All News articles – Page 2269

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    Making a statement

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Having worked at a large teaching hospital for some years, my best tip for clearing waiting lists is to ensure that all patients who have waited nine months positively identify that they still wish to come in. In pre-contracting days this cleared nearly half an 8,000-strong waiting list, and ensured ...

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    Test scandal trust 'unduly litigious'

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    A hospital facing legal action by 89 women affected by a cervical smear test scandal has been accused of being 'unduly litigious' in settling some cases.

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    Letters

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Waiting lists

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    Key Points

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The appointment of a primary care mental health worker can relieve pressure on child and adolescent mental health services.

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    Key Points

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    The appointment of a primary care mental health worker can relieve pressure on child and adolescent mental health services.

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    Hospital and Social Service Journal

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    13 August 1948

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    Home removal services

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    As community care reforms continue to depress the market in private residential care and small homes are lost, how will services meet all elderly people's needs?

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    A year in the life of Great Ormond Street

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    'We felt it was in our interests to let people see how Great Ormond Street operates,' says Ros Cliffe, director of public affairs and general fundraising, explaining why the trust decided to let the BBC's Children's Hospital series on its wards for the whole of 1995. It was not a ...

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    A year in the life of Great Ormond Street

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    'We felt it was in our interests to let people see how Great Ormond Street operates,' says Ros Cliffe, director of public affairs and general fundraising, explaining why the trust decided to let the BBC's Children's Hospital series on its wards for the whole of 1995. It was not a ...

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    If you had a falling out with a friend, wouldn't you want to know why?

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Patients struck off by GPs without explanation

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    Events

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Porters South, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW. Fax: 0171-843 4670.

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    Events

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Porters South, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW. Fax: 0171-843 4670.

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    Visiting the doctor is not like going to the pub

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    I've just seen a tearful elderly client who went to see their doctor seeking a referral.

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    A distressingly high number of people with mental health problems are struck off by GPs

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Despite Steve Ainsworth's statistic of 'only one person per GP per year', there is a distressingly high incidence of people with mental health problems being removed from GPs' lists.

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    An opportunity to sit down and discuss pay for today

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    But if staff- side organisations can't agree, what hope of a national deal?

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    Short cuts

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Unison proposes 'forums' for primary care groups

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    Codes of conduct

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Will the public accounts committee's damning report on the Read codes project wreck the NHS's forthcoming information technology strategy, asks Peter Mitchell

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    'No confidence' vote over two ward closures

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    Staff at Llandough Hospital in South Wales have passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in its managers after a decision to close two wards.

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    Fathers' children are not part of the eligibility criteria for infertility treatment

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    I was surprised to read in your cover feature 'The cost of living' (pages 22-25, 23 July) that Shetland health board operates an eligibility criterion for assisted conception which states 'no living children fathered by current partner'.