All News articles – Page 2299
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Moving targets
Why wait another week to read the public health green paper when The Journal can reveal all?
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A moving story
Deaths among frail, elderly mentally ill patients following their transfer from hospital to the community are not inevitable. Kenneth Bledin and John Riordan explain
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Milburn orders publication of Read report
Health minister Alan Milburn has ordered the speedy publication of an allegedly damning report on a crisis-hit NHS computer project amid reports of a cover-up.
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Tell it like it is
Despite the rhetoric, carers are often required to look after sick and disabled people with a lack of information no professional would tolerate.
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Key Points
Employing nurses on annual-hours contracts which include on-call and stand-down duties has led to more efficient deployment of staff in relation to workload.
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Common misconceptions that people with severe personality disorders are 'undeserving and untreatable' often prevent them getting specialist treatment.
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DGHs are faced with a choice between restricting their focus to intensive surgical and medical services or building up alliances with other agencies, including GPs.
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The risk of death among elderly patients moved out of long-stay psychiatric hospitals can be minimised with careful preparation.
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Carers want a great deal more medical and practical information than they are given at present.
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It's quicker by tube
It's quicker by tube: a pounds500,000 pharmacy unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary brings together the dispensary and the medicine preparation unit for the first time, and has a hi-tech air-tube delivery system which will speed up the transfer of prescriptions and drugs between the pharmacy and hospital wards. 'It signals ...
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Using their initiative
Tomorrow is the deadline for health action zone applications. Dolly Chadda looks at one project which claims to exemplify just what the government is looking for
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Heart murmurs
Doctors and the government are at loggerheads over the best way to tackle coronary heart disease in Scotland.
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UKCC TASK GROUP
The United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has set up a task group to produce a framework for the level of specialist practice that will safeguard the public. The group is seeking evidence and opinion from a wide range of people involved in health and social ...
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Scottish group suggests single Lothian trust
A Scottish working group has raised the possibility of there being just one acute trust in Lothian, against the grain of government thinking.
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BY MATT MUIJEN Gently does it this time round
Many will remember the launch of the Tory white paper, Working for Patients, in 1989. Softened up by the razzmatazz more usually associated with boxing matches, everyone in the NHS was herded together in halls across the nation to watch a video of Maggie. Big reforms hit us with the ...
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The regeneration game
A bastion of vested interests? Impersonal? Bureaucratic? The demise of the conventional district general hospital has been predicted for years. But Mike Pollard believes it can survive - and even prosper
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Mental health guidance 'will mean huge extra workload'
Tens of thousands of patients may need to be assessed to determine if they should be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, under new guidance issued by the NHS Executive. Managers fear a huge rise in workload in having to comply with the requirement.
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Doctors' training to include management skills
Radical proposals to put management at the heart of junior doctors' training have been accepted by professional bodies.