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Reading between the lines on the delayed IT strategy Is it all on hold while the final chapter of the Read codes fiasco unfolds?
What has happened to the NHS's promised new information management and technology strategy? There's still no sign of it - despite the fast- approaching end of IT supremo Frank Burns' secondment in September. The service had been led to believe the strategy's launch was waiting on the results of the ...
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A breath of fresh air
More people working in healthcare are moving into the voluntary sector, where they are given more autonomy than in the NHS, writes Lynn Eaton
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Aintree Hospitals trust
'The trust reduced its overall sickness absence rates from 11 per cent in 1994 to 5 per cent now,' says Aintree Hospitals trust occupational health services manager Graham Johnson.
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Assembly powers key in Wales quality agenda
The Welsh Assembly will be able to ask the Commission for Health Improvement to investigate 'persistent failures to act' on problems at Welsh health organisations.
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Assembly powers key in Wales quality agenda
The Welsh Assembly will be able to ask the Commission for Health Improvement to investigate 'persistent failures to act' on problems at Welsh health organisations.
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Protocol aims to cut claims against NHS
Health authorities and trusts will be offered training in the use of a new clinical negligence protocol which aims to settle claims earlier.
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Protocol aims to cut claims against NHS
Health authorities and trusts will be offered training in the use of a new clinical negligence protocol which aims to settle claims earlier.
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Trusts left leaderless after top-level conflict
Two neighbouring community trusts have been without chief executives for more than a month after serious internal clashes.
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Trusts left leaderless after top-level conflict
Two neighbouring community trusts have been without chief executives for more than a month after serious internal clashes.
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999 times hit by 'lifestyle change'
The London Ambulance Service has blamed changing lifestyles for worsening 999 response times.
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999 times hit by 'lifestyle change'
The London Ambulance Service has blamed changing lifestyles for worsening 999 response times.
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6m St Mary's shortfall is 'surprise', says chair suspended
The deficit at a London teaching hospital where a senior finance manager is suspended on full pay has risen to 6m, its chair admitted last week.
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NHS hotline wins 35m expansion
A 35m expansion of the NHS Direct telephone helpline has been announced by health minister Alan Milburn.
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NHS hotline wins 35m expansion
A 35m expansion of the NHS Direct telephone helpline has been announced by health minister Alan Milburn.
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WEB WATCH
It has probably already become inevitable that the new National Institute for Clinical Excellence will have its own website on which to set out all the good things that people can and should be doing. But what about the Commission for Health Improvement? Will it engage in virtual naming and ...
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Written off 'Rolls-Royce'
In the mid-1980s, Greenwich District Hospital looked as if it had a future. The 1960s building was due to be redeveloped, allowing specialist services to move from neighbouring hospitals. Plans included a tunnel link to new buildings over the road, moving car parking to the roof and reducing reliance on ...
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On the record
Roger Kline is national secretary (health) for the MSF trade union, which has 65,000 members in the NHS. He is also head of labour relations for the union's community practitioners and health visitors' association.