All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-07-16
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16 July 1948
The King's Fund's future was raised at its annual genera l meeting by its president, the Duke of Gloucester.
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Dobson weighs up £21bn cash boost
Health secretary Frank Dobson will announce today how the NHS is going to spend chancellor Gordon Brown's unprecedented £21bn give-away.
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Trust chief challenges DoH on 999 call system
A trailblazing trust chief executive has launched an outspoken attack on Department of Health officials over their alleged failure to acknowledge his trust's success in being first to meet a new 999 response-time target.
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Cancer framework 'fails to deliver equal access'
The cancer framework now being used as a model for national standards in other services is failing to deliver equal access to care, according to the MP who chairs the Commons all-party group on cancer.
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Trusts charge patients 'exorbitant' prices for medical record access
Trusts and GPs are imposing 'exorbitant' charges on patients seeking access to their medical records, according to a survey of 95 community health councils.
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Health ministers' statements just ain't what they used to be
Baroness is no Bevanite on cottage hospitals or plain speaking
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In brief: Public Health Alliance
The Public Health Alliance has published a report advocating a 'social model' of health.
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Manchester ambulances booked via Internet
Greater Manchester Ambulance Service trust has become the first in the country to allow GPs to book non-emergency ambulances using NHSNet. The pilot scheme, which runs until October, is aimed at simplifying what the trust admits is a 'complicated and time consuming' system 'involving many telephone calls, booking forms and ...
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Ashworth set to join mainstream mental health service in wake of chief executive's departure
Ashworth special hospital is to be integrated further into mainstream NHS mental health services following the surprise departure last week of chief executive Hilary Hodge.
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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association has called for 'ultimate responsibility' for health and safety in the NHS to rest with the NHS Executive, rather than trust and health authority boards. The call is part of a 10point charter issued at the BMA's annual representative meeting.
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DoH backs research on homeless people and GPs
The Department of Health is to sponsor research to identify areas where homeless people have persistent trouble getting access to GPs. The initiative forms part of an action programme coming out of the second report of the government's social exclusion unit. It sets a target of reducing the number of ...
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Country protesters go to town in bid to save small hospitals
Westminster was hit by the second countryside protest in six months last week. But this time it wasn't the middle England of hunting, shooting and fishing fame.
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Shamed and blamed
Former hospital orderly Paul Corney was convicted of administering prescription drugs to a motorway crash victim.
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BMA raises data security worry
Doctors' negotiators are preparing to demand extra controls on the new NHS-wide number-tracing service.
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Liverpool GP wins top BMA post
Liverpool GP Ian Bogle has been elected chair of the British Medical Association's council, succeeding Sir Alexander Macara who stood down last week.
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Board games
Three managers named in a report alleging financial mismanagement at a health board have left, while the fourth faces a disciplinary hearing. Matthew Limb reports
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Hospital board 'misled' on deficit
NA senior finance manager at a London teaching hospital has been suspended after auditors found the trust board had been 'misled' over the scale of its deficit.
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In brief: Scotland's NHS
Scotland's NHS is to spend £6m on the next phase of a plan to connect the country's 370 hospitals and health boards to its 1,075 GP surgeries. The first phase provided £7m to equip GP practices with Windows NT machines and ISDN connections to a private BT network. The second ...