Health Service Journal
2001-05-24
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A double-decker high-tech offering
BOOKS: Excel for Clinical Governance By Alan Gillies Radcliffe Medical Press 256 pages £27. 50 -
Advocacy questions need to be asked
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ALL EARS!
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BMA faces accusations of hypocrisy over ballot
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Caesarean Births
DATA BRIEFING: Caesarean rates in one part of the UK have now reached the US average - and every 1 per cent rise costs the NHS £5m, says John Appleby -
Cash crisis spurred Scots plan
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CHC axe to fall early in Labour second term
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Colleagues mourn John Greetham
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Crisp gives more time to assess NHS planprogress
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Days like this - HSJ 23 May 1991
Conservatives criticise Guy's trust chief. . . Finance director warns HAs. . . Obstetric services axed. . . Hospital slates management consultants. . . Paperwork slows down GP -
Dial M for. . . medical advice
NHS Direct has handled 5 million calls since its launch in 1998, and surveys show overwhelming user satisfaction. But has its impact lived up to expectations, asks Seamus Ward -
DOWN TO THE WIRE - How to take the ham out of IT
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Equal to the task
NEWS FOCUS: The NHS does not have a great record on race relations, but new legislation aims to rectify that by giving patients and staff equal access to services and jobs respectively. Anne Gulland investigates -
Events
Bristol enquiry conference 1 June, Bristol 'The Bristol Royal Infirmary enquiry: implications for the NHS, healthcare professionals and patients' is a one-day Socialist Health Association conference presenting main findings and recommendations, the parents', management and CHC perspective, the consultant's and nurses' role, and Lord Hunt's address on the way forward. -
Flirting with the private sector gets the big kiss off
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GMC clears chief of 'breach of confidence'
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Government should put its own house in order on staff consultation
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HAs accelerate pace of mergers as shockwaves hit staff morale
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Hold that thought
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Identity of the mask is finally revealed
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IN BREIF - Hospital Lie In
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IN BRIEF - British Medical Journal editor quits university
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IN BRIEF - Extra cash needed for stroke research
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IN BRIEF - Liberal Democrats pull out of Kidderminster
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IN PERSON
Edna Robinson has been appointed chief executive of the new Salford primary care trust - one of the three teaching PCTs. For the past two years she has headed the Manchester, Salford and Trafford health action zone. -
Major concerns about minors
BOOKS: Consent, Rights and Choices in Health Care for Children and Young People By the British Medical Association BMJ Books 280 pages £19. 95 -
MONITOR
Monitor has entered purdah. Oh yes, while the politicians are mounting soapboxes (but enough about their personal lives) Monitor has vowed to keep shtoom and not to say anything at all which could tip the 'delicate political balance' which is the run-up to even more New Labour. So Monitor is full of solidarity for the trillions of civil servants pacing up and down the country with masking tape over their mouths (no, wait, I am not going to be rude) to stop themselves emitting noises which cou -
Patient advocacy
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Politicians urged to support mental health
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POLITICS - No more meetings up a dark Ally as Labour puts privates on parade
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Power cuts blamed on 'PFI's aim to cut costs'
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Pregnancy beyond birth not NHS policy
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Pressure on homes can be relieved by more emphasis on care
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QEH defends itself following PM's on-street confrontation
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Reigning cats and dogs
ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A mission to find out more about management cultures when two trusts merged sparked new thinking on developing the organisation, listening to staff - and a sprinkling of animal metaphors. Pam Spreckley and Terence Hart explain -
Report shows there is a long way to go, but overlooks the work of Cheshire staff to help with prisoners'mental health problems
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Royal College of Nursing gives Labour's ma an hostile congress reception
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SHORTCUTS - Dudley strikers return to work with 'heads held high'
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SHORTCUTS - Government sets standards for Scots child health
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SHORTCUTS - Green Party manifesto demands dedicated 'NHS tax'
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SHORTCUTS - Health visitors slam decision to exclude their name
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SHORTCUTS - Parties in clash over private health insurance report
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Spaced out
NEWS FOCUS: The shortage of parking spaces at hospitals may not be the most controversial of subjects but it is an issue that arouses resentment and anger, according to Rebecca Evans and Laura Donnelly -
Take a second look
NEWS FOCUS: It is easy to dismiss Labour's manifesto pledges on health as all too familiar. But beware - they contain more than meets the eye, says Maura Thompson -
Tayside probe hears conflicting accounts
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The big shot
WORKING LIVES: In the first in an occasional series featuring people in unusual NHS jobs, Barbara Millar meets Kathy McFall, medical illustration manager, who has a passion for shooting patients - with her camera -
THE PERSUADERS
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The time, the place
BOOKS: Occupational Health Matters in General Practice ByRuth Chambers, Stephen Moore, Gordon Parker and Andy Slovak Radcliffe Medical Press 208 pages £18. 95 -
Trusts sign up to '£4bn club'
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Why not pay a proper rate for medical secretaries' training and skills?
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