All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-02-04

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  • News

    WEB WATCH

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    'We are seeking a smoke-free facilitator (smoking cessation in NHS settings). The postholder will play a key part in piloting a practical tool kit to enable the delivery of effective smoking cessation interventions in the NHS.'

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    Sound post

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    In the second of an occasional series on the progress of Plymouth's health action zone, Laura Donnelly finds that the pressure to deliver means targets are not always as radical as they might be

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    in person

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Cynthia Rickitt has become chair of Priority Healthcare Wearside trust. Ms Rickitt qualified as a midwife and eventually became director of midwifery at City Hospitals trust. Most recently, she was a non-executive director of Sunderland health authority.

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    What the new strategy says

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Sam Galbraith's strategy for dealing with mentally disordered offenders has messages for all agencies - courts, prison, police, social work departments, health boards and trusts - involved with mentally disordered offenders.

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    monitor

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    You may think the Commission for Health Improvement does not yet exist. Undaunted by the fact there is as yet no legislation to set it up, that it has no chair, no chief executive, no staff and no budget, the good old Department of Health has decided otherwise. Monitor understands ...

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    Lessons in market values

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The government's application of 'third way' thinking to the public sector is becoming clearer. At least it is in education , where the private sector is being encouraged, if not actively courted, to apply to provide a range of educational services, run schools and even whole education authorities.

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    Out of kilter

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Scotland has a new strategy for mentally disordered offenders. Barbara Millar reports

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    Welfare and the state it's in

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The welfare state in Britain since 1945 (2nd edition) By Rodney Lowe Macmillan 357 pages £45 hardback/£14.99 paperback

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    Underwriting the moral issues

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Healthcare, ethics and insurance Edited by Tom Sorell Routledge 234 pages £15.99

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    Schism at the IHSM

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Karen Caines says her successor as IHSM director should be someone who 'doesn't mind being slagged off '. But what measures should be used to assess their performance if membership and money are ruled out? Mark Crail reports

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    Scottish high-security shake-up

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Health and social care services for mentally disordered offenders in Scotland are to be overhauled.

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    Heretic

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    A butterfly's wings flapping in a Brazilian jungle, eventually contributing to a hurricane in Britain, illustrates chaos theory. Perhaps the theory also explains why the unanticipated arrival of winter and attendant bed pressures generates a media clamour for nurse education to be removed from where thinking is encouraged. Ironically, the ...

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    Jobs warning as shadow PCGs make firstmove to trust status

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Managers and GPs have warned that further 'wholesale reorganisation' and job losses could follow if dozens of primary care groups decide to move towards trust status in 1999.

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    Feeling the squeeze

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Happy with their lot or keen to move on? Janet Snell asked middle managers how they see their role and prospects

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    Short supply of far-sighted policies

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Events

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254.

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    Dobson plans new grading for nurses

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson has proposed a new grading structure for nurses in a bid to make the nursing profession more attractive.

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    Little 'Red' Riding Hoodwolfs down NHS disquiet

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    So now we know. That 'fair and affordable' nurses' pay rise is not the straight 11 per cent all round as cheerfully predicted in The Sun. But nor is it all going to be financed from a raid on Frank Dobson's NHS modernisation fund. It is a lot more complicated ...

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    Privatisation dispute ends

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    An eight-year dispute over privatisation at a Northern Ireland trust has ended with 500 ancillary workers being taken back 'in-house.'

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    Staff shortage survey to resolve 'stupid' debates

    1999-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson will ask the NHS to conduct an official, open survey of staff shortages by the end of the financial year to resolve 'stupid disputes' between management and staff over figures.