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Rewriting the ration book
The case of Jaymee Bowen, child B, attracted media interest in 1995 because it epitomised the challenge of health services rationing. In reality, the case was a good deal more complex, raising issues not only about the priority to be attached to expensive medical treatments, but also about whether doctors ...
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BY CHRIS HAM Rewriting the ration book
The case of Jaymee Bowen, child B, attracted media interest in 1995 because it epitomised the challenge of health services rationing. In reality, the case was a good deal more complex, raising issues not only about the priority to be attached to expensive medical treatments, but also about whether doctors ...
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Boateng bows to mental health pressure groups
Junior health minister Paul Boateng has pledged to publish the government's long-awaited mental health strategy 'in the summer' after lobbying from mental health pressure groups across the policy spectrum.
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NAO launches inquiry into crisis-hit blood service as chief gets the sack
The National Audit Office has launched an investigation into Britain's crisis-torn blood service.
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Langlands blames 'the way we were' for Kent cervical smear test scandal
NHS chief executive Alan Langlands confessed to feeling 'uncomfortable' when he was grilled by MPs last week on the performance of the beleaguered cervical screening programme.
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WHY, OH WHY, IS BART'S HOSPITAL TO BE NEEDLESSLY DOWN-SCALED?
Hearing hospital waiting lists are longer than ever, I am reminded that local pensioners are denied access to Bart's, which, though within walking distance, is standing largely unused.
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Calls to widen availability of cancer drug
Doctors and MPs have urged the government to extend the availability of a drug which lengthens the life expectancy of women with ovarian cancer.
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Searching for the assembly instructions
Primary care groups are like a piece of self-assembly furniture with lousy instructions admits Michael Dixon, the new chair of the PCG Alliance. Mark Gould reports
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Searching for the assembly instructions
Primary care groups are like a piece of self-assembly furniture with lousy instructions admits Michael Dixon, the new chair of the PCG Alliance. Mark Gould reports
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Dobbo swears blind that he's **** not ashamed BY MICHAEL WHITE
Don't know about you, but I flinched when I saw those 'Nurses: now the backlash' and 'Nurses fly into blood money row' headlines. They were all about the two British nurses released in Saudi Arabia, of course, but in a week of headlines about bogus angels and clamps left in ...
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Are clinical guidlines the answer
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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HBO announces new prescribing tool
HBO has announced an electronic prescribing addition to its computer- based patient record. The system, called Pathways, was developed by Birmingham University's Wolfson Institute for clinicians at University Hospital Birmingham's renal unit.
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Ambulance trusts to get digital mapping software
The Ordnance Survey has signed a deal with NHS Supplies to make a specialised digital mapping package available to ambulance trusts on the UK mainland.
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ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL WITH WELLHOUSE TRUST... AND MS MANERO
Your News Focus ('Fax and figures', pages 10-11, 14 May) correctly identified how optimistic Wellhouse trust is about the future.
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Ashworth chief takes leave after new claims
Ashworth Special Hospital chief executive Hilary Hodge is taking 'extended leave' following the launch of an inquiry into her management style by the hospital's board.
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Report advocates telemedicine throughout Wales
Wales could be the testing ground for telemedicine in the NHS, after an expert feasibility study of telemedicine in mid-Wales concluded by advising the government to roll out the technology across the entire principality.
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IMPROVED PERFORMANCE COMES FROM TRUSTS TAKING POSITIVE ACTION
The incomplete and inconclusive quotation from the academic responding to documented, empirically produced facts about the trends in clinical indicator performance was disappointing ('Doubts cast on dramatic fall in hospital deaths', News, page 6, 14 May).
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A question of accountability
What more damning indictment could there be of the internal market than NHS chief executive Alan Langlands' admission (see News, page 5) that he had not known about the failure of cervical screening services because it was 'not the way we were running the health service in those years'?