All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-01-14
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Time-wasters
About half the calls made to Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service over the holiday period were a 'waste of time', claims trust spokesman Phil Morris.
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Supra troupers
A study into the development of one city's primary care groups found backing for a supra-PCG, which would monitor standards and provide management support. Judith Smith and colleagues explain
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Ready sorted
news focus; Health authority and trust chief executives in the capital have already experienced the forthright management style of Nigel Crisp, the man running the new London region.
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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In person
Derek Smith, chief executive of King's Healthcare trust, is leaving at the end of this month to become managing director of London Underground. He has led the trust for nine years. The trust's director of finance and information services, Patrick Butcher, will become acting chief executive until a successor is ...
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One for the road
The Road Traffic Bill will make it easier for the NHS to claim back treatment costs for crash victims. But will it be worth doing? Seamus Ward finds out
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More than half of Northern Ireland's trusts expect to run out of money before the end of the financial year, according to a British Association survey which concluded that the province's hospital service was in 'severe distress'. The survey found that eight out of 14 responding trusts had lost beds ...
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Monitor
There comes a time in politics when you just have to come clean about that shameful secret before someone outs you. So Monitor wants to hear no sniggering now that the man who gave fundholding its academic credibility has admitted his embarrassing and somewhat perverse peccadillo. Yes, former Labour parliamentary ...
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Milburn motors on
Although Alan Milburn was technically health secretary Frank Dobson's understudy, the new NHS primary care programme will arguably go down in history as Milburn's reforms.
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A matter of trust
One challenge of merging health and social services in a pioneering trust is allaying the fears of both camps that the other will dominate, writes Pat Healy.
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Managers moonlight to make up for low pay
Half of NHS managers do not think they are well paid and one in 10 has a second paid job, according to a Unison survey published as part of its campaign for higher pay.
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Top trust is left without a leader
One of Scotland's most prestigious trusts has been left without a chief executive after new recruit Malcolm Stamp announced his intention to stay on at Norfolk and Norwich Health Care trust.
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Key points
Research in Birmingham involving GPs, the health authority and the local medical committee found support for umbrella arrangements for some primary care group functions.
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Proud of our record of treating homeless people and helping to rehabilitate them into society
Having read your news story, 'Homeless using A&E due to poor GP access', (page 7, 17 December) I felt compelled to write about the reality of working with the homeless population.
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Hancock's half hour
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock gives blood at the RCN's central London headquarters.
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GPs' retainer scheme 'offers model for NHS'
A £3m project to promote part-time work in general practice could be 'a model for the NHS', leading GPs have argued.
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Future Perfect: the findings
Change takes time - despite a great amount of activity, there was little transformation in services.
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Mental health plan 'failure' exposed
The government's radical overhaul of mental health policy fell victim to inertia, short-term thinking and underfunding when put to the test in a two-day simulation exercise.