All News articles – Page 2250

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    Starting up

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Creating a shared evidence centre is too big and complex a job to be done in the margins of people's time. You have to plan and resource it properly from the outset. The obvious people to control the project are those in the group responsible for the trust's clinical effectiveness ...

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    Room service

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    St Thomas' Hospital is replacing its manual archives with an electronic imaging system that saves space and time.

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    The rest is silence

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    The rest is silence

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    REFERENCES

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    1 Our Healthier Nation. The Stationery Office, 1998.

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    Do you Read me?

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The Read codes have been dogged by controversy. But the real question is whether they can be adopted across the NHS, says Mike Cross

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    Do you Read me?

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The Read codes have been dogged by controversy. But the real question is whether they can be adopted across the NHS, says Mike Cross Senior NHS officials are fighting to save what they see as a precious baby from being thrown out with some murky bathwater.

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    in person

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Alison Norman (above), director of primary care and executive director of nursing at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare trust, has been appointed president of the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.

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    where are they now?

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    No 78

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    where are they now?

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    No 78

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    The New NHS

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The New NHS demands that trusts will ensure that good practice, ideas and innovations, when they have been evaluated, are systematically disseminated within and outside the organisation, writes Jonathan Hazan. Trust chief executives will be made ultimately responsible for their quality of service. 'Clinical governance' is the buzz phrase.

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    Naughty, naughty, naughty

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Naughty, naughty, naughty: Sir Harry Secombe is surprised by Mr Punch at the Punch and Judy festival in Covent Garden, London. The former Goon was at the festival to launch an audio-cassette called Apple Punch, which he narrates. The story by Terry Pitts Fenby is based on the Punch and ...

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    Naughty, naughty, naughty

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Sir Harry Secombe is surprised by Mr Punch at the Punch and Judy festival in Covent Garden, London. The former Goon was at the festival to launch an audio-cassette called Apple Punch, which he narrates. The story by Terry Pitts Fenby is based on the Punch and Judy story and ...

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    Monitored

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    What could possibly be behind the Mirror's extraordinary front- page attack on Dobbo last week? You know the one: 'Embarrassed Mr Dobson? You should be bloody well ASHAMED.' Reliable sources suggest it is all to do with Mirror boss David Montgomery's desperate need to carve out a market position sufficiently ...

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    Monitored

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    What could possibly be behind the Mirror's extraordinary front- page attack on Dobbo last week? You know the one: 'Embarrassed Mr Dobson? You should be bloody well ASHAMED.' Reliable sources suggest it is all to do with Mirror boss David Montgomery's desperate need to carve out a market position sufficiently ...

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    Money matters

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

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    Money matters

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

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    The missing link

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Although primary care is the foundation of The New NHS, the government has erred in not linking this

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    Key Points

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    Experience from total purchasing sites suggests that commissioning mental health services in primary care will be difficult to achieve.

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    Key Points

    1998-05-28T00:00:00Z

    The government's strategy for public health may fail because of a lack of co-operation between organisations.