All Winter pressures articles – Page 33
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Winter pressure cash plea meets a cool response from Executive
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
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
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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'Winter pressures' could tip the balance of care
A re-assessment of NHS priorities is necessary to cope this winter
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Dobson sets winter pressures deadline
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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Wales' lists climb to 74,000 with scores of 'long-waiters'
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
A £32m performance fund has been created to encourage health authorities to meet new waiting list targets.
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Cutting a figure
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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The shock of the new
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
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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Take your partners
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
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).
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Funding gap, not enmity, blamed for 'Berlin walls'
Inadequate funding of social care, rather than poor relationships, is responsible for 'Berlin walls' between health and social services, MPs were told this week.
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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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Health secretary Frank Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson chats to patient Jean Boyle after officially opening Huddersfield Royal Infirmary's pounds1m critical care unit last week. Because of funding problems, the eight-bed unit has been running half-empty since it started accepting patients 18 months ago. The four intensive care beds at the unit have already ...
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Monitor
It's the Patients Association wot tells it how it is, apparently. Or at least, Monitor assumes, the organisation led by novelist and agony aunt Claire Rayner was aiming to reflect the language of the street when it put out a press release about a conference encouraging people to make better ...