All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-03-11
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Do it yourself:
patient Kevin Groves (left) helps to do up his own hospital with help from chargehand Nigel Carley.
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Safe-cracking
Imminent merger will not lessen the heat on a trust under fire over health and safety. Years of scrutiny are still ahead, writes Barbara Millar
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monitor
Remember that letter from Dobbo asking how to improve the health service? Well, it's exactly a year since he sent it to a million staff in a bid to revive Royal Mail's fortunes. Alas it didn't turn out like that. Despite a deafening silence ever since, Monitor can exclusively reveal ...
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Mind-blowing:
Mind-blowing: a scan of the brain of artist Jayne Gouge, taken by a magnetic resonance image scanner and superimposed on a family photograph, forms part of an exhibition 'exploring how everyday objects look under the exploratory eye of the MRI scanner'. The 'Chimera' show at London's Institute of Child Health ...
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Shorter waits speak louder than words
I noted with interest Stephen Eames' letter (1 February). Mr Eames is acting as the chief executive of the Mount Vernon and Watford and the St Albans and Hemel Hempstead trusts, where he is intent on organising the type of merger he defends.
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NHS lost millions in London site sale
The NHS lost millions of pounds on the disposal of a key London site in a deal with 'lessons' for the NHS Executive, according to a National Audit Office report.
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Looking to lobby
Richard Thomas has spent the past two years 'living in a goldfish bowl' of 'intense media interest' in the future of Swansea's troubled Morriston Hospital trust.
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Key points
Primary care has an ageing workforce. A quarter of GP principals, half of single-handed doctors, and 44 per cent of practice managers in this study were over 50.
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Key points
There are major governance issues for primary care trusts which need to be addressed now.
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Who's who on the inquiry panel
Professor Ian Kennedy (left) chair, is a leading expert on medical law and ethics. Crucially, he is not a doctor but is widely respected by the medical establishment. He has sat on several government advisory groups looking at AIDS, xenotransplantation and quarantine, and is professor of health law, ethics and ...
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McFall 'vision' paper would halve NI trusts
The number of health and social services trusts would be halved and commissioning handed over to primary care professionals under radical proposals launched by Northern Ireland health minister John McFall.
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Nurses gain prescribing powers
Nurses and other health professionals will be given wider powers to prescribe under proposals from the second Crown report into the supply and administration of medicines.