All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-05-31
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Days like this - HSJ 30 May 1991
Private healthcare set for boom. . . Managers believe reforms will not solve underfunding. . . Waiting list warning. . . Bed closures restrict training. . . Naming and shaming over hours
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Funding is sticking point as private sector pushes for 'concordat 2'
Negotiations for a second concordat between the private sector and the NHS covering long-term care are underway, with funding mechanisms one of the core issues to be resolved.
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Access systems fail on patient 'types'
Health service managers are failing to take account of how different people react to new ways of accessing health services, such as the Internet or NHS Direct, according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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Social services cash crisis will add to acute bed woes
The Registered Nursing Homes Association has written to the candidates of all the major political parties warning that shortfalls in social services finances will mean that many elderly people 'will get stuck in acute hospital beds for weeks on end because there are no nursing home places available to which ...
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GP wins redundancy claim after hospital closure
A GP who was employed by a trust to provide cover at a hospital elderly care ward has won an employment tribunal claim for redundancy payments after the sessions were ended due to the ward's closure. Dr John Campbell, who practises in Ashington, Northumberland, had been employed as a hospital ...
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Royal Free appeals against 'huts for nurses' ruling
The Royal Free Hospital trust has lodged an appeal against a ruling by Camden council that it cannot install temporary accommodation for overseas nurses in the grounds of the trust. Local residents in Hampstead, north London, objected to the hospital's plans to install prefabricated huts on disused tennis courts to ...
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Beleaguered boss quits ambulance trust
David Todhunter, chief executive of Mersey Regional Ambulance trust, has resigned from his post, weeks after being sharply criticised in a report into the handling of an emergency helicopter transfer of patient Julie Donaldson in May 1999.
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Polls apart
Heckling was banned at the RCN's annual congress, whatever the provocation. Tash Shifrin heard the politicians vie for the profession's votes
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Appeal to candidates for HIV/AIDS debate
The UK HIV Policy Forum, a UK umbrella group of 20 HIV organisations, has challenged the main political parties to address the growing urgency of the AIDS problem. In its manifesto, the organisation calls for guaranteed investment in HIV prevention and protection from discrimination for people with HIV/AIDS. Jonathan Grimshaw, ...
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Surely Somme mistake as battle-weary troops hold their ground
You could be viewing this election campaign (still a whole week to go) as a dreary, control freak's dream, every move orchestrated by Labour HQ at Millbank and its rivals. There again, you could see it as a pleasingly chaotic shambles in which things go wrong all the time and ...
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On the ethics border
NHS managers are about to acquire new responsibilities for policing medical research. How will they cope with yet another 'governance', wonders Toni Turner
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Tool shortages cause ENT wait-time breach
Patients around the country - many of them children - are having to wait more than the government's agreed time limit of 18 months for surgery, following difficulties buying disposable equipment for tonsillectomies.