All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-02-03
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WEBWATCH
Few healthcare organisations in this country have managed to create the sort of virtual professional communities to which the Internet seems so well suited. It will come - but first people have to conquer the reticence that leaves so many discussion forums with enough significant silences to fill a Harold ...
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Time for tea
An elderly patient tucks in while waiting for a bed at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, during the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales' annual Casualty Watch on Monday. The longest waits revealed by the snapshot of 240 accident and emergency departments were both at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow: ...
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Right on queue
Conservative Party leader William Hague and chair Michael Ancram launch a poster attacking the government's record on waiting lists.
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Saddle up, pardner
A lot of people still need convincing that the arranged marriage between local government and the health service will be mutually rewarding. Maura Thompson sat in on their joint conference
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Old testament
PCGs are ducking their responsibilities if they cling to the argument that older people are not interested in consultation on services, say Margaret Edwards and Emilie Roberts
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Moving story
An adult placement scheme for residents of a long-stay hospital that is due to close has provoked controversy, writes Colin Wright
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Time is money
A trust which audited the contribution of its volunteers found it was worth thousands. Paddy Browne reports
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List target strategy is 'misconceived'
The government has come under renewed fire from the King's Fund for its 'misconceived' strategy on waiting lists.
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Lawyers in row over mediation
Lawyers have clashed over why government-funded research into the use of mediation to stem a rising tide of NHS litigation failed to attract a significant number of cases.
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Variable interest
Given a government obsessed, some would say, with inspection in the NHS, what will the Audit Commission's future role in healthcare be? Lyn Whitfield reports
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Milburn looks to policy implications of Shipman
Health secretary Alan Milburn has moved to defend the family doctor service after the Shipman murder trial.
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How the scheme will work
'We believe that we shall have some patients placed in the community soon, although the transfer will be incremental rather than a large number transferring at once, ' says Sue Newton, development manager with charity PSS.
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Terry Hanafin: 'That job's got my name on it'
Terry Hanafin joined the Audit Commission in October from Croydon health authority, where he was chief executive.
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Game for a scarf
Ruth Glentworth, a volunteer from charity Headstart, helps Vera Scott learn to use a headscarf and hair fringe to mask hair loss at Manchester's Christie Hospital.
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NHS funding
Throwing more money at the NHS in a bid to match health spending in other countries will only create a self-defeating cycle of higher and higher expectations, writes John Appleby