All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-04-27
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Writing on the wall
New Labour's enthusiasm for guidance and targets is well known. But what impact are the guidelines having on the drive to improve Britain's lamentable cancer survival rates? Wendy Moore reports
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Target practice
The general election is some way off, but the first salvos have been fired in the health debate. Patrick Butler gets caught in the crossfire
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Pioneering spirits
In our occasional profiles of professionals in contrasting roles, Maura Thompson asks two health promotion workers to describe their work
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Probation periods
Britain's list of randomised controlled trials runs to more than 500. Geoff Watts summarises a few of the major ones
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Spending pennies
It looks like a financial report. It reads like a press release. The Government's NHS Expenditure Plans 2000-01 is an odd hybrid.
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North-east London trusts to undergo shake-up
Health minister John Denham has announced a major shake-up of trusts in north-east London. Two acute and one mental health trust will take over from four existing trusts - BHB Community Healthcare, Forest Healthcare, Havering Hospitals and Redbridge Health Care.
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Labour set to listen
The NHS this week began the first of a two-part consultation to bring staff and patients on board for its 'national plan' for health.
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Kicking stress
Footballer Stan Collymore launches a guide produced by the Depression Alliance giving young people advice about stress and where to get help. Two young people take their lives every day. A recent poll for the alliance found the greatest causes of stress were money, employment and exams and studies. Almost ...
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On a well-planned journey
Claire Laurent looks at how local providers of cancer services have implemented one-stop shops to speed patients through the system
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It's a stitch-up
A scheme to improve home care and cut the length of hospital stay for elderly patients succeeded by integrating primary care services. David Powell and Ed Peile report
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Rays of hope
Improved imaging techniques mean radiotherapy is potentially capable of saving many more lives - but staff shortages and lack of equipment are hampering progress, writes Jenny Bryan
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Shipman inquiry to question role of West Pennine HA
West Pennine health authority, responsible for the area where Dr Harold Shipman practised, is preparing its evidence for the independent inquiry that is now conducting private hearings in Manchester. Dr Shipman was convicted of murdering 15 of his patients earlier this year. Dr Alan Banks, the HA's GP adviser who ...
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Independent panel for troubled HA
Financially beleaguered West Surrey health authority has agreed to set up an independent inquiry panel to advise on bringing its deficit under control and on future health service provision.
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More harm than good?
There is pressure to extend the UK's two national cancer screening programmes to other cancers. But will the benefits outweigh the risks? Wendy Moore reports
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Stranger than friction
Number-crunching former chief executive Jim Waits encountered political infighting at close range. Now he has written a novel about it. Laura Donnelly reports
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Trusts reprimanded for flouting pay guidance
Trusts in Northern Ireland have been reprimanded after more than half of them flouted government guidance on senior managers' pay, amid a row over its clarity.