All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-11-18
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Washing up
A nurse takes part in hand hygiene week, an initiative by Leeds health organisations to persuade healthcare staff and the public to help control infection by frequent and thorough hand washing. It follows a study that found 89 per cent of healthcare workers failed to wash every part of their ...
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Inspiration, not perspiration
The Ambulance Service Association's members don't balk at more millennium planning - they seem to relish it. Laura Donnelly reports
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Waiting lists are 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable'
Waiting lists provide an 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable' method of rationing care and should be scrapped, according to the King's Fund.
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Learning the hard way
An evaluation of training uncovered some harsh realities about student life and significant discrepancies between nursing and other students. Alan Randall and Penny Tamkin report
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Very model of a modern major general
The development of a clinical site management team, made up of nurses, has improved use of beds and allowed more admissions in one district general hospital. Diane Eamer reports
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Mental health green paper includes forcible treatment
'Radical' reforms to mental health law will mean forcible treatment for community patients who refuse to take their medication.
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In tents experience
With an emphasis on 'positive well-being', the Dome's approach to health issues isn't rigorously intellectual. But the Tube link is superb. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Events
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'Prudence, don't leave me'
The chancellor's lady friend will be upset by predictions that the brave new NHS reforms will bring soaring deficits, writes Mark Gould
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HAs will have powers to suspend doctors in performance reforms
Health authorities will be given the power to suspend incompetent GPs as part of a government drive against poorly performing doctors.
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Slow digestion
It has taken half a century, but insights into mortality from a survey on health and nutrition are finally bearing fruit, writes Barbara Millar
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Inquiry finds elderly people need surgery without delays
The NHS should offer a 24-hour guarantee to elderly patients needing urgent surgery, national watchdogs have warned.
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Days like this
NHS HQ moves to Leeds. . . Concerns at timetable for reform. . .RCN tells managers to mind their language. . . AIDS campaign delay. . .
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Short Cuts: Lib Dems hit out over 'sneaking rationing into NICE'
The government has been accused of 'sneaking rationing' into the remit of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris condemned the government's 'dishonesty' in amending the statutory instrument establishing NICE. The first draft of the instrument says NICE 'shall perform such functions in accordance with ...
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Results of public consultation are widely ignored
Few public bodies actually use the results of public consultation to inform decisions about changing services, according to a study published yesterday by the Audit Commission.