All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-07-19
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The view from above
The early days of a PCT may be marked by feelings of loss and ambiguity.It is important to clearly define roles and responsibilities, explains Barbara Kennedy
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Addition to traffic lights in bid to spare high-profile blushes
The Department of Health has decided to introduce an extra category in the traffic-lighting system as speculation mounts about how it can avoid high-profile managers being associated with trusts that are seen to be failing.
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Apology after elderly man is kicked to death
Chief executive of Leicestershire and Rutland trust Martin Taylor has apologised to the family of a 72-year-old man kicked to death by a patient with schizophrenia.An inquiry by Leicestershire health authority criticised the care of Kevin Hewitt, who had stopped taking his medication and had not been seen by a ...
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Show some age concern
Do MPs care about the misery generated by bed-blockers and the inadequate care of vulnerable elderly people? Of course they do. But if they care, why do these problems persist?
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'Bristol has completely reorganised the way we think' Alison Moore asked key figures to examine the impact of Bristol on the wider NHS
Dr Norman Pryde Halliday was medical secretary of the supra-regional services advisory group.
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'No threat' to GMC from new assessment body
The General Medical Council has insisted that it does not see a longterm threat to its role as a regulatory body from the newly created National Clinical Assessment Authority.
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Care trusts on back burner as interest drops
The setting up of care trusts could effectively be shelved as primary care trusts concentrate on the delivery of improved health services, it has emerged.
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Draft guidance on care for elderly people focuses on banding system
Health minister Jacqui Smith has issued draft guidance on how free nursing care will be implemented for elderly people in nursing homes in England.
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'Bar-room' deal claims as top posts are promised in SHAs before consultation
Managers have been promised jobs running new strategic health authorities in 'bar-room deals' even before consultation on the new bodies has started, HSJ sources have claimed.
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PCTs 'HQs' must be based in local communities'
Primary care trusts should be setting up their headquarters within local communities rather than near acute services, according to John Ashton, director of public health at North West region.'Under the Conservatives, we saw a lot of health authorities and trusts have their headquarters on business parks, 'he said.'It was symbolic, ...
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Standards set to beat racial harassment
NHS employers will be ordered to meet a national standard in a bid to tackle racial harassment, the Department of Health is due to announce today.
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Political bias claims continue to dog PCTs
An investigation by the public appointments commissioner has found that measures to correct 'political imbalance' in appointments to primary care trust boards have not worked.
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Nipped in the bid
Healthy-living centres were supposed to encourage health-promoting activities in disadvantaged communities, but so far only 65 of more than 1,000 bids for funding have been approved. What is going wrong, asks Lesley Mountford
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Bristol report triggers tussle over blame for clinical failures
Key figures who played a management and supervisory role in paediatric care at Bristol Royal Infirmary were bracing themselves for a damning report as HSJ went to press.