All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-03-04
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Wait watchers
Casualty Watch observers returned to their posts one month on from a national exercise to discover all was not well. Barbara Millar reports
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Not so private: views on PFI
'There were a lot of hopes pinned on PFI. I think in terms of its aspirations it was seriously flawed. A lot of the schemes were predicated on pretty poor foundations. The only way they were ever going to be viable was by including so many of the support services ...
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Other recommendations of the report
A single pay spine should be introduced for all NHS staff, including ancillary workers.
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The public has a part to play in NHS rationing
In your recent news focus ('Arousing debate', page 12-13, 4 February) about the government's plans to limit prescribing of Viagra, I read with much interest Professor Ruth Chambers' comments that health secretary Frank Dobson 'fell at the first hurdle...' because 'if rationing is to be effective, you have to carry ...
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monitor
It was fluffy bunnies at the local animal sanctuary (Monitor, 18 February). But now Monitor can reveal the real John Hutton. He is born to be mild. Our man in the waterproofs and trilby crash helmet was ushered into the junior health minister's presence last week to hear about government ...
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Welsh NHS stocktake is a surprise to managers
Managers have been baffled by the announcement of a major 'stocktake' of the NHS in Wales.
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'Shaking off the poor law': the report's recommendations
The Royal Commission on Long-Term Care calls for a 'new contract between the individual and the state'. Chair Sir Stewart Sutherland said it was time for care of elderly people to 'to shake off its 'poor law' past and become part of a modern Britain'.
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Key points
The position of large teaching hospitals in the NHS is being challenged by changing patterns of medical education and the expansion of services offered by acute hospitals.
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Key points
A survey of 30 trusts in the West Midlands, conducted last summer, found only four ready to implement a plan for evidence-based medicine and clinical governance.
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The new insurance pool: what it will include
In August last year, then health minister Alan Milburn announced that from this April English trusts would no longer be allowed to buy their non-clinical insurance on the open market. They would join a new insurance pool, to be administered by the NHS Litigation Authority, the body that looks after ...
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A prescription for improvement
The National Prescribing Centre's GP prescribing support document recommended several improvements to prescribing in the new NHS:
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High hopes:
Colin Brown, a junior member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, leads a team putting up bird boxes at a Wolverhampton hospital.