All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-03-18
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Rationing and privatisation are not solutions
Dorothy White has highlighted the often covert discrimination in the NHS exercised against older people ('Rational thinking', 25, page 11 February).
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Staff strike as PFI row rumbles on
Indefinite strike action by staff protesting against a private finance initiative project was due to start this week at one of London's largest trusts.
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Trusts 'saving on nurses'
Trusts must stop trying to save money by employing fewer senior nurses, Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock demanded last week.
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monitor
Like all good media barons, Lord Monitor was present in the Upper House for the committee stage of the Health Bill. It was not a good day for the fragrant Baroness Hayman, who got into difficulties defending the Commission for Health Improvement's absolute right to say anything it likes about ...
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Non-medical members of the team have much to offer
GPs have dominated discussion of the NHS reforms, with less attention paid to the views of non-medical members of the primary health team. In our shadow primary care group - which covers 87,000 patients and 15 practices - anecdotal evidence suggested that staff felt uninformed about PCGs and were anxious ...
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Matron does the rounds
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe was in fine form at the Tories' spring forum and put PCGs on notice. Patrick Butler listened in
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Making sure we're on target in Scotland
Your news focus on the Scottish public health white paper (page 14, 25 February) contained an error. The targets for coronary heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular disease apply to the population aged under 75.
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Merger sees number of trusts halved
The outcome of consultation on plans to merge trusts in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan has been announced.
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When funding is a Lottery
Bethlem and Maudsley trust chief executive Eric Byers attacked bidding systems used to distribute modernisation funds as 'modelled on the National Lottery'.
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Help us find where the missing nurses have gone
Many readers will have seen the coverage of our initiative to drop a 'back to nursing' leaflet through all 80,000-plus letter boxes locally (news focus, page 9, 11 February). It has been the most cost-effective method we have so far used to identify potential job applicants.
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Temperamental e-mail puts plan to link GPs with NHSnet on hold
Moves to put all GPs on to the NHS's national communications network are being delayed amid a flood of complaints about the unreliability of its electronic mail service.
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