All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-07-06
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Stepping stones
Co-operation between health and social services in one area has created a successful intermediate care structure for elderly people, explains Barbara Hitchins
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Swings and roundabouts in Scotland
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon (below) announced an £8.4m boost for the NHS in Scotland which, she said, would fund an additional 110 medical and 210 nursing posts. Half of the 100 junior doctor posts will be for staff working in flexible posts. But the announcement was overshadowed by the ...
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Safety report restricted
An independent report into allegations of poor management and risks to patient safety at a leading radiology department will not be published in full.
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Quite unheard of
Therapy staff, asked for their opinions in the consultation on the national plan, said they felt stretched to capacity, ignored and hard done by compared with doctors and nurses. Enid Feather reports
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monitor
Many people in this country will remember the first summer of the millennium for just one thing: Euro 2000 - hopes of glory dashed by relentless post-match analysis of the society we live in. But some of us are set apart. Beyond the grubbiness, the squabbles and the face-painting. For ...
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NHS 'short of local leaders'
The NHS is 'desperately short of leaders at local level', a senior NHS Executive director warned delegates.
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Remember inequalities are not just a health issue
The World Health Organisation report (news, page 7, 22 June) values our NHS, but also emphasises the inequalities which cause ill-health.
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As long as GPs are paying, they will want a say
The article on stress in general practice examined the relationship between GPs and practice nurses, and between GPs and practice managers, but did not examine one of the fundamental determinants of those relationships.
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Government to look at but then reject private insurance
The national plan for the NHS will examine but 'firmly reject' a move towards private medical insurance, health secretary Alan Milburn announced during an attack on Conservative health policy.
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Glasgow rangers
The Gorbals has got a bit of a reputation - infamous, notorious, hard. Just the sort of place for a coach party of senior NHS managers, in fact.
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Kennedy reaches for his sandbag in a fit of pique
Tucked away in the prime minister's speech to fellow-theologists in Tubingen, the one which suggested on-the-spot fines for Saturday night lager louts, was a heartfelt passage about the pace and pressure of change - in the middle of what Tony Blair called 'the greatest economic, technological and social upheaval' since ...
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'Remove the fear' of the top
Health service management is seen as overbearing, NHS deputy chief executive Neil McKay admitted.
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Eletrocovulsive therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy has been around for more than 50 years, yet information on how it works is scant and treatment data is under-recorded. John Appleby reports
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'Don't focus on pay incentives'
Managers urged the government not to focus on pay incentives for staff in its national plan. The move came in response to speculation that the plan, due to be launched this month, will back performance related pay. After just 45 per cent of delegates voted in favour of individual pay ...
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Deficit inflames row on use of 'extortionate' private sector
The NHS's use of the 'extortionate' private sector has come under the spotlight following the revelation that a south London mental health trust ran up a deficit of almost £1m in two months, largely because of reliance on private beds.
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Don't miss out: the 'other' debates
The ARM supported a motion condemning the introduction of walk-in centres without piloting and evaluation as 'media friendly' but 'counter-productive to the proper deployment of NHS resources'. Dr Tony Lavelle said the centres encouraged 'a generation of supermarket shufflers' to think of medical care in the same way as they ...
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