All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-02-11
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Supra? Sounds super
How interesting that Birmingham is the first to discover the benefits of what used to be called family practitioner committees.
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Shark repellent
NHS credit unions can offer staff cheap loans and a way to bypass undesirable lenders, but their numbers are still low, writes Barbara Millar
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Rational thinking
Elderly people have always been marginalised in NHS planning. But it's time to question what rationing and prioritising mean for older people, says Dorothy White
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Over the threshold
Significant variations between hospitals in the severity of illness of patients admitted suggest it is time to draw up an ideal admissions system, say David Lawrence and colleagues
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Protests at low pay offer for managers
Senior managers are to be offered significantly lower pay rises than nurses, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has told trusts and health authorities.
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On the line
The government wants radical reform of consultants' contracts. Wendy Moore considers the likely outcomes
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Lighting up time
How will NICE work? And whatever happened to 'beacon' hospitals? Baroness Hayman has the answers. Mark Crail reports
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Turnberg inspires team share
'Political' considerations have driven two trusts to create a single executive team reporting to two sets of non-executive directors.
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The people who time forgot
Being invited to write for a magazine as well-read by well-informed people as HSJ isn't just an honour, it's downright scary. What can I say to engage your attention when virtually every aspect of the health service has been hogging the headlines in yet another crisis of nursing, funding and ...
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Falklands hospital seeks NHS staff to replace military team
A Falkland Islands hospital is looking for an NHS partner because of defence cuts.
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Northern exposure
Civil servant or health service manager? Northern and Yorkshire's new regional director, Peter Garland, talks to Seamus Ward about his role in an increasingly centralised NHS
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Shift ruling keeps equal opps to the fore
Two nurses have won an important discrimination claim over changes to work shifts which should remind trusts to keep equal opportunities issues firmly to the forefront when introducing new working patterns.
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Trust mergers Worries that women will suffer disproportionate number of redundancies
There is an important additional issue arising from the likely job losses resulting from the current round of mergers (news and 'Bitter pill', news focus, 21 January). It seems most will be among community or mental health trusts. Are we consequently going to see a disproportionate number of redundancies among ...
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Splitting the difference
This year's pay settlement was supposed to make everyone happy. Instead it has been seen as divisive, with some staff groups left far behind. Pat Healy reports
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'Resign if private practice is curbed'
Dr Woodruff Walker, consultant radiologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, believes doctors should threaten to resign from the NHS - potentially bringing down the government - if ministers attempt to curb their private practice. He would prefer consultants to be paid on a 'fee-for-service' basis, as in an insurance-based ...
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County set straight
The table included in 'Bitter pill' shows that Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire ambulance services are proposing to merge with Lincolnshire. This is incorrect. They are proposing to merge with Leicestershire Ambulance and Paramedic Service.