All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-12-07
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Stealing the show
Three-quarters of all new hospitals are built through PFI - so why is it that the public sector's payback costs are clouded in secrecy? John Mair battles for exposure
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Pressure is on
To overcome the shortage of physiotherapists, the UK is increasingly reliant on recruiting from overseas. But can it be done ethically? James Buchan reports
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Virtually perfect
The NHS could soon have an electronic library if a new pilot works out. But will it ever be 'one of the great libraries of the world', wonders Lyn Whitfield
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One in three people will develop cancer. One in four will die from it. But a year after its formation, the Cancer Services Collaborative seems to offer significant hope for faster and better patient care.
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Job-limbo woman sues
A hospital consultant is suing the Scottish health trust that made her redundant after a five-year dispute.
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'Investing for health' plans to lower NI mortality rate
NHS managers will be expected to produce 'health and well-being investment plans' in a bid to rid Northern Ireland of some of the highest mortality and morbidity rates in the world, health minister Bairbre de Brun has announced.
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NICE 'must listen to patients' on schizophrenia guidelines
Campaigners have challenged the National Institute for Clinical Excellence not to ignore the views of people with mental health problems in its forthcoming schizophrenia treatment guidelines and assessment of antipsychotic drugs.
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MPs' group to push for improved maternity services
Julia Drown MP has launched the all-party parliamentary maternity group, set up to campaign for improvements in maternity services. The group, launched last week with the backing of Royal College of Midwives general secretary Karlene Davis, will be pressing the government to set national standards in maternity services to ensure ...
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NICE fertility guidance leaves HAs struggling
Health authorities must be allowed sufficient time to implement new guidance on fertility treatment from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to ensure they can meet the financial and resource implications, according to NHS managers.
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Green with envy?
It is already possible to predict where health authorities will be ranked in the government's new traffic-light system. But is it fair, ask Chris Deeming and John Appleby
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Question time: search engine needed
Virtual visitors get one genuinely new service - a look at the truth behind recent medical stories, provided by the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination in York.
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Days like this
All but 10 of the 66 applications for the first-wave of trusts have been approved, although consultants Coopers and Lybrand, which appraised all the applications, say only 14 are financially watertight.
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Security crackdown planned for special hospitals
Patients are to be banned from receiving food or tobacco sent from outside Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton special hospitals as part of a security and safety crackdown announced last week by health minster John Hutton. He also announced that patients are to be routinely tested for illicit substances and there ...