at controlling the 'negative' ones. Patients may become resistant to treatment and/or experience movement problems (extra-pyramidal effects). However, some can be injected as ...
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New smear test hope
Scientists have developed a smear test which could end the scandals that have plagued the cervical cancer screening programme.
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Home service
Winter pressure on hospital beds can be reduced by providing emergency care in patients' own homes. Bronwyn Croxson and colleagues explain
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What can go wrong?
Wound complications, post-operative pain and recurrence are the main problems associated with groin hernia repair. As with other laparoscopic surgery, there have been reports of major internal damage associated with keyhole hernia operations (eg: perforated intestine, haemorrhage and nerve damage).
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Panel games
The system of assessing people for long-term care homes is being subverted for financial reasons - and elderly people are suffering, says Tom Moody
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The workers' friend
Manor House Healthcare can trace its roots back to September 1914, when a hospital was established in northern France to care for soldiers injured in the First World War.
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The way forward: proposed 'improvements' to PFI procurement
A halving of trusts' PFI procurement costs (from 3 or 4 to 2 per cent of capital cost) and the time from when a project is first advertised to financial close (from an average of three years to 18 months).
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Licensing flaws
There is a lack of incentive for firms or hospitals to change an unsatisfactory status quo when it comes to unlicensed drug use in children,
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Private eye
The government has been coy about releasing its long-awaited review of the private finance initiative. Ann Dix reveals what is in it
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Tough targets to take PFI drive forward
The government is set to impose tough new measures to determine the progress of the private finance initiative in the the NHS, according to a confidential document seen by HSJ.
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Double negative: a mother's story
Ruth Davies is a lecturer in nursing studies at the University of Wales, and her son was 41st on the list for clozapine when Cardiff Community trust was operating its limited-numbers policy. The trust has now revised its policy, and her son has had his medication switched to the drug.