UK: GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE MORE HOSPITAL BEDS
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The UK government has announced that it is to provide an additional 4,000 hospital beds, a significant turnaround in policy. The National Beds Inquiry, which has found that hospitals cut a large majority of beds to reduce staff costs, is expected to state that top priority will be given to the provision for the elderly. The policy reversal may result in so-called 'granny wards', and also help boost the number of community care and cottage hospitals. The National Health Service (NHS) currently provides 572,000 beds.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: MINISTERS STUDY CONSTRAINTS ON DOCTORS
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UK ministers are examining the introduction of more rigid constraints on doctors' prescriptions to ensure that patients received the highest quality care based on the limited resources available. The British Medical Association (BMA) expressed concern order the proposed guidelines, or recipes, which are intended to provide the National Health Service with assistance in tackling the increasing demands placed on it. The BMA believes that the moves will impair staff morale and remove the skill element of medicine. The new guidelines will be implemented initially with regard to cancer referrals from April 2000. Women suspected of having cancer by a GP will have to be seen inside 14 days of being referred.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: GOVERNMENT INVESTS GB[pound] 600MN IN NHS
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The Secretary of State for Health, Mr Alan Milburn, is to announce that the Government is to invest some GB[pound] 600mn into improving the front-line health services provided under the National Health Service (NHS). Mr Milburn is to make an unprecedented move by allowing family doctors and community nurses to decide how to spend this additional GB[pound] 600mn. It is expected that the additional money will be used to provide more intermediate care, cut waiting times, reduced health authority deficits, provide a cash cushion to fund local projects and end the postcode lottery that seems to determine if patients receive certain drugs/treatments or not depending on where they live.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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