All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-04-08
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Secret service
The NHS Executive is to set up a special national authority for security and confidentiality, says its new head of information management and technology policy, Dr Peter Drury.
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Outside the NHS
BT: flat rate of £280 a day for staff on call on 31 December or 1 January plus £55 hourly bonuses, on top of existing bank holiday premiums.
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monitor
Monitor can report that it's New NHS, New Upholstery in Frank Dobson's Richmond House eyrie. Our interior decor correspondent called in recently to find the dull grey sofas of the Bottomley-Dorrell era swept away and replaced by a couple of homely burgundy settees. And at no extra cost, either. Turns ...
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'Nothing like it used to be'
Jenny Bond, the BBC's royal correspondent, has trailed many a royal visitor round various healthcare establishments. She believes the visits are useful. 'I have seen it all around the world,' she says. 'After they leave, the staff and patients' day is brightened and their spirits lifted.
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Inside stories
Parc prison, a privately run local prison with 800 inmates, has contracted out its healthcare to Bridgend and District trust since late 1997.
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Putting the initiatives in initiative-itis
A £1m budget for human resources 'beacons' of 'excellence in managing people' across the organisation. To reward 'positive and imaginative approaches' in areas including recruitment and retention, equality and training plans to support clinical governance. HR beacons will have to disseminate good practice.
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Targeted team's help for homeless people
I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article on access to GP services ('Left out in the cold', page 23, 11 March). It is too easy, however, to blame GPs for failing to address the health needs of homeless people.
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Looking for good information? Try the library
I was surprised to see no mention in your feature on clinical governance ('PA for the course', page 26, 11 March) of the importance of the library and information service in the hospital.
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Equal wage win opens floodgates
Two more NHS trusts face equal value claims following the victory last week of more than 200 female domestic and catering workers granted parity with male porters at Hartlepool General Hospital.
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Magic Mo-ments planned for devolution year
A magic moment it was indeed when Mo Mowlam addressed the Royal College of Nursing congress (politics, 18 March). But in your news focus report of the event, the suggestion that health secretary Frank Dobson 'had better things to do' than address congress is unfair.
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Short cuts Denham plans speed-up on non-executive posts
Health minister John Denham has announced government plans to speed up the appointment of trust and health authority non-executive directors. He told last week's NHS Executive conference on human resources that regional boards had set in place 'work to look at how we can streamline processes and avoid some of ...
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Short cuts Free eye tests for elderly people reintroduced
Free eye tests for people aged over 60 were restored on 1 April, reversing the policy of the past 10 years. The Royal National Institute for the Blind estimates that 500,000 people could have their sight saved as a result. Health secretary Frank Dobson said restoring free eye tests was ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
So, AMIGOS, you're getting a little JIP about MINIS. It is time to address the issue head on with better PR. And if none of that makes any sense, you need the Health and Social Services Glossary of Acronyms, lovingly crafted by South Manchester primary care group lay member Martin ...
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Short cuts Counsellors issue commissioning guide for PCGs
A guide to commissioning managed counselling services has been published by the Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Primary Care. Chair Joan Foster says counsellors, most of whom are on individual contracts, fear that counselling in GP surgeries will collapse with the start of primary care groups, 'despite its proven ...