All News articles – Page 2269
-
News
Making a statement
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 ...
-
News
Test scandal trust 'unduly litigious'
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.
-
News
Key Points
The appointment of a primary care mental health worker can relieve pressure on child and adolescent mental health services.
-
News
Key Points
The appointment of a primary care mental health worker can relieve pressure on child and adolescent mental health services.
-
News
Home removal services
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?
-
News
A year in the life of Great Ormond Street
'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 ...
-
News
A year in the life of Great Ormond Street
'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 ...
-
News
If you had a falling out with a friend, wouldn't you want to know why?
Patients struck off by GPs without explanation
-
News
Visiting the doctor is not like going to the pub
I've just seen a tearful elderly client who went to see their doctor seeking a referral.
-
News
A distressingly high number of people with mental health problems are struck off by GPs
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.
-
News
An opportunity to sit down and discuss pay for today
But if staff- side organisations can't agree, what hope of a national deal?
-
News
Codes of conduct
Will the public accounts committee's damning report on the Read codes project wreck the NHS's forthcoming information technology strategy, asks Peter Mitchell
-
News
'No confidence' vote over two ward closures
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.
-
News
Fathers' children are not part of the eligibility criteria for infertility treatment
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'.