All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-05-25
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Vacuum task
With continuing uncertainty about the long-term future of devolved government, the furious pace of reform in the Northern Ireland health service has juddered to a halt. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Test match
Pathology services are perceived as expensive and their cost-benefits to the NHS are ignored simply because they are long-term. The whole NHS is paying the price, argue Colin Connolly and Dennis Huckerby
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NHS can manage on its own
The government's crusade to rid the NHS of its alleged inefficiencies and unacceptable variations in performance risks overlooking a simple truth: the cure may kill the patient. With the service already in the throes of major change, the announcement of further upheaval - and a national plan to boot - ...
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Women offenders 'victims of shambolic special hospitals'
Most women in high-security hospitals should not be there. They are the victims of a 'shambolic' system that has failed to provide them with more appropriate care, the Commons health select committee has heard.
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Hit and miss
A survey of all practices in one PCG found that many are poorly prepared for the era of clinical governance. Juan Baeza and colleagues report
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Mind highlights injustices for mental health patients
Mind has issued a survey showing that 78 per cent of professionals who responded believe people with mental health problems have difficulty getting justice if they are victims of crime.
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Health needs left out of regeneration plans
Health and social services are frequently left out of plans to regenerate run-down areas, a report by Leeds University's Nuffield Institute for Health has found.
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Hospital warns smokers: 'Give up or go outside'
City Hospital in Birmingham is planning to push smokers outside if they cannot quit. The hospital restricts smoking at the moment, but from 3 July will ban it from all parts of the building, except 'certain areas such as an outside garden which has been set aside for smokers unable ...
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When it's time to get even
A pioneering scheme offering support for staff with mental health problems has put one trust ahead of the rest on employment opportunities. Laura Donnelly looks at the scheme in the light of last week's guidance by the Department of Health
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How Dr Ladyman taught MPs a worthwhile lesson
There are dozens of parliamentary groups, representing well-meaning cross-party interests ranging from abortion and agriculture to world government and youth affairs. I once heard of an MP applying to lead a delegation to Tonga, a lovely spot in the South Pacific. Too late did he discover that it was not ...
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Down the tubes
Trusts have a constant problem in recruiting and keeping laboratory staff, and low pay is the root of the problem. Seamus Ward reports
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Waiting lists - down but not out
Achieving the government's pledge of reducing waiting lists by 100,000 provided 'a foundation to take the battle against waiting into all aspects of NHS care', Mr Milburn said.
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Deacon seeks views on Scottish NHS Direct plan
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has launched formal consultation on introducing a '24hour health and care advice line' to Scotland, which does not have NHS Direct. It will offer health and advice, build links between out-of-hours services and 'provide an improved, more appropriate response to 999 callers who do not ...
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Days like this
Taskforce to rally support. . .London reforms warning. . .Cook's Wales challenge. . .Trust extensions mooted. . .Poll tax idea resisted