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THE BEAR NECESSITIES OF LIFE WHEN YOU'RE SICK
I read with interest your short item on the 'intensive care bears' being used in the intensive treatment unit of Derriford Hospital, Plymouth (News, page 8, 11 December).
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Bart's is saved as cardiac and cancer centre
Health secretary Frank Dobson said this week he had 'saved' St Bartholomew's Hospital by announcing it will become a specialist centre for cardiac and cancer care.
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Sense of mistrust replaces Ashworth 'gang culture'
Managers have stamped out the gang culture that once ruled the corridors of Ashworth special hospital through increased security, an inquiry heard this week.
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WHEN SIZE MATTERS... BUT MUST BE RECONCILED WITH A LOCAL APPROACH
Matt Muijen asks interesting questions about mental health services in The New NHS (Community Spirit, 22 January).
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NONE OF OUR QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED
Our article ('Time to strip the beds,' pages 30-33, 27 November) sought to show a range of issues which were not properly dealt with by University Hospital Birmingham trust's consultation.
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Fund takeover angers GPs in budget dispute GPs
Doctors at a pilot fundholding project in Scotland have reacted angrily to an unprecedented decision by the local health board to resume control of their budget.
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BAR-CODES ON PRECRIPTIONS WOULD HELP US ALL
Most GP prescriptions are now done on accredited GP computers. It would be a simple matter to make the computer not only print out the prescriptions, but also a bar-code giving the full details of the prescription, including drug name and dosage, patient details and details of the prescribing GP.
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DoH admits to error but no 'secret agenda' in NHS board appointments
Hundreds of recent NHS board appointments are to be investigated after the Department of Health admitted that an error during a trawl for new members may have led to a disproportionate number of Labour councillors getting jobs.
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Adding to local divisions
White paper proposals to determine primary care funding according to a set formula will not solve
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Barnet faces legal action on cuts
A London trust and health authority are facing legal action from a community health council and doctors over a pounds7m package of cuts.
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DEVELOPING PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE Learning through the critical appreciation of practice By Della Fish and Colin Coles Butterworth Heinemann 318 pages pounds17.99
Professionals are under siege. Their one-time autonomy is no longer sacrosanct, partly because patients and clients are more knowledgeable and partly because they are more suspicious. Even doctors, who have for so long inhabited the higher slopes of exclusivity, find their patients challenging their judgement, even as far as the ...
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Durham mergers to release pounds1.3m
Five trusts in Durham are to be dissolved and three new ones formed from April, in a move set to save pounds1.3m.
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WEB WATCH
With the Devolution Bill now through its second reading and a site chosen for the Scottish Parliament, progress towards self rule is advancing apace. And nowhere more so than in the health service, for which the Designed to Care white paper maps out a future very different from that south ...
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Wet ting the whistle
NHS employees who 'go public' on wrongdoing and malpractice are to get legal protection. Patrick Butler reports on the 'whistleblowers bill'
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Time to turn the tables
'But do the panoply of indicators and league tables, together with the ritual of public scrutiny and humiliation for the laggards, actually improve performance? Where is the evidence?'
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Wired for sound
If the headlines are correct, NHS Direct, a nurse-led 24-hour advice and information helpline to be set up across the country by the year 2000, will transform access to healthcare in the UK. The New NHS white paper hailed NHS Direct as a key element in the modernisation of the ...
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A SIMPLE SOLUTION FOR THE STUDENT SHORTAGE
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee says the annual intake of medical students should be increased by about 1,000 as soon as possible (News Focus, page 13, 8 January).
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