All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-02

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  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Five years have passed since the then Conservative government asked the Clinical Standards Advisory Group to review services for children with cleft lip and palate, and two years have gone by since it reported back. But progress to date on putting its sweeping proposals for consolidation and reform into practice ...

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    Scapegoats in the wilderness

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Sir Alan Langlands is not alone in leaving his job sooner than expected. But at least he left amicably - unlike other victims of the NHS's habit of ridding itself of chief executives in mid-contract. It's such a waste, says Andrew Wall

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    Suicide reduction targets 'unrealistic'

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Government targets to reduce suicide rates are unrealistic and cannot be achieved among mentally ill people, both planners and users of mental health services agreed last week.

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    Power with responsibility

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Harold Shipman has now spent the first four weeks of the rest of his life in prison. The NHS, meanwhile, will have to grapple for some time to come with the issues his case has raised.

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    in person

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Toni Letts will become chair of Croydon health authority on 1 April.

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    Monitor

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Monitor has a soft spot for the government's beacons scheme.

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    Sounds of shackles loosening

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Blair's statement is just one sign that managers may win more freedom

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    Knock knock

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Presenting mental health in a good light is an uphill struggle to combat negative press coverage. Laura Donnelly reports

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    Super groupers

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Inclusivity and partnership will be major features of PCG clinical governance plans, due next month. Jenny Cook looks at how one practice tackled the issues

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    Grey matters for the Milburnians

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    The first thing I did when I heard that Alan Milburn was making sweeping changes in the Department of Health's top management structure after Sir Alan Langlands' sudden departure was to ring a well-placed senior official close to the top of the Whitehall tree.

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    Events

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

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    Organisation only as strong as its employees

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Troubled GP intranet project to lose top man and deputy

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    The project struggling to link GP and NHS computer networks is to lose both its head and deputy this month.

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    Point of departure

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Is Alan Milburn going to seize the opportunity presented by Sir Alan Langlands' resignation to bring frontline managers to the very top of the NHS? The policy rumours have been flying thick and fast this week, reports Lyn Whitfield

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    Scottish dental staff in protest over pay deal

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Dental nurses and ancillary staff protest outside Glasgow Dental Hospital against a three-year pay deal.

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    Days like this

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Managers back performance pay. . .Latest ambulance strike offer. . .Clarke censure fails. . .New offices for NHSE. . . St Thomas' trust anger

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    Heart of darkness

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    A shake-up of transplant services may outlaw racist conditions, but will it do anything to address the shortfall in available organs, asks Barbara Millar

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    Greens propose free fruit for children in London

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Free fruit would be distributed to all London schoolchildren if the Green Party won control of the new Greater London Assembly. Darren Johnson, the party's candidate for mayor, has announced that European surpluses of fruit, including 100 million apples, would be distributed. He added that the health of children from ...