All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-02-19 – Page 3

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    WEB OF GOODWILL

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    I was pleased to see your comments about our Internet site (Web Watch, 18 December). We produced the current site without the pounds100,000 award from BT; that is a grant to develop it as an interactive site. The site was developed from funding obtained through overseas contacts, who would not ...

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    HAs to set their own green paper targets

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Health authorities will be encouraged to set their own targets to tackle local health problems, public health minister Tessa Jowell told the Journal this week.

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    IMPLEMENTING THE WHITE PAPER

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    11-12 March, Birmingham

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    Key Points

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Medical workforce planning is a difficult and neglected area, but ignoring it will cost the NHS dear.

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    Key Points

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    The government's proposal to survey 100,000 patients a year in order to improve services faces

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    Key Points

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    The poor image of NHS management is largely undeserved.

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    Key Points

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    The proposed size of primary care groups may prove problematic.

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    Welsh waiting lists rise by a third

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    The number of patients waiting for treatment at Welsh hospitals has risen by more than a third in a year.

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    Spreading the load

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    One health authority assembled information for a medical staffing profile to help achieve a balance of supply and demand.

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    Long and winding road - to where?

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    'The NHS is about to embark on a journey to who knows where, armed only with the sketchiest of blueprints riddled with contradiction and ambiguity'

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    The shock of the new

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Health service managers have been given a stern warning not to try to seize control of healthcare reform in the wake of The New NHS as they did with Working for Patients during the early 1990s.

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    Where are they now?

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    UK Academy of Medicine

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    From paper to practice

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    White paper proposals for primary care groups are evidence of the government coming up with something 'new'. But, asks Andrew Wall, are they really anything more than an uneasy mix of naivety

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    In person

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Roy Male (above), deputy chief executive of Addenbrooke's trust, has been appointed trust chief executive. He is expected to take up his new post in the summer when current chief executive John Ashbourne retires.

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    REFERENCES

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    1 Feil E, Welch H, Fisher E. Why estimates of physician supply and requirements disagree. JAMA 1993; 269(20):2659-63.

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    REFERENCES

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    1 National Audit Office. National Health Service Day Hospitals for Elderly People in England. London: HMSO, 1994.

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    Time to see some results

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson’s stock has risen since his uneasy debut last summer (see Politics, page 21). But that won’t last long if he has to preside over many more announcements of large increases in waiting lists. Figures for England showing just that were expected as the Journal went to ...

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    TENDER IS THE SLIGHT

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    In Pat Healy's article regarding the invitation to tender for legal services for the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales (News, page 9, 22 January), it is suggested that public law is a specialist legal area not usually practised by commercial solicitors. While I do not comment ...

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    Who wants to do what

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    Croydon

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-02-19T00:00:00Z

    When the millennium parties are just a memory, the celebratory fizz has gone flat and we're all sick to death of That Dome, what do we have to look forward to? Well, there's always the April 2001 census. And, for the first time since the series began in 1841, people ...