All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-04-02 – Page 2
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In Brief: Western General Hospitals trust
Western General Hospitals trust, Edinburgh, has announced that contracts have been signed with Miller Construction for a £40m building programme at Western General Hospital. The scheme, which includes new wards and theatres, is the largest exchequer-funded NHS building project in Scotland at the moment, and forms part of a wider ...
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Centre to track GP commissioning
The 40 national GP commissioning pilots, which go live this week, will come under close scrutiny to assess their impact.
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Focus pocus or change?
Trends in New Labour's health record are emerging now it has been in office for 11 months.
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Ex-manager faces charges of corruption
A former estates manager is to appear in court on corruption charges in connection with an alleged £1m contracts scandal.
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Cottage hospital closes despite Labour pledge
The first closure of a cottage hospital under the present government went ahead this week, just months after ministers said community hospitals would no longer be sidelined.
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Local colour
Tessa Jowell's white paper will be different from her green paper, she promised the Association for Public Health. Barbara Millar reports
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Record queues in Dobson's patch
Hospital waiting lists have reached a record high in health secretary Frank Dobson's own constituency.
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Future doctors
Future doctors could qualify with BA degrees as part of a drive to promote the role of the arts in medicine. Health minister Baroness Jay is to meet the Nuffield Trust to discuss the introduction of the arts into medical education after Nuffield research showed that studying the arts helped ...
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An elusive equality
THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE: A POLITICAL HISTORY By Charles Webster Oxford University Press 254 pages £9.99
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New surgeons' training hit by emergencies
The scale of emergency medical work faced by hospitals is having a 'serious impact' on the training of young surgeons, a royal college has warned.
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International exchange
Paramedic training officers Brian Glass (far left) and Jim Dickie (right) demonstrate their skills to a group of doctors from Egypt at the Scottish Ambulance College in Eddleston, near Peebles. The college recently secured a contract to train 72 postgraduate doctors from Egypt through Scottish export agency Scottish Trade International. ...
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Green light for first wave of HAZs and merged trusts
The government's health service reforms took shape this week with formal approval for the first wave of health action zones and a new raft of hospital mergers.
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Top-shelf Tess in a fruitless search for a good read
The other night I caught Tessa Jowell on Channel 4 News battling against undue sexual candour in teenage girls' magazines that are actually read by pre-teens.
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Going to town on health policy
And so it came to pass that in the early years of the 21st century, dealing with the aftermath of London's numerous health service reviews became the responsibility of. . . millionaire novelist, bon viveur and onetime Tory grandee Jeffrey Archer.
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Plans to halve number of Welsh trusts
Controversial plans to halve the number of trusts in Wales were announced this week by Welsh health minister Win Griffiths.
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