All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-01-15 – Page 2
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YES, VAT IS A PROBLEM FOR PFI SCHEMES, BUT IS THERE A RISK OF THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG?
Hugh Love (Letters, 4 December) is right to raise the problematic issue of VAT and its effect on affordability in private finance initiative schemes.
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Health secretary Frank Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson chats to patient Jean Boyle after officially opening Huddersfield Royal Infirmary's pounds1m critical care unit last week. Because of funding problems, the eight-bed unit has been running half-empty since it started accepting patients 18 months ago. The four intensive care beds at the unit have already ...
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Measures will help NHS fraud crack-down
Health authorities will be given access to GPs' accounts so they can investigate suspected fraud more easily, health minister Alan Milburn has announced.
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Hospital project is 'proof' of new co-operation in NHS
An agreement between a health board and two trusts to build a new children's hospital in Scotland was hailed last week as proof of a new climate of co-operation in the NHS.
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Consuming passions
A Department of Health initiative could start a consumer revolution in healthcare research, claim its supporters. Annabelle May reports
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Sur vey confirms health inequalities
A national survey confirming substantial health inequalities is set to inform ministers' decisions on the location of health action zones.
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Community spirit
One of the UK's smallest community trusts and its local GPs have set in motion a proposal to merge and create the UK's first primary care trust. Patrick Butler reports
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COMMON WAITING LISTS COULD MEAN MORE MONEY
Moves to establish common waiting lists could have positive financial implications for the NHS.
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BY CHRISTINE HANCOCK Party to a vision of the future
If nothing else, 1998 will be a landmark for the NHS. Its year- long 50th birthday party starts this month, even though the balloons and birthday cake will have to wait for the celebrations which will mark the first 'NHS Week' in July. The mood is deliberately upbeat, but for ...
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Derbyshire inquir y: police examine case notes
A police investigation into deaths of patients at a psychiatric hospital in Derbyshire is examining the case notes of 26 people who were cared for on a single ward.
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FIGURES FOR THE 'VICTIMS OF COMMUNITY CARE', AND HOW TO REDUCE THEM
There is little with which we would disagree in John Mahoney's analysis of community care services for severely mentally ill people (Letters, 18 December), the principal focus of the Zito Trust's campaign being precisely those areas and issues he describes.
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Leaders signal merger of primary care lobby groups
Primary care leaders last week signalled their willingness to enter talks about a possible merger of the three main lobby groups.
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IN BRIEF
The deaths of as many as 24,000 people a year may be accelerated by the short-term effects of air pollution, the Department of Health's committee on the medical effects of air pollutants has concluded. But it noted that most of the deaths occurred among people with existing, long-standing illnesses.
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IN BRIEF
Director-general of fair trading John Bridgeman has announced that he will ask the Restrictive Practices Court to overturn its 1970 decision allowing drug companies to fix the price of branded, over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. The decision has angered drug companies and pharmacy pressure groups who claim the abolition of re-sale price maintenance ...
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Managers believe there are too many trusts
Most managers believe there are too many trusts and that services need to be reconfigured, a survey shows.
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Work set to begin on biggest PFI hospital
The government has given the go-ahead for construction work to begin on the biggest hospital being financed through private funds.
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Keep your eye on the ball
So not only does England only ever win the World Cup under a Labour government, but the weather is better, too. Even under the present regime no spin doctor has yet had the brass neck to claim cause and effect. But it does seem that health secretary Frank Dobson and ...
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WHY DIET IS A CRUCIAL BUT NEGLECTED PART IN NURSING PATIENTS BACK TO GOOD HEALTH
The views expressed by Patrick Duffy of NHS Supplies (Letters, 4 December) are endorsed and, indeed, voiced repeatedly by the state-registered dietitian. The evidence for the positive contribution of nutrition to clinical outcomes is well documented; however, patients still go hungry in hospital.
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