All Winter pressures articles – Page 33

  • News

    Funding gap, not enmity, blamed for 'Berlin walls'

    1998-01-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    Monitor

    1998-01-15T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Health secretary Frank Dobson

    1998-01-15T00:00:00Z

    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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    Crisis, what crisis?

    1998-01-15T00:00:00Z

    Why has the predicted winter crisis failed to materialise?

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    24hr helpline could ease A&E pressures

    1998-01-15T00:00:00Z

    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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    Honourable discharge

    1998-01-08T00:00:00Z

    How is the NHS improving hospital discharge arrangements to cope with winter pressures?