All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-07-20

View all stories from this issue.

  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...

  • News

    In the wars

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    After a growing number of horrifying attacks on hospital staff, trusts are getting tough with their assailants. Phil Coleman reports

  • News

    Stocking's shortage: sock it to them

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Troubleshooters sent in to sort 'red-hot' pressure trust

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    London regional office has sent a troubleshooting team into Barts and the London trust to tackle performance in a month in which the trust has lost its chair and admitted 'red-hot pressures' in intensive care.

  • News

    Picking up the pieces

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    A jointly funded residential service accepts 'difficult-to-place' mental patients, whose care in the community has previously failed. Andy Ward and Jon Woolmore explain

  • News

    in person

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    John Bruce is the new chair of Southend Hospital trust. He was appointed a non-executive director of the trust in 1994 and has been vicechair since 1998.

  • News

    Shape up or ship out

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    More people are heading overseas for non-urgent treatment, many in response to long waiting lists at home. But should the NHS foot the bill? Seamus Ward reports

  • News

    monitor

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Regular consumers of this page may remember one Dr Tara Fields, a lady doctor and Yankee to boot. (In the interests of Monitor's continued fight against institutional jokes about people not from round here, it should be noted that violence against Americans is reckless and not much fun. ) But ...

  • News

    'Matron' to return with revamped role

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn is to use the NHS national plan - set to be unveiled next week - to push the concept of a return to 'matron', HSJ has learned.

  • News

    Nurses, help please

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Out of harm's way

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Doctors who murder are rare. But doctors' deliberate harm to patients is well documented. Paul McDonald argues for better external scrutiny

  • News

    Government should practise what it preaches

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Mind how you go

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Speculation about Scottish health minister Susan Deacon's future continues apace. Colin Wright reports

  • News

    Ex-trust head to make strategy-upon-Avon

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    A trust chief executive, forced to resign following an investigation into the trust's management of waiting-list figures, has been appointed to a strategic role at Avon health authority.

  • News

    Welsh taskforce will have 'extended role'

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Welsh health and social services secretary Jane Hutt has announced an 'extended role' for its winter 'emergency pressures taskforce'.

  • News

    Events

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Empowerment to the people

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Professor Aidan Halligan insists he's not one of the great and the good, but he tells Kaye McIntosh that his clinical governance support team is about delivering a 'patient-centred, staff-owned quality health service'

  • News

    Employers urged to help people with mental illness

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Health minister John Hutton has backed an employment check list to help people with mental health problems into work .

  • News

    Why we must prepare for 'e-health'

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters