All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-11-09
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TRUST OF THE YEAR
Winner: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital trust Runners-up: Sandwell Healthcare trust; East Gloucestershire trust
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Stocking's tops
The newly appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency takes up her job with a reputation as a thoroughly 'modern'woman at one with the ethos of New Labour. Laura Donnelly reports
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Quietly does it
The NAPC annual conference was a politically subdued affair this year. Everybody happy, then - or just too busy getting on with the job? Paul Stephenson reports
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monitor
The mountainous world of NHS recruitment gets overshadowed, fears Monitor, by molehills in matters of sport. Luckily funzine HSJ has no time for nonentities of the Kevin Keegan variety when there are real celebs like Nige Crisp to worry about. But this week, the dizzy worlds collide, as a former ...
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Recruitment process makes a mockery of Nolan rules
HSJ sources have attacked the process by which 'the second most important job in the NHS' went to a regional director without the job being advertised.
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IT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Suffolk health authority, the Suffolk extranet Runner-up: Bromley health authority, the Bromley general practitioner clinical system
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Lincolnshire RAZ held up as model of joint working
A Home Office white paper outlining plans to tackle rural poverty and isolation, published this week, will praise Lincolnshire county council's rural action zone as a model of joint agency working to help tackle issues such as bed blocking. The Lincolnshire RAZ, also launched this week, follows the South Holland ...
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MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR
Winner: Grampian health board, commissioning new employment services Runners-up: South Birmingham mental health trust; Wiltshire and Swindon Healthcare trust
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Great white hope
Will the government be able to avoid a politically disastrous 'crisis' this winter - the last before the election? Alison Moore reports that it is putting its hopes on joint initiatives at local level by health and social services
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Two-trust plan 'may lead to ghettoisation'
Plans to create two primary care trusts to cover a city centre are being fought by the local authority which says that it will divide the city along racial and social lines.
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Fenland PCT: a role play with resonance
The presentation was a real opportunity for delegates to get down to the nitty-gritty of running a PCT. And its three chief officers made it clear that, to date, things had worked well because they got on well as individuals and were all committed to the trust.
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Help for refugee doctors seeking work in NHS
A government initiative that could help hundreds of qualified refugee doctors and dentists find work in the NHS was launched last week.
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Managers welcome director of NHS Wales as 'one of their own'
A trust chief executive from Bristol has been appointed as the new director of the NHS in Wales.