All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-10-28
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Thousands of nurses abandoned the wards last week and joined picket lines in a national strike over pay and conditions. Hospitals left with just emergency cover immediately cancelled many of their planned admissions and clinics, while some patients were sent home as pressure built up.
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Room with a view
Nurse Helen Coppock reflects on her new flat in Poland House, a nine-storey office block refurbished to provide affordable homes for healthcare workers by Peabody Unite and Barts and the London trust. It was officially opened last week.
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Quietly does it
The Freedom of Information Bill has been watered down, and many vital aspects of health policy will remain shielded from public scrutiny, argue Justin Keen and John Appleby
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Playing up
Three year old Fajer Al-Otaibi, who is deaf, plays with water at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, helped by play instructor Dionne Moodi.
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Performance pay 'will not work'
Offering NHS managers financial inducements to improve performance will not work and could be divisive, a study on motivating senior public servants has found.
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Smarty pants
Dr David Torgerson, senior research fellow at York University, and research nurse Ruth Hildreth displaying a pair of SafeHip shock-absorbing underwear, which has been developed to protect people at risk of fractured neck of femur. They are seeking 4,500 volunteers for a long-term trial to test the effectiveness of the ...
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Monitor
Monitor would like to reassure anyone hanging around Heathrow Airport recently that the finance director of the NHS does not normally wander round clutching a Zulu shield. It's just that Colin Reeves had to stand in for Dobbo at short notice on a trip to sell South Africa's health service ...
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Maiden over?
The NHS's masculine style misses out on female strengths, leadership experts argue. They want to see a new breed of 'hybrid managers' batting for the health service. Carol Harris reports
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Are you listening to me?
England's first joint health and social care trust still has to convince users it works, reports Pat Healy
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Huge survival rate variations
Returns to the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre show that 'on average one of every five ICU patients die on the unit', rising to 'one in three when subsequent deaths on the wards are included'.
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RCN members hit out at Hancock's high salary
Royal College of Nursing members attacked the high salary of general secretary Christine Hancock and other senior staff at their annual general meeting last week.
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Lightly grilled
Only the gentlest heat was turned on health minister John Denham at the distinctly on-message New Health Network's conference. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Do you wanna be in my gang?
This week's annual social services conference should be the last, argues Stephen Burke. It's time to include health and social care in a single event