All Winter pressures articles – Page 32

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    Cold remedies

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    As winter pressures begin to bite, one health authority is better able to cope, thanks to multi-agency workshops which also involved local elderly people.

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    £155m hospital for Bromley

    1998-11-26T00:00:00Z

    Contracts have been signed for the ninth major hospital to be built under the private finance initiative. Building work on a £155m hospital for Bromley will start shortly.

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    monitor

    1998-11-19T00:00:00Z

    More this week on secret plans for PCGs (that's the patient consultative groups revealed here last week). As you will recall, all patients are to be grouped into PCGs of roughly 500 people each. Our secret source reveals that practice budgets will be devolved to each PCG, whose duties will ...

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    Crackdown on NHS sickness bill begins

    1998-11-12T00:00:00Z

    NHS human resources managers are to have new guidance on tackling absenteeism in line with chancellor Gordon Brown's bid to cut £6bn from the public sector staff sickness bill.

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    Chancellor finds extra £250m to cope with winter pressures

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £250m 'winter cash' for the NHS in his pre-budget statement on Tuesday.

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    Winter pressure cash plea meets a cool response from Executive

    1998-10-29T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Executive has responded coolly to calls for a regular cash injection to help trusts cope with steep rises in emergency cases over the winter months.

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    Nyes not Tonies

    1998-10-08T00:00:00Z

    An award for good practice named after the founder of the NHS was one of the 'appetisers' thrown to Labour delegates at Blackpool, but they made it clear that pay is still the key issue. Patrick Butler reports

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    Joint winter funding is 'lopsided' - Thornton

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Inter-agency partnerships to tackle winter pressures will be 'lopsided' unless the government plans a long-term cash injection for social services, NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton warned last week.

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    Dobson sets winter pressures deadline

    1998-09-03T00:00:00Z

    Health authorities and trusts have been given just four weeks to detail plans for dealing with this year's winter pressures.

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    'Winter pressures' could tip the balance of care

    1998-09-03T00:00:00Z

    A re-assessment of NHS priorities is necessary to cope this winter

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    Wales' lists climb to 74,000 with scores of 'long-waiters'

    1998-06-04T00:00:00Z

    Hospital waiting lists in Wales have risen more rapidly than in England, and government figures show hundreds of patients still having to wait more than two years for treatment.

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    'Carrot and stick' to cut waiting lists

    1998-04-16T00:00:00Z

    A £32m performance fund has been created to encourage health authorities to meet new waiting list targets.

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    Cutting a figure

    1998-03-05T00:00:00Z

    On Friday and Saturday nights, Birmingham sees a vast influx of young people into the thriving clubs and pubs of the redeveloped city centre.

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    Therapy

    1998-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Last year, Southend Hospital set up a project with social services and community health providers to deal with winter pressures and avoid delayed discharges. The initiative, which ran from January to March:

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    Combination

    1998-02-26T00:00:00Z

    Therapy

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    The shock of the new

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Health service managers have been given a stern warning not to try to seize control of healthcare reform in the wake of The New NHS as they did with Working for Patients during the early 1990s.

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    Sense of authority

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    In the first of this week's two-part look at NHS board appointments, Pat Healy reports on the influx of councillors with social services backgrounds

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    REFERENCES

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    1 The New NHS: modern, dependable. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.

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    Take your partners

    1998-02-05T00:00:00Z

    The white paper emphasises collaboration and puts forward a range of proposals. But is there a

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    LONDON'S 24-HOUR HELPLINE IS OLD NEWS IN OLDHAM

    1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

    You stated that a London health authority is using pounds195,000 of winter pressures money to launch what might be the first 24-hour nurse- led helpline to direct patients from casualty wards (News, page 6, 15 January).