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Fund urges realism on revamped charter
The Patient's Charter is 'flawed and constraining', and the government should consider carefully what it aims to achieve with a replacement, a King's Fund report has concluded.
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Report urges caution on revamped charter
The patient's charter is 'flawed and constraining' and the government should consider carefully what it aims to achieve with a replacement, a King's Fund report has concluded.
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Short cuts Scottish residential care still moving to community
Scottish office statistics published last week show a continued move away from hospital to community-based residential care. The number of places for geriatric assessment and long-stay care, people with learning disabilities, mental health patients and psychogeriatric patients in NHS hospitals decreased by 1,500 in 1997 to 21,000, while the number ...
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IT bug delays continue
A significant proportion of NHS organisations are still behind schedule with their year 2000 computer compliance programmes, according to the latest quarterly report from trusts and health authorities.
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Bridge over troubled waters
Relations between the NHS and the local council in Solihull were difficult - but the borough now has a joint public health director. Laura Donnelly reports
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Head to come This blurb
All leave is hereby cancelled, Territorial Army and Red Cross members are urged to contact their organisations, triage centres are to be set up at known trouble spots, and routine work will be wound down to cope with an anticipated three or fourfold increase in casualties. As the millennium approaches, ...
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Short cuts Widdecombe makes waves over Blair 'turbulence'
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe has accused prime minister Tony Blair of breaking a pre-election promise to managers that Labour would not cause major upheavals in the NHS. In a debate on the Queen's speech, she said the government's health proposals would cause 'top to bottom turbulence in our health ...
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The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill,
The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Bill, designed to make it easier for hospitals to recover charges for treating road accident victims from insurance companies, has been published. It would also abolish the rarely collected £21.30 emergency treatment fee and replace other levies with a £354 charge for accident and emergency ...
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Therapeutic communities offer a philosophy for those with untreatable behavioural problems
In response to Dr Griffiths' letter on treating personality disorder (12 November), it is all too easy to blame politicians.
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Short cuts Scope backs disablement services authority call
One of the UK's largest disability organisations has backed a disability consortium calling for the government to establish a disablement services authority. Scope has supported a campaign run by emPOWER, which says an authority would 'address significant and expensive variations in the quality and distribution of NHS disablement services', such ...
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'A sad attitude to part-time workers'
Introducing more flexible work arrangements is recognised as an important step to tackle recruitment and retention problems.
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Racist attack leaves GP shaken
Sajal Sengupta is 60 and a GP in Ferndale, Mid Glamorgan. His story is typical of many Asian doctors who arrived in Britain as part of the
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Police arrest six in trust fraud probe as chair quits and chief takes leave
The chair of a mental health services trust has resigned, the chief executive has gone on indefinite leave, and six other people have been arrested and bailed as part of a police fraud investigation.
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Short cuts Complaints system tender winners announced
The NHS Executive has announced that the tender for the contract to evaluate the NHS complaints procedure has been won by the London Health and Economics Consortium (part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Public Attitude Surveys Ltd and the King's Fund. The research will look at ...
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Altered States
Finance managers who went on a study tour to the US say primary care groups can learn from moves away from market criteria in contract setting. Mark Crail reports
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Working time directive We fear agencies will use hours rule to clock up higher charges
Shouldn't the rates go down?
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Ambulance response time probe ordered after staff allegations
An investigation is under way into the performance of East Anglian Ambulance trust.
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Report identifies 'bottlenecks' in Scottish A&E
Recommendations to streamline the admission and discharge of emergency patients were made this week by the Accounts Commission for Scotland.