All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-23

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    What do doctors get up to when no-one's looking? What do they wear beneath their trousers? It is in fearless search of the answers to these questions and more that Webwatch sets off this week for the darkest regions of Doctors.net.uk - a closed community for those initiated into the ...

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    Vacuum task

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Are the candidates for London mayor ignoring health as an issue? As the election - and HSJ's own mayoral debate - approaches, Mark Gould finds out

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    On the slide?

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Whatever their feelings on the government's approach to cancer services, the experts agree more cash and manpower are needed - fast. Thelma Agnew reports

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    People

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Nora Giubertoni has been appointed chair of St Helens & Knowsley health authority, having been chair of St Helens & Knowsley Community trust for the past year and on its board for the previous two years.

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    And what the others said. . .

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Dr Ian Bogle, chair of the British Medical Association council:

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    Monitor

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Direct access rectal bleed clinics! Could anything be nicer? Stockport Acute Services trust doesn't seem to think so, announcing plans to carry out fast-track buttock checks. The logistics of such schemes make interesting reckoning, says Monitor, but in the interests of taste and decency perhaps the matter is best kept ...

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    Joyless triumph

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    A trust's 'achievement' in bringing the first major PFI project to completion has been tempered by claims that the way it has been funded is a 'disaster'. Patrick Butler reports

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    GADFLY

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Today was going to be historic, so I thought it was time to introduce my eldest, Tiny Eric, to the domain that would one day be his. We headed for Tarantino's office at 7. 30 sharp.

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    Glasgow 'superplan' hits flak

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Greater Glasgow health board has proposed a £400m capital programme, funded through private finance, leading to the development of a 'superhospital' at the city's Southern General Hospital.

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    Events

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 020-7874 0254.

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    Standards cannot be lowered to ease staffing

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    RCP reveals plans to gauge heart disease progress

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Physicians this week unveiled plans to measure the progress of NHS services against the national service framework for coronary heart disease. The pilot scheme - funded by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - will be rolled out to cover all acute hospitals offering cardiac services ...

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    Winter of discontent thawed by promise of massive funds

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget was the government's first chance to respond with hard cash to three months of bad headlines about the NHS - and growing pressure to fund healthcare through private insurance.

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    Mind over a difficult matter

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Practising evidence-based mental health By John Geddes, Andre Tomlin and Jonathan Price Edited by Sharon E Straus Radcliffe Medical Press 264 pages £30

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    LHGs will be given time to develop, says Hutt

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Local health groups in Wales will be allowed to develop at a 'comfortable' pace, Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt told a conference marking their first year of operation.

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    Days like this

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Managers told to 'soft pedal' on internal market. . . Disciplinary code for doctors. . . Long-stay patient transfer deemed a success. . .

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    Cut and dry

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The Alder Hey organ scandal, which led to the resignation of Frank Taylor last week, has resulted in new guidance on the issue. Barbara Millar reports

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    MSPs condemn NHS for 'secrecy culture'

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Members of the Scottish Parliament's health committee used a parliamentary debate to attack NHS organisations for operating a 'culture of secrecy and fear'.