Health Service Journal
MATTHEW LIMB
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The fixer
8-Oct-1998
The health service commissioner's effectiveness is subject to increasing scrutiny 25 years after the office was created. Matthew Limb looks at its first quarter of a century and the reigns of the six commissioners to date -
Troubleshooters seek 'root and branch' cure for Welsh deficits
6-Aug-1998
Troubleshooters are being sent in to Cardiff's troubled Morriston Hospital trust to help managers find more than 5m efficiency savings. -
Troubleshooters seek 'root and branch' cure for Welsh deficits
6-Aug-1998
Troubleshooters are being sent in to Cardiff's troubled Morriston Hospital trust to help managers find more than 5m efficiency savings. -
Ministers claim reform schedule is 'realistic'
23-Jul-1998
Ministers this week outlined what they called a 'demanding' but 'realistic' timetable for implementing the next stages of their health service reforms. -
Board games
16-Jul-1998
Three managers named in a report alleging financial mismanagement at a health board have left, while the fourth faces a disciplinary hearing. Matthew Limb reports -
Senior managers broke NHS pay rules
16-Jul-1998
Senior health service managers repeatedly broke NHS pay regulations to award themselves and colleagues thousands of pounds to which they were not entitled, an inquiry has found. -
Babies die due to 'poor clinical management'
9-Jul-1998
Babies are dying because of 'poor clinical management' and the failure of some GPs to detect serious illness, an influential study has found. -
Series of scandals leads to 'legal duty of quality' move
16-Apr-1998
Hospital managers will face legal action if clinical care fails to meet acceptable standards, health minister Alan Milburn announced this week. -
Supertrust signs up £125k chief executive
9-Apr-1998
A £430m new 'supertrust' this week recruited what is thought to be the country's highest-paid chief executive. David Johnson, once a hospital porter, will head Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust. The post carries 'a remuneration package' of around £125,000. -
Trust slams HA 'high-risk disruption' and unveils own rescue plan on Net
9-Apr-1998
A trust which is using the Internet to fight for survival is pinning its hopes on a 'radical' new plan to preserve acute services at three hospitals.
