All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-02-05 – Page 2
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Gro Harlem Brundtland: curriculum vitae
Gro Harlem Brundtland was born on 20 April 1939 in Oslo. She studied medicine at Oslo University, and obtained her MD degree in 1963. She received the degree of Master of Public Health from Harvard University in 1965.
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Putting health on the cards
Will the UK follow France and Germany in giving every citizen a health smartcard, asks Michael Cross
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Has warned: don't rush to set up primary care groups
Health authorities are to be given a stern warning not to rush into making 'premature' arrangements for setting up the primary care groups proposed in the government's white paper.
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Chain store Dixons
Chain store Dixons featured in a newspaper investigation this week after a freelance computer expert was reportedly 'shocked' to find a computer he bought as an ex-demonstration model held personal details about a psychiatrist's patients. The doctor said Dixons had assured him the computer would be wiped clean after he ...
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A tale of four cities
Five inner-city general practices, four very different experiences. Kate Adams describes life for patients and staff at practices in Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow and London
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Walls come tumbling down
There were always doubts about the Chinese wall erected by the architects of the NHS Confederation to divide its health authority and trust arms. The idea that ultimate power could reside in two places simultaneously always seemed unlikely to succeed.
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Prevention is the cure
Crime is a public health issue, and partnership is the way to tackle it if experiences in Los Angeles County hold lessons for the UK.
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BY DAVID HUNTER Putting the 'national' in NHS
'If the theme of integrated care is to become more than just a catchy slogan, the performance management agenda becomes critical. And it has to be about more than sending in high-profile hit-squads. Their arrival is a sign of failure, not of sound management practice'
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O f debatable value
The white paper has little to say about mental health, but one organisation is trying to fill the vacuum via its web site.
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Equally determined over pay
'Staging the award will be a relief to those who would otherwise have to find money the NHS does not have, but it will have done little to inspire the confidence of staff who will see their salaries fall in real terms this year'
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Vive la difference
While Britain and France are becoming are becoming closer in social and economic terms, as far as health is concerned there is a definite air of vive la difference.
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Pay managers the same as other staff, says Dobson
Health secretary Frank Dobson has written to health authority and trust chairs, urging them to give senior managers the same pay award as other NHS staff.
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Doctors reject rescue plans for Worcester
Doctors have rejected Worcestershire health authority plans to re-organise hospital services in the face of an pounds18m deficit.
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WHEN THE PATIENTS JUST DON'T WANT TO KNOW
We were interested to see that the study by Hilary Arksey and colleagues ('Tell it like it is', pages 32-33, 22 January) bears out the findings of a similar study we undertook into the needs of cancer patients' carers in Hillingdon in 1993.1 Their information needs were again identified as ...
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How Dowager Ginny gave poor Frank a headache BY MICHAEL WHITE
Quite the liveliest health question time of the year (actually it was the first) the other day. Fearless Frank tore into the BBC for misreporting a '65-hours on a ward-trolley' atrocity in Surrey. Everyone said 'Happy 40th birthday' to Minister Milburn, and Paul Boateng got rapped on the knuckles by ...
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PERFORMANCE FRAME WORK
WHAT MECHANISMS SHOULD REPLACE 'FINANCIAL COMPETITION' AS THE SPUR TO IMPROVING POOR PERFORMANCE? JOHN APPLEBY REPORTS ON THE NEW FRAMEWORK
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More gain, more pain
We may be living longer, but our extra years are marked by disability or long-term illness. Mark Crail reports on some surprising findings in the latest government statistics
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Milburn orders re-think on Gateshead proposals
Health minister Alan Milburn has asked two trusts to re-examine merger proposals in the light of the government's white paper.
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Ministers give go-ahead to UK's largest teaching trust
Ministers have given the go-ahead to create the UK's biggest teaching hospital trust, ending a two-year on-off merger saga.
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