All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-07-30
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The Department of Health paid 95.3 per cent of its bills on time last year
The Department of Health paid 95.3 per cent of its bills on time last year, meeting targets set by the Department of Trade and Industry. But the DoH will have to meet a 97.5 per cent target this year and a 100 per cent target next year, small firms minister ...
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900 a session for surgeons in last-ditch bid to clear lists
Trusts are paying surgeons up to 900 for a half-day's work in a bid to clear waiting lists, it emerged this week.
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We won't lie back and accept this 'hypothetical' argument: where's the data on buying beds?
I was concerned to read Peter Cave and Leonora Descombe's article ('Slow on the uptake', pages 30-31, 30 April), and even more so when they claimed it to be hypothetical.
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Who's who in health action zones
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Has appointed Liz Sayce from Mind as HAZ director. 'Her experience in mental health will be invaluable in helping solve some of the most pressing social exclusion problems.'
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Share and share alike
Money for tackling waiting lists was supposed to be targeted only at 'imaginative and effective' schemes. Patrick Butler queries the methodology
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Private ambulance services' fury over paramedic register
Private ambulance operators have threatened legal action against plans for a national register of paramedics - claiming that it is an attempt to squeeze them out of the 30m 'public and sporting events' market.
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Armless amusement
With reference to Monitor's comment on the King's Fund's 'dead sloth' logo (page 64, 25 June), the creature is obviously trying to puzzle out why it has three legs and one arm, and wondering how this can be part of a quality service.
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Andrew Woodhead
has been appointed acting chief executive of Wellhouse trust. He is currently a senior performance manager with North Thames regional office and was previously chief executive of Haringey Healthcare trust. He starts his appointment on 3 August in a shadow capacity.
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Answers that give rise to another set of questions Despite forthcoming guidance on primary care groups, anomalies remain
The greater detail due to be set out in guidance on primary care groups within a matter of weeks - and reported in HSJ's news pages this week - suggests that ministers and civil servants have listened and taken on board many of the concerns voiced by the NHS (see ...
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'Bristol babies' chief to appeal
Former trust chief executive John Roylance is to appeal to the Privy Council after being struck off by the General Medical Council for his part in the Bristol heart babies case.
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Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region.
Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region. Alan Bullen, who is leader of West Lancashire district council, becomes chair of South Lancashire HA. Vourneen Darbyshire, a solicitor, becomes chair of North West Lancashire HA. She is a former non-executive director of Blackpool, Wyre and ...
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Monitoring quality and clinical performance Whistleblowers must make approach to regulatory bodies themselves
You reported my recent appearance before the House of Commons public administration committee (News Focus, page 12-13, 16 July). It must have been in a parallel universe: the meeting I attended was very different.
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'It was the wrong time for beautiful architecture'
Completed in 1970, Northwick Park Hospital (above) was too late to be included in English Heritage's listing proposals, but it may be singled out next time. If so, it is bound to cause consternation. For the building is universally regarded as an ugly concrete sprawl, even though it has proved ...
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Police, not hospitals, should press charges in cases of attacks on staff
You report the Lord Chancellor's recommendation that magistrates should impose appropriately tough sentences on people found guilty of attacking health workers (News, page 6, 25 June).
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Audit Commission considers quality and patient's view as well as efficiency
Kieran Walshe's thought-provoking piece on the NHS Executive consultation paper on quality (Open Space, pages 18-19, 9 July) states that 'the establishment of the Commission for Health Improvement can also be seen as an implicit criticism of the Audit Commission for failing to tackle issues of clinical performance and sticking ...
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Audit Commission denies 'inside track' deal
The Audit Commission has been left red-faced by the recent 'cash- for access' row after it emerged it had hired controversial parliamentary lobbyists Lawson Lucas Mendelsohn to provide a 'public affairs' service.
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Purchasers and providers in battle for 'unified' Confederation chair
Senior figures from both sides of the health service's purchaser- provider divide are set to contest next month's election to appoint
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Blair seeks to calm unions' pay fears
Prime minister Tony Blair last week moved to pacify health service unions angry that the independence of the pay review bodies had been undermined by new terms of reference set out in the comprehensive spending review.
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White men skew boards
NHS boards in Greater London are top heavy with white, middle-aged men, says a survey by the Greater London Association of Community Health Councils.
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GPs in minority on new Welsh local health group boards
GPs will be in a minority on local health group boards, Welsh health minister Win Griffiths has told the British Medical Association.