All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-03-19 – Page 3

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    Memories of a rock musician

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Rock musician Ian Dury is someone who knows all about the inside of hospitals. He contracted polio in 1949, aged seven, probably in the public swimming pool at Southend.

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    Memories of a nurse

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The scars of the second world war were still in evidence when Diana Vass, now principal nurse adviser at NHS Estates, joined London's St Thomas' Hospital in 1956 as a trainee nurse.

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    Money on the move

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Has Gordon Brown already been more generous towards the NHS than a Tory chancellor would have been? John Appleby assesses the background to this week's Budget

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    Monitor

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Despite fevered speculation that there would be a trawl of local candidates in the hunt for a chief executive for the new Leeds 'supertrust', the post has now been advertised externally. Which could be a blessing for NHS boss Alan Langlands, who has been heard to joke in the past ...

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    Where are they now?

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Pocket profile:

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    Open to question

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson last year asked trust chairs to ensure their meetings were open to the public. He believed that the public would 'gain a wider understanding of the constraints and opportunities we face' and 'become more involved in their local health service and have a greater voice in ...

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    In pursuit of 'therapeutic optimism'

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The New Deal could provide a shot in the arm for mental health policy, some experts believe.

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    In pursuit of 'therapeutic optimism'

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The New Deal could provide a shot in the arm for mental health policy, some experts believe.

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    Putting paid to the past

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    MSF's equal-pay claim, based on a landmark ruling from the European Court, could make the NHS overhaul its pay structure, says Lyn Whitfield

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    In person

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Marsden trust has appointed Cally Palmer as chief executive. She joins from the Royal Free Hampstead trust, where she is currently deputy chief executive and director of services. Ms Palmer succeeds Phyllis Cunningham CBE, who is leaving at the end of May after 24 years at the hospital.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    It is 3.30pm on Tuesday. Madam Speaker calls the House of Commons to order, and a rare silence falls over the chamber. You rise to your feet, sip delicately from the crystal tumbler of 20-year-old malt whisky poised on the despatch box in front of you, and begin to deliver ...