All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-06-24
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
Two-way traffic
When two hospitals merged acute services, the challenge was to give both sites access to fast and reliable pathology laboratory test results, explains Peter Mitchell
-
News
SMS
SMS looks likely to win a multi-million-pound hospital IT contract in the north of England following Siemens' withdrawal from the two-year tendering and procurement process. Royal Hull Hospital and East Yorkshire trusts had been working together in a project to replace their ageing ICL-designed IRC patient administration systems. Having originally ...
-
News
Unknown quantities
Devolutionary politics has thrown up a fresh generation of politicians in Scotland and Wales. Patrick Butler introduces the newcomers
-
News
Pooling resources
Perspectives in public health Edited by Sian Griffiths and David Hunter Radcliffe Medical Press 309 pages £25
-
News
Speed merchant
The PCG tool kit Second edition By Roy Lilley Radcliffe Medical Press 144 pages £30
-
News
What have we learned?
The first lesson was that producing a HImP was a huge task, with many other initiatives competing for resources.
-
News
Party time is here to stay
Nursing and politics Power through practice Edited by Abigail Masterson and Sian Maslin-Prothero Churchill Livingstone 249 pages £15.95
-
News
Hutt outlines health vision for Wales
Members of the Welsh Assembly have been asked to draw up a new primary care strategy before the end of the year.
-
News
Resistance fighters
Antibiotic resistance is a major problem for clinicians, but computer systems can help by automating testing and reporting procedures, writes Peter Mitchell
-
News
Trial and error
The methods for best caring for people with severe mental illness are in the dock, but the evidence on assertive outreach and personality disorder is sadly lacking, reports Laura Donnelly
-
News
Drugs IT man for top NHS job
A pharmaceutical industry IT professional has been appointed as chief executive of the NHS Information Authority.
-
News
DoH floats suspensions time limit
The government's review of consultant suspensions is considering proposals for a 12-month limit to control the 'inordinate amount of time' devoted to some cases.
-
News
Distant relations
A Highlands trust that has to communicate with GPs in far-flung areas is using an intranet-based system to send test results electronically. Peter Mitchell explains how it works
-
News
We earn our respect - and without effective sewage systems, you would have died of the plague by now
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and to express it. But Professor Maynard, who I have always respected as a fair and decent human being, has contravened the rules by which a free society exists and flourishes.
-
News
Standard deviation
The private sector is to get its own equivalent to the Commission for Health Improvement. Barbara Millar gauges reaction to the proposal
-
News
Dangers of target practice
Surely the highlight of the NHS Confederation conference for managers was to hear a secretary of state for health say in an important speech that there was a need for 'high-trust' relationships within the NHS and a commitment to the 'learning organisation'?
-
News
Scottish talks open cracks in pay system
Trade union leaders are to meet Scottish Office officials today to discuss the future of pay negotiations under the Scottish Parliament.