All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-11-19
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'Record' £2.2bn capital deal has strings
The government has announced that it will be investing 'a record' £2.2bn in hospital buildings and equipment next year.
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Milburn puts up £226m for PCGs
Health minister Alan Milburn has given primary care groups a £226m cash boost.
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Longer waits at three in four A&E departments compared to 1996
Waiting times have risen in nearly three-quarters of England's accident and emergency departments, according to a survey by the Audit Commission.
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No disciplinary action for consultant who provided 'inappropriate care'
Patients treated by a Scottish medical director suspended in July received 'inappropriate' and 'sub optimal care', an independent inquiry reported this week.
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Short cuts NHS acts to defuse GP telephone advice fees row
The NHS Executive has issued guidance to resolve a row with GPs over payment for telephone advice. Health authorities were told not to pay for telephone consultations in February, prompting anger among GPs in areas with large numbers of temporary residents. The new guidance says fees should be paid and ...
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Suspensions: doctors not always in the wrong
I was disturbed to read your Comment (29 October) about the suspension of surgeons, 'Crack in the complacency', especially in the light of your sympathetic treatment of poorly performing managers on the same page. The fallacious deduction that an increase in the number of suspensions reveals a greater readiness to ...
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Derbyshire Ambulance Service
Derbyshire Ambulance Service claims to have improved its response performance after its nine-month trial of a mobile computing system. The Medical Priority Dispatch system prioritises deployment of ambulances according to the severity of incidents. Crews carry a 'ruggedised', Pentium- based PC called Databrick, supplied by Datalux, which allows them to ...
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The Institute of Health Services Management stands up and applauds its outstanding director
It is disappointing that Peyman Javidan continues to pursue his criticism of the Institute of Health Services Management's director (Letters, 5 November).
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Short cuts Solihull's public health director is joint appointment
Solihull health authority and Solihull metropolitan borough council have appointed a joint director of public health. Andrew Richardson, previously director of commissioning/consultant in public health medicine with Worcestershire HA, has taken up the post, thought to be the first joint appointment of its kind in the country. HA chief executive ...
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Short cuts 'Institutional barriers' undermine partnerships
Partnerships between the NHS and local authorities are frequently undermined by 'institutional barriers and insensitive management', according to a report from Manchester Business School, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council's management innovation programme. It says managers and politicians need to 'move towards a more democratic form of government', ...
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Labour's NHS reforms put before Parliament
Legislation to implement the government's primary care and quality reforms is expected to be announced in the Queen's speech next week.
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Showing a flicker of life but firing blanks at Dobbo
There are weeks when you wonder how long it will take the Tories to get their act together after the collective nervous breakdown they inflicted on themselves in the mid 1990s. 'I go canvassing - the voters still hate us, don't they?' a former Downing Street official confided at a ...
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New business case thresholds for IT projects
The NHS Executive has announced new business case thresholds for IT project procurements, as promised in the Information for Health IT strategy published in September.
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New buyer for Oxford centre
The Oxford Consortium - the former Anglia and Oxford region computer centre, sold to Computer Sciences Corporation in 1995 - has once again changed hands. It has been bought by the Welsh company Hyder.
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Fiddlers don't call the tune True or not, claims of data manipulation harm public regard for the NHS
The air has been thick for the past week with politicians firing accusations at each other about 'fiddling' the waiting list statistics. Whatever the truth in this particular instance, the episode holds salutary lessons for NHS managers. Experience in the early 1990s suggests that the disciplines of tight performance management ...
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Managers call on GMC for stronger guidance
Managers are calling for stronger guidance from the General Medical Council on the ethical duties of doctors who work as managers.
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Minister stands by primary care trusts timetable despite GP fears
There will be no brakes on the momentum towards creating a first wave of primary care trusts by April 2000, despite GP warnings that the timetable is too tight, health minister Alan Milburn told MPs last week.