All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-01-29 – Page 2

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PUBLIC HEALTH GREEN PAPER SHOULD PUT ITS WEIGHT BEHIND A NEW TARGET

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Congratulations to the Journal for its early publication and analysis of Our Healthier Nation (News, News Focus, Comment, 22 January). Even in your concise summary, the central conceptual flaw in the public health strategy is obvious.
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You'd better believe it

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Coins and stamps aside, anniversary organisers are promising a cornucopia of ideas to celebrate the NHS's half-century, including a series of big- name lectures, debates on mental health services, and a travelling photo exhibition.
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PHARMACISTS AND VETS

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Unison's Karen Jennings (News Focus, page 13, 15 January) should read the Medicines Act again and more carefully. Not only can pharmacists prescribe according to their own judgement, but what they prescribe does not even have to be licensed by the Medicines Control Agency.
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Brown bides his time as Hancock stakes her claim BY MICHAEL WHITE

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Right. Before we start on real life, what do Bill Clinton's Zippergate problems have to do with America's recurring healthcare crisis? A great deal, according to Gore Vidal, novelist, East Coast grandee and critic of what he tends to see as the new Roman Empire.
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SELF-HELP BOOKLET SHOWS TRUST IN THE PUBLIC

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

It is good to know that 50 years on we have at least learned to trust the public and place some confidence in their ability to make sensible use of information and take some decisions of their own about the management of their ailments.
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IN BRIEF

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Four London trusts, three of them running teaching hospitals, had management costs of more than 10 per cent of their total core income in 1996-97, according to the 1998 edition of the Fitzhugh Directory of NHS Trusts. But 367 of the English trusts spent 5 per cent or less of ...
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IN BRIEF

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has announced a 'small number' of Scotland-wide events to mark the NHS's 50th anniversary. They include an anniversary service, a national conference and a concert by the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra.
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Bristol doctors fail to get charges dropped

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Three doctors accused of misconduct over the high infant mortality rate at Bristol Royal Infirmary last week lost an eight-day legal battle to have the charges against them thrown out on the basis that they had no case to answer.
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When it's time to call in CID

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Trials of an American initiative dealing with stress and post-traumatic stress have proved successful, despite initial scepticism. Dolly Chadda reports
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Sacked trust chair with Tor y links is reappointed

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Health secretary Frank Dobson has been forced to reappoint a trust chair with Conservative Party connections less than two months after he sacked her.
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Sing le-trust consultation process condemned by CHCs

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Critics of plans to create a single ambulance trust in Wales have issued a declaration of no confidence in the consultation process, which ended this week.
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In the clear

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Giving patients clear and comprehensible information is crucial. Jane Beenstock and colleagues explain how their hospital has gone about ensuring the information they provide is jargon-free and written in plain English
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Clinicians will get a major role in Scot tish reforms

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Clinicians are to be given a major role in reshaping health services in the first detailed plan implementing the government's white paper reforms in Scotland.
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Frank Dobson

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

One of health secretary Frank Dobson's special advisers has been involved in developing computer systems that will help ministers manage news more effectively. According to press reports, Joe McCrae has been working on a Department of Health system which analyses government activity constituency by constituency. It should allow Mr Dobson ...
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Milburn gets new 'eyes and ears'

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Salford people are blessed with 'courage, determination, wit and compassion, and... an unrivalled ability to see through falseness and to expose insincerity', said the city's Labour MP, Hazel Blears, in her maiden speech last May.
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Nurses' fears for patient safet y - inquiry ordered

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Hospital managers have launched an inquiry after nurses claimed they were so overworked that patient safety was at risk.
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GETTING THE FIGURES STRAIGHTENED OUT

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

An error crept into my article 'Home truths' (pages 30-31, 15 January). It should read:
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View finders

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Involving users in decisions about rationing drug treatments can bring a qualitative perspective to approving new drugs.
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Fund GPs pull out in protest at Labour plan

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

A Berkshire practice is thought to be the first to pull out of the fundholding scheme in protest at the Labour government's health reforms.
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Getting physical:

1998-01-29T00:00:00Z

Getting physical: Aberdare GP Shesh Sahai leads by example with a work-out on a rowing machine. He was among doctors from across south Wales who took part in an 'Are You Fit for Work?' event last week held at a Cardiff fitness centre. Its aim was to encourage doctors to ...