All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-02-19
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pounds1m development cash announced to upgrade top managers' training
Health officials this week unveiled plans to groom a 'cadre' of top managers and hinted at the damage done to training by past NHS reforms.
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NHS Confederation calls for year 2000 help
Information managers told MPs last week they needed more central support to tackle the year 2000 problem and warned them the process had to be speeded up.
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Coalition will resist HA's pounds6m cuts plan
A coalition of staff groups and health organisations has been formed to oppose a health authority's plans to save pounds6m over three years.
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Better health authority understanding about medical training, the potential impact of recent changes on service quality and quantity, and their cost implications.
Improved communication between trusts, the HA and GP groups about pressures on medical workloads and the potential impact on services.
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Getting the message across
Getting the message across: campaigners fighting to save Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, and Atkinson Morley Hospital took their protest to the Department of Health last week, with a petition to health secretary Frank Dobson. Plans to transfer acute services away from Queen Mary's - part of a package of measures ...
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Tories query tobacco ad ban support
Conservative MPs tried last week to ambush the government's support for a Europe-wide ban on tobacco advertising.
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Ex-Ashworth chief admits to lack of experience in personality disorders
The former chief executive of a special hospital at the centre of drug, pornography and sexual abuse allegations admitted last week that she had no experience of patients with psychopathic disorders.
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PERFORMANCE INDICATORS CAN BE TURNED TO EVERYONE'S ADVANTAGE
You report that a man with severe asthma had to wait 37 hours in casualty for a hospital bed (News, page 3, 29 January). You also report concerns about proposed performance indicators for the NHS (News Focus, pages 10-11, 29 January).
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Nurses slam HA advertisement
A health authority has been accused of misleading the public by placing a 'good news' advertisement in local papers.
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AFTER THE LONDON REVIEW, LET'S LOOK FORWARD TO THE RENAISSANCE OF THE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
So the London review is out and decisions taken (News, page 3, 5 February). I hope the residents of south-west London can begin to take a positive view of the future for Roehampton Hospital, to be 'reduced to a community hospital' as the newspapers put it.
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ALL CASES ARE SUITABLE FOR A CARING APPROACH
Thank heaven for a mental health professional who is prepared to challenge conventional wisdom concerning so-called personality disorders and a health authority which is prepared to put its money where its mouth is. Penelope Campling and the staff of Francis Dixon Lodge ('Suitable cases for treatment?', pages 34-35, 22 January) ...
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Transport deal angers LAS
Pressure is building on the government to speed up its review of NHS competitive tendering after a private company won a pounds1m contract to provide non-emergency patient transport services to the Royal Hospitals trust in London.
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There for the asking
Can the government’s planned annual surveys really measure patient satisfaction? And what format should the questionnaire take, ask Shirley McIver and Philip Meredith
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Rolling back the years
The NHS may face a huge bill in backdated claims for pensions contributions. Pat Healy reports
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...BECAUSE THE EARLY INDICATIONS ARE THAT IT'S A GOOD IDEA
It is a curiously British disease to trash new initiatives before they start. Your coverage of the new nurse-led helpline, NHS Direct, seemed determined not to look on the bright side.
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BY HOWARD BERLINER Premium rate calls
In his State of the Union address last month, President Clinton put forward the idea of allowing the 'near elderly' - those between the ages of 55 and 64 - to buy into Medicare.
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Betaferon results herald renewed funding warning
Clinicians sounded a fresh warning this week over NHS funding constraints after claims that drugs to treat multiple sclerosis could benefit twice as many patients as first thought.
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Better network
For the first of a four-part series on the public health green paper targets, Mark Gould visited Manchester to look at initiatives aimed at reducing suicides
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'Terror team' mastermind was former board manager
A former Scottish health board manager who masterminded a gang which carried out random attacks on strangers was jailed this week for four-and-a-half years.