All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-04-02 – Page 3

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    Plea to health secretary in Lighthouse row

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson is likely to be asked to intervene over the proposed sale of London Lighthouse's purpose-built centre for people with HIV/AIDS after the local health authority rejected calls for public consultation over the issue.

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    High road

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Consultants Roger Rand (left) and David Dawson hike across moors near Bradford to prepare for a nine-day, 100km trek across Iceland. The doctors, who work for Bradford Hospitals trust, are taking part in an Icelandic Challenge organised by charity Whizz Kidz to raise money for wheelchairs, trikes and walking aids ...

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    Key role for NHS in welfare reform

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Managers' leaders reacted cautiously last week to the government's plans for welfare reform.

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    Log on and like it

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    NHS head of IT Frank Burns previewed his IM&T strategy at the Healthcare Computing '98 conference. Peter Mitchell was there

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    Power of London

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    If Londoners vote 'yes' to a mayor, the capital's NHS may be finally united. Mark Crail reports

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    WE MEANT TO BE OPEN

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    monitor

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Is the gloss starting to rub off New Labour's shiny health team? Or is the manager who penned Monitor a clever parody of one of Alan Milburn's encouraging little speeches alone in feeling a tad disillusioned? In the week Al had chief execs in for a chat about getting waiting ...

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    Sick and tired of the NHS

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Stress and rising workloads are blamed for above-average sickness absence in the NHS's own workforce. Mark Crail looks at who needs time off and why

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    Pay slip?

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Are senior managers in health authorities right to have misgivings about their new pay scheme? Dolly Chadda reports

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    in person

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Veronica Cotterill (above) has been appointed chief executive of Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton Healthcare trust.

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    On the rocks

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    The proposed closure of London Lighthouse has sent alarm bells ringing throughout the hospice and palliative care movement. Neil Small explains

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    Serving time

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    Is the NHS ready to take on prison healthcare? Patrick Butler reports on the current debate

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    The wrong target

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    The government's pledge to cut numbers on the waiting list by 100,000 is almost certain to fail. And it's the time they have to wait, not the numbers on the list, that patients care about. Richard Hamblin and colleagues explain

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-04-02T00:00:00Z

    What is the world coming to? That bastion of impenetrable bureaucracy, the World Health Organisation, has redesigned its web site, and, for the first time since the Pentagon got the idea of linking up its computers to help it win the third world war, it has become an accessible and ...