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Cold remedies
As winter pressures begin to bite, one health authority is better able to cope, thanks to multi-agency workshops which also involved local elderly people.
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Mediation's time has come
Is there a message for the NHS in the agreement by 14 insurers in the professional indemnity field to use mediation rather than litigation to settle claims when possible?
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Country and western
Critical challenges for healthcare reform in Europe Edited by Richard Saltman, Josep Figueras and Constantino Sakellarides Open University Press 424 pages £19.99
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Trust faces pay-out for death of heart patient
Norfolk and Norwich Health Care trust faces a fine of more than £20,000 after admitting breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, causing the death of a patient.
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Why not stress the demands on managers?
I was surprised that the recent report from the Institute of Work Psychology was given such a low profile (News, page 3,
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A few points IHSM leaders forgot to mention
I must thank Institute of Health Services Management president Peter Homa and chair John Brunt for their reply (Letters, 19 November) to my letter
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Sorry, got to go... I've run out of working time
I received the NHS circular about the European working- time directive on Monday morning.
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From showpiece to shambles - St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight
The average hospital maintenance problem is likely to pale into insignificance compared with the latest catastrophe to hit the showpiece low-energy hospital on the Isle of Wight.
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Strategy 'schizophrenic' over mentally ill
Government attempts to satisfy 'middle England' and health service staff have led it to create a 'schizophrenic' mental health strategy, according to a leading policy analyst.
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Modernising Social Services: the response
Bill Kilgallon, chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust, and former chair of Leeds city council social services committee
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monitor
Even in the wonderful e-world of the NHS, technology can still go wrong. There was Big Al Langlands in Birmingham all set to deliver a Powerpoint presentation to the massed health authority and trust chairs when his laptop conked out. Not a bit dismayed, the resourceful Al had the NHS ...
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'A quart in a pint pot': Nucleus reconsidered
On the 1979 Man Alive programme, William Tatton-Brown voiced his opposition to the Nucleus building programme. 'The responsibility of standardising and committing the whole country to a single concept is far too great for anybody to carry,' he said.
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Research warns over PCG size
Primary care groups covering 100,000 patients may be too big to produce the loyalty and cohesion needed for an innovative, locally focused service, a report on a flagship total purchasing project has concluded.