Health Service Journal
BY PAT HEALY
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Angry MPs call for end to 'blurred roles' between health and social services
14-Jan-1999
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IHSM ensures leaders will face contested elections
28-May-1998
Efforts by leaders of the Institute of Health Services Management to ensure that their successors face contested elections appear to have paid off. -
Langlands blames 'the way we were' for Kent cervical smear test scandal
28-May-1998
NHS chief executive Alan Langlands confessed to feeling 'uncomfortable' when he was grilled by MPs last week on the performance of the beleaguered cervical screening programme. -
Spend more on services for severely mentally ill, experts tell ministers
21-May-1998
Ministers must spend more on developing mental health services, targeting severely mentally ill people in deprived urban areas for intensive help, leading professionals urged this week. -
Glimmer of hope for Lighthouse after Treasury approves emergency loan
14-May-1998
A London health authority has been given Treasury approval to make a loan of up to pounds925,000 to keep the London Lighthouse centre for people with HIV and AIDS going until the end of -
MPs condemn standard of leadership at heart of NHS
14-May-1998
MPs this week condemned the 'poor care and poor management' of many trusts and health authorities investigated by the health service commissioner and demanded that NHS central management take a closer interest in the performance of all NHS bodies. -
Former chief executive denies clinical responsibility
7-May-1998
A former hospital manager claimed last week that 'crossing the bridge' from being a doctor to becoming a chief executive meant he could be held to account only as a manager. -
Union urges parity for Scottish chiefs
19-Feb-1998
Senior managers in Scotland should be brought back into the NHS bargaining framework and their terms of employment overhauled, Unison has told the government. -
Executive halts ACHCEW legal service tender bids
12-Feb-1998
Health officials have abandoned moves to find new lawyers for a national patients' group. -
Pay managers the same as other staff, says Dobson
5-Feb-1998
Health secretary Frank Dobson has written to health authority and trust chairs, urging them to give senior managers the same pay award as other NHS staff. -
Unions are united against attempt to phase pay rises
29-Jan-1998
Health unions this week presented a united front against rumours that the government may phase this year's pay awards to keep public spending within limits set by the previous Conservative government. -
CHCs ask Dobson to act over legal ser vices tender
22-Jan-1998
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been urged to intervene to stop high street lawyers taking over the legal service of the Association of Community Health Councils of England and Wales. -
Managers slam 10% union pay claim as 'catastrophic'
22-Jan-1998
Managers' leaders have slammed as 'catastrophic' the 10 per cent pay claim by Unison on behalf of 256,000 NHS staff not covered by pay review bodies. -
NHS par t-timers' pension appeals could land Treasur y with huge bill
15-Jan-1998
Thousands of part-time health workers could win better pensions under a series of test cases to be heard in the House of Lords next week. -
Charges 'will not benefit NHS'
8-Jan-1998
There is little economic sense in introducing new charges into the health service, a study from the Office of Health Economics concludes.
