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Always read the label:
Always read the label: a patient gets to grips with half-a-dozen types of medication at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. It is breaking with 25 years of NHS operating procedure by allowing patients to take their own medicines in hospital instead of confiscating or destroying them on admission. ...
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Share and share alike
Health workers in Glasgow are setting out to win a bigger share of NHS resources from richer areas. Barbara Millar investigates
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Aims and values
The aim of the standing advisory group is to ensure that consumer involvement in the NHS R&D programme improves the way research is prioritised, commissioned and disseminated.
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THOUGHTS ON THE REAL ANTI-SMOKING AGENDA
So public health minister Tessa Jowell wants to criminalise those smokers aged 16 and 17, who can presently be legally sold tobacco products (News Focus, page 10, 4 December).
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IT'S HARD TO FIND, BUT INFORMATION FOR DEAF PEOPLE ABOUT HEALTHCARE SERVICES IS AVAILABLE
Nick Mears says that deaf people do not get equal opportunities in healthcare, especially information translated in sign language, which is almost nil (Letters, 6 November).
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Managers will be able to do their job 'more efficiently'
Managers will be able to do their job 'more efficiently' thanks to a new national e-mail system that will be created through NHSnet to link health authorities, trusts, the NHS Executive and the Department of Health for the first time, health minister Alan Milburn has announced. He said the system, ...
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24hr helpline could ease A&E pressures
A London health authority is using pounds195,000 of winter pressures money to launch what may be the first 24-hour nurse-led helpline to divert patients from casualty wards.
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Staff absence costs trusts pounds1.8m a year
Sickness among nurses and midwives can cost individual trusts as much as pounds1.8m a year, according to research.
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This week
New year, new idea: Dennis Holmes, an accident and emergency manager from the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service trust, on duty at one of two mobile medical centres set up in Leeds on new year's eve as a 'trial run' for the millennium celebrations. The centres, staffed by members of ...
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WEB WATCH
One hundred kilometres east of the killing fields of Kigali, a new community of 94 brick-built houses is taking shape in the green hills of Kibungo. Built by its inhabitants, many of whom returned to Rwanda only last year after fleeing the country's troubles, it is a model of good ...
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FOR THE RECORD: WHO DOES WHAT, WHEN AND WHERE
We at Shared Medical Systems Ltd read with interest the article 'Chips off the old block' (News Focus, page 12, 4 December).
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Time to take the medicine?
The Medical Workforce Standing Advisory Committee has recommended that 1,000 extra medical students be trained each year. But where will the money come from and do we need them, asks Lyn Whitfield
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RED TAPE MEASURES
If the government is majoring on performance measurement in its new, modern and dependable NHS, how does it intend to measure and demonstrate the removal of pounds1bn from unnecessary bureaucracy over the next four years?
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Labour pains
For all the changes there have been in healthcare in the past half century, some common themes echo down the years, as these edited extracts from Geoffrey Rivett's new history of the NHS demonstrate
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Key Points
A trust, comprising two hospitals, has reduced the mean length of stay for acute medical admissions from 11.1 to 10.5 days and the median from six to five days, despite an increase in the number of these admissions.
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Just rewards?
New year, new NHS Executive head of human resources - and a new pay agenda in the offing. Barbara Millar explores the options for replacing local pay determination in 1998