All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-07-08
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WEB WATCH
What tune best sums up the primary care group challenge? Eschewing the obvious Money (or even Money, Money Money), maybe Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown would fit the bill. Not for Bexley and Greenwich PCGs, where visitors to an online PCG theme competition have inexplicably plumped for the theme tune from Neighbours ...
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Days like this
Reassessing community care... HAs warn over planned crown indemnity scheme... New proposals to raise profile of CHCs...
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Short cuts Low vision group highlights sight service problems
A report from the Low Vision Services Consensus Group has found 'long- standing problems' with services for people with sight problems, including fragmentation, patchy provision and quality. The group brought together more than 100 statutory, voluntary and professional bodies providing support and services for people with sight problems. In a ...
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Short cuts HAs use voluntary sector despite its shaky funding
Health authorities are increasingly using the voluntary sector to provide services, but funding is often insecure, according to a King's Fund report. Research commissioned by Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster HA, London Boroughs Grants and the King's Fund from the Charities Aid Foundation found that spending on voluntary sector services ...
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Long-time critic of vested medical interests
If health secretary Frank Dobson was looking for someone who would be unafraid to deliver hard messages from the Bristol inquiry, he did well to choose Ian Kennedy.
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Short cuts Rise in number of nurses and midwives coming to UK
The UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has reported a 'huge increase' in the number of overseas nurses and midwives coming to the UK. Provisional figures for 1998-99 show a 38 per cent increase in the number of people from abroad applying for registration, from 5,946 to ...
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Don't panic: clinging on with magnets
The NHS needs to learn from the past, rather than panic about the unknown, argues Mr Cash.