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The bat tles of Bottomley
Love her or loathe her, Virginia Bottomley was a woman with crusading zeal. And, as Patrick Butler discovered, she still is
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Barbara Kennedy
Barbara Kennedy (above), previously chief executive of Leicestershire Mental Health Service trust, has been appointed chief executive of North West Anglia Healthcare trust, where she first worked as a director in 1990.
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Board approves changes as Lord Ewing speaks out
A Scottish health board this week gave the go-ahead to controversial proposals for service changes over which a trust chair dramatically quit.
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DoH alert failed to halt fatal op
An 11th- hour intervention by the Department of Health failed to stop Bristol heart surgeons carrying out a fatal operation on an 18-month- old boy.
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Joining health and social services 'not on agenda'
Integrated health and social services organisations are 'not on the current agenda', senior Department of Health officials have told MPs.
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London Ambulance suspends two managers after sackings tribunal
London Ambulance Service trust has suspended two managers following an industrial tribunal finding in favour of two workers sacked after a damning report by the managers into their conduct.
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TELEPHONE ADVICE SERVICE NEEDS UNIFIED STRATEGY
Letters about telephone advice (19 February) serve to illustrate the positive and negative aspects of current approaches to health service provision.
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HA halts service transfer after threat of legal action
A health authority has stopped the transfer of specialist children's surgery between two London hospitals following a threat of legal action.
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Officials accused over complaint
Two Scottish trust officials have been accused of pressurising a patient to withdraw a complaint of sexual malpractice against a consultant gynaecologist.
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Just what is an accident?
The green paper definition of an accident as an event which requires a visit to the GP or to A&E is 'interesting', says A&E specialist registrar Andrew Hobart. But he has his doubts.
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Managed Health Care By Ray Robinson and Andrea Steiner Open University Press 224 pages pounds50/pounds16.99
This excellent book summarises the literature on managed care, as it has been practised in the US, and attempts to extract results and conclusions that could be of benefit to the NHS. As the authors detail, this is a far more difficult project than it might seem at first.
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References
1 Wood S et al. A self-medication scheme for elderly patients improves compliance with their medication regimes. International J of Pharmacy Practice 1992; 1: 240-1.
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on the record
SIMON STEVENS, 31, is health secretary Frank Dobson's special adviser for policy. He has previously worked as a health authority director, at London teaching hospitals, in mental health in the North East, and in Guyana and New York. He went to Oxford and Strathclyde universities.
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In person
John James has been appointed director of community and specialist health services at Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust. He joins from King's Healthcare trust, where he was clinical services manager for two-and-a-half years. Previously he was chief executive of the former Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster family ...
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Key Points
Employing an extra social worker at a 600-bed acute hospital over three winter months (January to March 1997) and extending the opening hours of the medical assessment unit reduced delayed discharges.
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Key points
A pilot scheme allowing hospital inpatients to take responsibility for administering their own drugs has been well received by patients and nurses.
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key points
Employing an extra social worker at a 600-bed acute hospital over three winter months (January to March 1997) and extending the opening hours of the medical assessment unit reduced delayed discharges.
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Key implications
Cholesterol screening programmes are unlikely to reduce mortality and can be misleading or harmful.