Health Service Journal
2001-08-30
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A change is as good as a rest
Health professionals who choose to work in another country get experience of widely divergent health systems - and that is just within the UK, reports Jennifer Trueland -
A poisoned chalice
Social workers get a bad press and are sometimes put in impossible positions.Mark Gould examines their plight on the eve of a major restructure and integration of social care with the NHS -
Another minister orders slaughter of cows
Only a few will benefit from U-turn on treatment abroad -
Back to knees in Neasden?
CONSUMING PASSIONS -
Beleaguered breast-screening unit shaken by top-level resignation
The manager of the imaging directorate which runs a breastscreening unit under investigation by the Commission for Health Improvement has announced her resignation. -
Bristol inquiry proves that managers need proper regulation
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Changing the culture:
Changing the culture: patient advocacy service, Brighton Penny Dunman has worked as patient advocate at Brighton Healthcare trust for over seven years.During that time, she has championed the concerns of many patients and helped to defuse a few time bombs. -
Criticisms of the application process for grants were one-sided and unfair
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Days like this
Change medical training, says King's Fund. . .Qa business services make loss. . . -
do not waste your time and cash on the public - just consult me instead
MACHIAVELLI CONTINUES HIS BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE NHS -
Do senior managers really serve the public or do they prefer to line their own pockets?
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Double trouble
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'Failure' of acute trusts seen as ruse to ease their demise
The apparent failure of many of Scotland's acute trusts to keep within budget could hasten their demise, senior managers claimed last week. -
Fragile Lives: death, dying and care
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Gone West
How does a new chief executive go about turning round a health authority facing seemingly intractable problems? -
Groups: a guide to small group work in healthcare management, education and research
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Lost empires peep from the dust
Strategic health authorities are built on ruins of Byzantine civilisation -
Managers cautious as Milburn backtracks on foreign care
Health service managers have expressed caution over moves to allow patients to receive treatment paid for by the NHS in other European countries. -
Measuring the real impact of medical errors
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues -
monitor
The bon viveurs among you may have noted that Monitor knows how to have a good time. And few moments in the calendar are more exciting than that anticipatory rush of blood that marks the start of the conference season. Ooh, yes! Just look what's dropped through Monitor's letterbox! There is still time to book your place at Parkex International 2001. The clue to the excitement is in the title. It is a conference about... parking! No, really. For information, contact the British Parking Associa -
More than a rubber stamp
More than a rubber stamp: the Patients'Cancer Council The Patients'Cancer Council consists of patients, carers and health professionals and has been running at Leicester Royal Infirmary for the past four years. -
Movers and shakers
Patient groups are getting tougher and more radical. -
Neither partnership nor joint working should be be goals for their own sake
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New panel head faces remit flak
Junior health minister Hazel Blears has announced that GP and former Trent regional chair Dr Peter Barrett will chair the new independent reconfiguration panel. -
News in brief
Professor Ray Jones, director of social services for Wiltshire county council, has been appointed chief executive of the newly created Social Care Institute of Excellence, a not-for-profit company which will evaluate developments and produce guidelines on best practice in social care. -
No quick fix
Three years and £14m later, Professor Rudolf Klein asks whether the cost of the Bristol inquiry represents money well spent -
Number of SHAs drops to 28 as consultation begins on outline
The NHS will next week begin a 12-week consultation on the shape of 28 strategic health authorities. -
Nurses slam overseas students' bursary cut
Unions fear that nurse recruitment will be hit by the government's withdrawal of bursaries for overseas students on nursing diploma courses. -
Past tense, present imperfect, future unpredictable
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues -
Professionals cannot promote health by living without training
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Research in trouble both sides of pond
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues -
Sadism amid the bed pans
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Service has failed to cope with bad research
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Sexual assault case triggers calls for change to complaints system
An investigation into shamed GP Peter Green, who was jailed for eight years for sexually assaulting patients, is expected to call for changes to NHS complaints procedures and moves to strengthen GP accountability. -
St Helier buys time to revive fortunes
The trust which was the subject of the Commission for Health Improvement's most damning report to date has been given extra time to put together an action plan to turn its fortunes around. -
Surely some mistake?
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The New Opportunities Fund has championed en nthusiasm and innovative projects
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THE PERSUADERS
Our weekly guide to healthcare's most influential people -
Trust's open culture praised
The Commission for Health Improvement has praised the 'open culture' of Pinderfields and Pontefract trust, and flagged up its efforts to collect information about risk. It also spoke highly of the trust's attempts to train and educate staff. -
We must change culture as well as structure
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