All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-31
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For an organisation which tends to attract managers at an early age and keep them for life, the NHS has never been that good at maintaining a collective memory. Its tendency to look for scapegoats when things go wrong and willingness to sacrifice whole generations of managers to organisational change ...
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Turning up the volume
London's large Bengali population is benefiting from a local Bengali-speaking audiology services worker. Brian Hall and Dr Tony Sirimanna report
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Serving from the shadows
It's not always a fair and open process, nor is it always straightforward. Judith Smith and colleagues report on appointments to PCG boards
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in person
Peter Coles , acting chief executive of Forest Healthcare trust, is to become chief executive of the new Whipps Cross Hospital trust when it is formed next April. The new trust will manage the general hospital services currently run by Forest Healthcare. Mr Coles was previously chief executive of the ...
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monitor
Great to hear that even bouncer Milburn's special advisers have a sense of humour! Hard to imagine, though! Still, news in from one of Monitor's special friends to reveal that the day after the NHS plan emerged, the following message was heard on the answerphone at special advisers HQ: 'Our ...
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Minister steps in to organ row
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has agreed to meet parents and relatives of babies and children whose organs were removed and kept by an NHS hospital.
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Less is more
That the NHS plan has so little to say on mental health is actually a sign that the government is pretty much on the ball in this area. Laura Donnelly explains the paradox
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It's good for systems to talk
'It looks like we are inventing the wheel again, and it's going to be square'
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Welsh waiting lists record rise and fall in numbers
Welsh waiting lists have dipped again, falling 400 in the month to the end of July to 80,111.
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Fading from the scene - an unworthy end for HAZs
If this once-cherished initiative is to go, ministers must tell us straight
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Don't look now
In the face of the national shortage of laboratory services should doctors restrict their requests for tests, asks David Garrioch
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Days like this
Health authorities will not have completed genuine separation of their purchasing and providing functions by the government's deadline of next April, according to King's Fund fellow Chris Ham. He predicts it could take three years. His report for the NHS Management Executive, Holding on While Letting Go , says: 'It ...
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Korner data pioneer dies
NHS information pioneer Edith Korner and her husband Professor Stephan Korner have been found dead at their home in Bristol. Police do not regard the deaths as suspicious.
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How to be a 'devious cynic' in five easy steps
'Managers still fail to recognise that all this guff about managerial standards and processes is spin doctoring'
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Something completely different
The NHS plan could be the death knell for regional offices, or it could mean they'll be busier than ever. Mark Gould assesses their future
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Cut to the chase
The NHS has long been thought of as a soft touch for criminals. But now managers are being given the chance to catch fraudsters. Mark Gould reports
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Specialists call for extra cash to remedy geriatric care's 'failings'
Geriatric care specialists called yesterday for NHS funding for care homes to be doubled to tackle 'haphazard' services.