All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-07-12
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11th-hour bid by Tayside chief to clear his name
The chief executive designate of Bart's and the London trust, heavily criticised in the longawaited report on the financial problems at Tayside, made an 11th-hour bid to clear his name, it has emerged.
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Estates'PPP initiative attracts 135
More than 135 companies have expressed an interest in the £600m public-private partnership set to take over NHS Estates' trading arm, following its separation from the organisation's policy and regulatory functions.
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Fritchie offers backing for abolition-threatened CHCs
Dame Rennie Fritchie has publicly vouched support for the work done by community health councils, in a move that appears to distance her from government policy, which is set on abolishing the patient watchdogs.Dame Rennie, commissioner for public appointments, made her comments following a conference of 100 members of London ...
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Shot in the arm for capital's drug and alcohol addicts
The Greater London Authority today launches a programme aimed at reducing the harm caused by alcohol and drugs in the capital.The London Alcohol and Drug Alliance is a partnership of NHS, local government, police, prison and voluntary-sector groups which aims to develop an alcohol policy for the capital within 12 ...
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London trusts to check on quality of agencies
A project which will allow London trusts to check cost and quality ratings for staff agencies before they hire them is to be launched in September.
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Nurse regulation plans will 'fail'on all counts
Government proposals for a new regulatory authority for the nursing profession would not only fail to enhance public protection and speed up professional conduct processes, 'but if enacted would achieve the opposite', the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting has announced.In its response to the government's draft ...
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Minister moves swiftly to allay mental health groups' 'fears over social control
New health minister Jacqui Smith has offered hope to mental health groups concerned by the tenor of proposed law reforms by ruling out the use of preventive detention and promising to make sure compulsory powers are used with 'an emphasis on therapeutic intent'.
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CHI overhauls its review process to allay criticism
The Commission for Health Improvement is redesigning its clinical governance review process in a bid to get closer to the 'heart' of the hospital patient's experience.
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Fury follows Bogle's attack on government
British Medical Association chair Dr Ian Bogle's attack on the government at the organisation's conference last week reportedly left health secretary Alan Milburn livid, particularly as Dr Bogle is one of the signatories to the NHS plan.
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Strategic health authorities will intervene 'on big things'
conference focus : The new strategic health authorities will not be HAs at all, delegates were told.In fact, PCTs will take over the traditional HA function.
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Pulling back the screens
open space : The death rate for breast cancer has been falling for a decade, but nobody is clear why.Jo-Ann Mulligan and Anthony Harrison ask how the NHS and Whitehall can assess the value of healthcare in this field
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Behind closed doors
comment : Anxiety about traffic-lighting persists as day of reckoning approaches
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in brief
NHS waiting lists rose by 0.9 per cent during May 2001 and now stand at 1.03 million in total.The figures reveal the second consecutive monthly increase but the Department of Health has claimed the rise was due to the introduction of single-use instruments for tonsil and adenoid operations, and a ...