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You can’t beat the system

It’s not just finance which could be in short supply in the health service. Lack of storage space means trusts are having to become more innovative in finding ways to rid themselves of mountains of paperwork. Richard Mackillican talks to Garth Knipe, Brent Walker and Paul Curley about their digital documentation systems...

To pay or not to pay

There are lots of decisions that we make as a society that enrage the few. Hospitals must either be completely cost free environments or we must accept charging for non-core services. In principle, it appears that as a society we have decided to accept charging in certain areas. We cannot now complain as the charging frontier moves from the tea rooms and car parks towards the core operations, say Michael Pitt and Rebecca Pitt...

David Bennett appointed as Interim Chief Executive of Monitor

Chris Mellor, acting chair of Monitor, has announced that Dr David Bennett has been appointed as the interim Chief Executive of Monitor.

Chris Mellor said “I am very pleased that David Bennett has agreed to become Monitor’s interim Chief Executive. David has extensive knowledge of the policy and strategic context of the health sector as well as practical ...

Living with the long term effects of cancer

It wasn’t so long ago that cancer was considered a killer disease – a mystery illness that knew no cure. It is only thanks to the incredible advances in medical science that the treatment of cancer has become more successful, so much so that the number of people dying of this devastating disease is now falling, says Jane Maher

Hungry for change

Nutritional care needs to be at the heart of NHS practice. If we are to tackle the scandal of malnourished older patients in our hospitals, every ward in every hospital needs to take action now, says Michelle Mitchell.

Food is one of the basic human needs for healthy well being and survival, yet too many hospitals fail to give nutritional care enough priority in their day-to-day practice.

Patients are not being adequately informed about electronic patient records, says BMA

Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the BMA has said.

Following limited local piloting, patients’ summary care records are now going to be uploaded to a central database across England. Five Strategic Health Authorities recently announced they were speeding up their plans. Anyone who does not want to have a Summary Care Record has to opt...

The Heart of Hounslow is officially opened as a polyclinic

The highly successful The Heart of Hounslow polyclinic will be opened officially on 25 February 2010 by Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Services and MP for Brentford and Isleworth, Ann Keen.

The Heart of Hounslow has been a big hit with local residents in its first 10 months as a polyclinic. Over 20,000 people have used the walk-in practice that is open 8am to 8pm every day of the year . This demonstrates its value to local residents by providing convenient and accessible high...

Training squeeze will result in poorer quality patient care, says BMA

Almost half of UK doctors surveyed by the BMA are missing out on essential training, since the implementation of the 48 hour week in August 2009, a BMA conference was told.

The conference, attended by junior doctors and key stakeholders, explores the impact the European Working Time Directive has had on training. The erosion of junior doctors’ training could seriously undermine the ability of the NHS to provide high quality patient care in the future, say BMA leaders....