All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-11-12
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Settling in
The NHS is being urged both to improve access to healthcare for refugees and to integrate more refugee doctors into the service. Barbara Millar reports
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Professionals with a purpose
'Lengths of stay and waiting lists are ideal measurements, easy to count and to change; kindness and caring are virtually impossible to identify or to measure, so they have largely disappeared from the NHS lexicon'
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Theatre people
Cutting waiting lists depends on high levels of overtime by operating theatre staff, but this is no long-term solution to persistent shortages. Jonathan Edgar and colleagues report on a survey
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monitor
A health authority chief executive who probably wishes to remain nameless reveals the latest government thinking on a new system of patient- centred PCGs. 'The core of the new system will be the establishment of patient consultative groups,' according to a secret document he has helpfully sent to Monitor. Every ...
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The third man
John Hutton is the third member of a now influential political triumvirate. Patrick Butler reports on the new junior health minister's rise to power
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A life in the theatre: survey results
All but one of the trusts identified current nursing and operating department assistant staff vacancies in their theatres. The number of vacancies reported ranged from four to 26 - equivalent to 10 per cent overall.
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Lawyers at large
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99
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Hit or myth
It is a myth that managers motivate their staff. Surely, says Robert Keys, it's the other way round
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The government's response to Utting: main points
All children entering care to be offered a health assessment.
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Take it from the top: Janet Snell gathers a range of views from health managers
Philip Sands, director of corporate strategy, Calderdale and Kirklees health authority
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'No win no fee' stakes raised
The ink had hardly dried on judgments in three House of Lords cases which will increase damages awards by up to one-third in big negligence cases, when the Lord Chancellor decided on another reform which will mean higher legal costs for the NHS.
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Tailoring expected in guidance on working time for NHS managers
The NHS Executive is expected to recommend that all health service managers should be covered by the European working time directive, on which an advance letter is due next Thursday.
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Pro-family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
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New family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
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Distinct improvement
The Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards is to lose its in-built medical majority, although some doubt this goes far enough to justify the system, reports Mark Crail
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Short cuts Nursing home set up to replace long-stay hospital
Edinburgh Healthcare trust is investing £1m in setting up a 16-bed nursing home in the grounds of Corstorphine Hospital. It will be run and staffed by the NHS and will provide accommodation for people with learning disabilities who are moving out of Gogarburn Hospital, which is due to close in ...
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Short cuts Patients at a Scottish hospital
Patients at a Scottish hospital have been asked to bring in their own quilts and duvets during their stay after management admitted running out of bed linen. Staff at Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride had to phone patients who were about to be admitted and ask them if they could ...
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Short cuts Trainee respiratory staff
Trainee respiratory staff are being offered bursaries of £750 towards the cost of attending next year's European Respiratory Society conference in Madrid, or the American Thoracic Society conference in California. Details from Sheila Edwards, chief executive, British Thoracic Society, 6th floor, North Wing, New Garden House, 78 Hatton Garden, London ...