All News articles – Page 2244

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    Modernising Social Services: the response

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Bill Kilgallon, chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust, and former chair of Leeds city council social services committee

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    monitor

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    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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    news

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has announced a £700,000 increase in funding for Scotland's air ambulance service. It will get two new helicopters and more paramedics to extend cover for remote and rural communities from 10 hours a day to 24.

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    'A quart in a pint pot': Nucleus reconsidered

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    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

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    in person

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Royal Berkshire Ambulance trust also has two new non-executive directors. They are Kenrick Sealy, a management consultant and nurse adviser, and Ian Mihell, a retired local authority manager.

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    Praise be

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Delegates at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual conference heard health minister Alan Milburn extol the virtues of finance staff, while emphasising their 'key role' in the year ahead. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    Taking the pressure off

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Ideas from the workshops

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    Putting it Right: the proposals

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    12 local hospitals providing day surgery, outpatient and diagnostic services, a local accident unit, telemedicine and GP beds.

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    Quasi for you

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    A revolution in social policy: quasi-market reforms in the 1990s Edited by Will Bartlett, Jenny Roberts and Julian Le Grand The Policy Press 341 pages £16.95

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    Reconfiguration to slash Welsh trusts

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Welsh secretary Alun Michael has announced that the number of Welsh trusts will be slashed from 26 to 16 on 1 April.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    As chair of the BSE Inquiry, Sir Nicholas Phillips has an illuminating final question he asks every official witness: 'As a result of what you have learned about BSE or CJD,' he inquires, 'have you stopped eating beef?' It may say something about former health ministers that so far none ...

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    Short cuts RCN secures £350,000 for nurse injured at work

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Nursing has secured an out of court settlement of £350,000 for former nurse biological science tutor Carole Webster, who was left disabled by an accident at St Bartholomew's and Princess Alexandra and Newham College of Nursing in 1993. A stiff door suddenly stopped, forcing her to ...

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    Box 1 Feature which predict repetition of self-harm Repetition

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    a history of self-harm prior to the current episode

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    Community midwives visit for the first 10 days after birth and then hand over to the health visitor for the notification visit (the only one for which they have legal right of entry).

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Community midwives visit for the first 10 days after birth and then hand over to the health visitor for the notification visit (the only one for which they have legal right of entry).

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    Box 2 - Aims of psychosocial assessment after deliberate self-harm

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    to identify factors associated with suicidal behaviour

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    Short cuts 24-hour helpline aims to fill housing advice gap

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of people every year suffer homelessness because they get bad advice or none at all, according to a report by Shelter based on a survey of more than 1,200 people. The report marks the launch today of Shelterline, a 24-hour housing helpline. It can be contacted on 0808-800 4000.

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    Box 3 - Main types of interventions evaluated in trials

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    brief psychological therapy (problem-solving therapy)

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    Dobson faces calls for 999 'tampering' inquiry

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    A government minister is calling for health secretary Frank Dobson to order an inquiry into allegations that a recording of a 999 call was tampered with.

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    Black cloud casts shadow over a toothless Acheson Report blows opportunity to create touchstone for measuring inequality

    1998-12-03T00:00:00Z

    If Sir Donald Acheson had been called on to write Labour's election manifesto before the 1997 campaign, it is certain that prime minister Tony Blair would have fought on a more radical and redistributive - perhaps even socialist - platform than anything put forward by his party for many years ...