All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-05-27
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Rock-a-bye
Jenny Hope (left), midwifery manager at Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, helps Nichola Brown with her newborn son, David, and an elevating cot designed to help disabled parents care for their children. Ms Hope designed the cot in consultation with occupational therapists Mandy Whalley and Gaynor Reid after a disability audit ...
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in person
Tees and North East Yorkshire trust has seven board-level appointments. Moira Britton, who headed the former South Tees Community and Mental Health trust, is chief executive of the new trust. She is joined by chair Eileen Grace, a Labour councillor and deputy leader of Middlesbrough council. Dr Kathryn Gillen, Eleanor ...
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Key points
High-quality, dedicated management support was crucial to the GP commissioning pilots.
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Key points
A system for calculating the cost of clinical audits in terms of money and staff time has been in operation at Brighton Health Care trust since 1995.
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Is your whistleblowing policy up to the job?
Few of the draft policies by trusts and health authorities sent to Public Concern at Work comply with the new legislation. Indeed, the wording of some of them, no doubt inadvertently, makes it more likely that a member of staff will be protected if they make a disclosure to the ...
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How the survey works
Men and women over the age of 16 were asked to rate their health on a five-point scale, ranging from 'very good' to 'very bad'.
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How can podiatrists be regulated by other professions?
Carol Harris's article, 'Toeing the line', (pages 24-25, 15 April) failed to express the concerns of the individual professions allied to medicine about the Health Bill. Current ministerial assurances to PAMs on retaining self-regulation are disinformation: self-regulation of the individual professions is not being proposed. State-registered professions that are currently ...
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The right to fertility treatment
Currently, the NHS limits its funding of fertility treatment. However, article 12 of the convention enshrines the right to found a family (see box 1), which could allow patients to claim fertility treatment on the NHS as of right. Diane Blood succeeded in securing the frozen sperm of her husband, ...
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HAs press for guidelines as refugees move to join families
The government is being pressed to issue new guidance to health authorities and other agencies as Kosovar refugees airlifted to northern cities drift south to join family and friends.
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What's happening: EU health programmes so far
Existing EU health programmes aim to complement rather than substitute for the public health activities of member states. Several action programmes have emerged in the context of the 1991 Maastricht Treaty: on AIDS and other communicable diseases, on cancer, drug dependence, health promotion measures, heart monitoring, pollution-related diseases, injury prevention ...
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Frank discussion:
Patricia Moberly, chair of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital trust, chats to health secretary Frank Dobson and Professor Mike Richards during a ministerial visit to St Thomas' Hospital.