All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-01-15 – Page 3
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Baby deaths case doctors want GMC hearing halted
Barristers for three doctors who face misconduct proceedings following the deaths of babies after heart surgery will this week call for the cases against them to be thrown out.
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Health board workers asked to repay cash
More than a dozen employees of Tayside health board have been invited to repay money to which they were not entitled.
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Only a quarter of bids for HAZ status will get approval
Four times more bids for health action zone status are expected than the government plans to approve this year, the Journal has learned.
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NHS par t-timers' pension appeals could land Treasur y with huge bill
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.
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Angel and death
Angel and death: Marlene Dietrich, the German actress transformed into a screen icon in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, shows how smoking was once portrayed as the height of sophistication. The image comes from Cancer Wars, a four-part Channel 4 documentary starting on Sunday. The first programme focuses on ...
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Always read the label:
Always read the label: a patient gets to grips with half-a-dozen types of medication at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. It is breaking with 25 years of NHS operating procedure by allowing patients to take their own medicines in hospital instead of confiscating or destroying them on admission. ...
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Share and share alike
Health workers in Glasgow are setting out to win a bigger share of NHS resources from richer areas. Barbara Millar investigates
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Aims and values
The aim of the standing advisory group is to ensure that consumer involvement in the NHS R&D programme improves the way research is prioritised, commissioned and disseminated.
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THOUGHTS ON THE REAL ANTI-SMOKING AGENDA
So public health minister Tessa Jowell wants to criminalise those smokers aged 16 and 17, who can presently be legally sold tobacco products (News Focus, page 10, 4 December).
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IT'S HARD TO FIND, BUT INFORMATION FOR DEAF PEOPLE ABOUT HEALTHCARE SERVICES IS AVAILABLE
Nick Mears says that deaf people do not get equal opportunities in healthcare, especially information translated in sign language, which is almost nil (Letters, 6 November).
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Managers will be able to do their job 'more efficiently'
Managers will be able to do their job 'more efficiently' thanks to a new national e-mail system that will be created through NHSnet to link health authorities, trusts, the NHS Executive and the Department of Health for the first time, health minister Alan Milburn has announced. He said the system, ...
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24hr helpline could ease A&E pressures
A London health authority is using pounds195,000 of winter pressures money to launch what may be the first 24-hour nurse-led helpline to divert patients from casualty wards.
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Staff absence costs trusts pounds1.8m a year
Sickness among nurses and midwives can cost individual trusts as much as pounds1.8m a year, according to research.
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