All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-01-21
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Such an old story
From poor law to community care The development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971 (2nd edition 1998) By Robin Means and Randall Smith The Policy Press 332 pages £45
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monitor
Monitor wouldn't wish to suggest anyone was panicking about the millennium bug, but when hospitals start sinking their own wells to ensure continued water supplies 'just in case', there must be something going on. Northwick Park Hospital communications manager Brian Goodinson says the idea does hold other attractions, even if ...
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Making a point:
Making a point: a midwife signs a postcard backing a Royal College of Midwives campaign for a 'fair deal' on pay and action to tackle staff shortages. The RCM hopes to deliver 30,000 postcards to Parliament to 'maintain pressure' on ministers in the run-up to an announcement by the nursing, ...
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Making their marker
Paul Myers is a GP and senior lecturer at the department of general practice and primary care, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine.
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Key points
An increase in the number of complications following male circumcisions performed by non-professionals led to the establishment of a special clinic for religious circumcisions.
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Key points
The performance indicators currently in use are not reliable for assessing individual GPs or identifying poor performers.
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Keep us posted
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Patrick Herbert
Patrick Herbert is the new chair of Sussex Ambulance Service trust. Mr Herbert, a Labour Party member, pursued a career in international and merchant banking. He succeeds Martyn Long, who is retiring.
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PCG polls 'should not be run by HA'
An investigation into a botched primary care group election in Birmingham has recommended that future polls should not be handled by health authority officers.
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SEMA Group
SEMA Group is to get the contract to build the National Strategic Tracing Service for the NHS Executive. The NSTS will enable administrators across the health service to trace the NHS numbers of all patients in England and Wales from their names and birth dates. SEMA was one of only ...
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White goods
Scotland's public health white paper is due early next month. Barbara Millar reports on what is likely to be in store
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Going our not-so-separate ways on health and social services spending
In 'Separate ways' (26 November), Paul Jervis and Robert Hazell write that 'the latest figures indicate that Northern Ireland and Scotland receive around 30 per cent per capita more than England, while Wales receives around 15 per cent more'.
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Hundreds of manager posts go in mergers
Hundreds of NHS management posts look set to disappear this April as more than 20 trust mergers take effect. Figures provided by trusts suggest the latest round of reorganisation could save the NHS up to £20m a year.
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Reuters joins exodus from NHS market
Reuters has sold its GP software operations to a French company, Cegedim SA.
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The eagle has landed
Birds of a feather Decentralising public service management By Christopher Pollitt, Johnson Birchall and Keith Putman Macmillan Press 211 pages £14.99
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Drury steps in to new top post
Peter Drury has been appointed head of the NHS’s information policy unit, a new post carrying a salary of up to £95,000.
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Treating the drug-cost headache by tapping into regional expertise
PCGs will be under considerable pressure to cut prescribing costs and obtain the best value for money from drugs.
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Our egalitarian government should halt this drain on the public purse
I received a flyer from QMW Public Policy Seminars, London University, inviting me to hand over £300 of public money (£259 plus VAT) to attend a day seminar on inequalities in health.