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How the savings were made
The orthopaedic inpatient cost for 1997-98 was 1,949 per finished consultant episode. The semi-fixed component of this was 908. Only semi-fixed costs are saved from a reduced length of stay: fixed costs (eg consultants) remain static and variable costs (eg drugs) are largely the same. The average length of stay ...
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Report made mischief out of reflections on the past
Your news story on In The Public Interest was at best mischievous, and at worst downright malevolent. The report rightly reflects on how community health councils need to look again at our role, and recognises that we need to be revitalised. Its suggestions are worthy of serious debate and discussion.
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Report made mischief out of reflections on the past
Your news story on In The Public Interest was at best mischievous, and at worst downright malevolent. The report rightly reflects on how community health councils need to look again at our role, and recognises that we need to be revitalised. Its suggestions are worthy of serious debate and discussion.
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WEB WATCH
Somewhere out there in cyberspace, someone shares your interest in the early history of health economics, the research possibilities inherent in The New NHS, or whatever it is that turns you on. Indeed, the ether is probably buzzing already with fellow enthusiasts sharing ideas. But how to find them?
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WEB WATCH
Somewhere out there in cyberspace, someone shares your interest in the early history of health economics, the research possibilities inherent in The New NHS, or whatever it is that turns you on. Indeed, the ether is probably buzzing already with fellow enthusiasts sharing ideas. But how to find them?
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The Department of Health paid 95.3 per cent of its bills on time last year
The Department of Health paid 95.3 per cent of its bills on time last year, meeting targets set by the Department of Trade and Industry. But the DoH will have to meet a 97.5 per cent target this year and a 100 per cent target next year, small firms minister ...
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900 a session for surgeons in last-ditch bid to clear lists
Trusts are paying surgeons up to 900 for a half-day's work in a bid to clear waiting lists, it emerged this week.
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We won't lie back and accept this 'hypothetical' argument: where's the data on buying beds?
I was concerned to read Peter Cave and Leonora Descombe's article ('Slow on the uptake', pages 30-31, 30 April), and even more so when they claimed it to be hypothetical.
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Who's who in health action zones
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Has appointed Liz Sayce from Mind as HAZ director. 'Her experience in mental health will be invaluable in helping solve some of the most pressing social exclusion problems.'