All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-11-09

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  • News

    WEB WATCH

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    As paramedics cut away the remains of the wrecked vehicle, a voice-over intones: 'The nearest hospital is 20 minutes away - and she only has 10 minutes to live.' The picture pans across to take in a descending helicopter. 'The air ambulance will have her there in five.'

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    TRUST OF THE YEAR

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Winner: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital trust Runners-up: Sandwell Healthcare trust; East Gloucestershire trust

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    Stocking's tops

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The newly appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency takes up her job with a reputation as a thoroughly 'modern'woman at one with the ethos of New Labour. Laura Donnelly reports

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    Quietly does it

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    The NAPC annual conference was a politically subdued affair this year. Everybody happy, then - or just too busy getting on with the job? Paul Stephenson reports

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    in person

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Dame Barbara Mills, former director of public prosecutions, has been appointed a non-executive director of the Royal Free and Hampstead trust.

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    monitor

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The mountainous world of NHS recruitment gets overshadowed, fears Monitor, by molehills in matters of sport. Luckily funzine HSJ has no time for nonentities of the Kevin Keegan variety when there are real celebs like Nige Crisp to worry about. But this week, the dizzy worlds collide, as a former ...

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    Message in a virgin

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Recruitment process makes a mockery of Nolan rules

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    HSJ sources have attacked the process by which 'the second most important job in the NHS' went to a regional director without the job being advertised.

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    Less jaw, more trousers

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The clinical governance train is gathering momentum.

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    IT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Winner: Suffolk health authority, the Suffolk extranet Runner-up: Bromley health authority, the Bromley general practitioner clinical system

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    Lincolnshire RAZ held up as model of joint working

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    A Home Office white paper outlining plans to tackle rural poverty and isolation, published this week, will praise Lincolnshire county council's rural action zone as a model of joint agency working to help tackle issues such as bed blocking. The Lincolnshire RAZ, also launched this week, follows the South Holland ...

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    MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Winner: Grampian health board, commissioning new employment services Runners-up: South Birmingham mental health trust; Wiltshire and Swindon Healthcare trust

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    Great white hope

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Will the government be able to avoid a politically disastrous 'crisis' this winter - the last before the election? Alison Moore reports that it is putting its hopes on joint initiatives at local level by health and social services

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    Two-trust plan 'may lead to ghettoisation'

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Plans to create two primary care trusts to cover a city centre are being fought by the local authority which says that it will divide the city along racial and social lines.

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    Need more focus on fuzzy idea of governance

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Fenland PCT: a role play with resonance

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The presentation was a real opportunity for delegates to get down to the nitty-gritty of running a PCT. And its three chief officers made it clear that, to date, things had worked well because they got on well as individuals and were all committed to the trust.

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    Events

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    What exactly is the NHS good at, Dr Walshe?

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Help for refugee doctors seeking work in NHS

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    A government initiative that could help hundreds of qualified refugee doctors and dentists find work in the NHS was launched last week.

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    Managers welcome director of NHS Wales as 'one of their own'

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    A trust chief executive from Bristol has been appointed as the new director of the NHS in Wales.