All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-02-12 – Page 2

  • News

    Cambridge clean-up

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    In Cambridge, health and local authorities are working together to reduce the impact of air pollution on the city centre and to improve the health, quality of life and the environment of those who use it.

  • News

    Part-timers' pension cases go to Europe

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Test cases affecting the pensions of thousands of part-time health workers were referred to the European Court of Justice by the House of Lords last week.

  • News

    Cash on delivery

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Despite last week's resignation of the Lottery regulator, and calls for tighter control of the game, the Lottery remains an enticing source of funding. But tapping it is far from simple. Barbara Millar reports

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    Newham Community Health Services trust

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Newham Community Health Services trust planned to go to school this week to discuss health provision for young people. A trust board meeting was to be held at Brampton Manor School in Newham, east London, to hear students' views on services. Trust chair Peter Kenyon said the move was a ...

  • News

    GPs force HA and trust to drop cuts plan

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    London GPs have forced a health authority and trust to drop plans to restrict doctors' access to diagnostic services.

  • News

    Ministers need teeth to stop decay

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    In the fortnight between the Journal's publication of a draft version of the public health green paper (see News and News Focus, 22 January) and the official launch of Our Healthier Nation last week (see News, page 9), some of the language changed, but little of the substance.

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    The eligibility stakes

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Who can apply for a Lottery grant?

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    'Error' fear nurses win more staff

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    A trust is to improve night staffing levels after nurses warned that they were so overworked they feared making a 'fatal error'.

  • News

    Events

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    ACCIDENT AND FALLS

  • News

    Where initiative HAZ worked

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    'At the very least, ministers should examine whether those whose HAZ bids do not succeed could go ahead with some aspects of their proposals while decisions are made about a second wave'

  • News

    Potential life saver

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Potential life saver: Welsh health minister Win Griffiths meets staff at Tenby ambulance station during a tour of the integrated hospital and ambulance service run by Pembrokeshire and Derwen trust last week. A fierce campaign is being waged to stop the service being absorbed into an all-Wales ambulance trust, if ...

  • News

    London's turning

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Bart's may be 'saved', but the capital's health services are revealed to be still in a state of dangerous disarray.

  • News

    Past recovery

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Past recovery: staff clear out Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, which was founded in Knaresborough in 1720 and closed last week. 'We just have too many chemists in a small town,' said owner Stewart Newsome. Knaresborough's chamber of trade hopes a museum might be set up on the ground ...

  • News

    In person

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    Mark Britnell (above), previously an executive director at Central Middlesex Hospital trust, has been appointed executive director for operations at the University Hospital Birmingham trust. He takes up his appointment at the end of this month.

  • News

    The Turnberg recommendations

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    In south-east London...

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    On the record

    1998-02-12T00:00:00Z

    TESSA BROOKS became director of the NHS Executive's newly created chief executive development programme last year. She joined the NHS from university and went on to work for the King's Fund in the late 1980s, where she set up its organisational audit programme.