All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-05-21 – Page 2
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Single inspection body for homes
Plans to create a new separate inspection body for nursing and residential homes have been welcomed throughout the NHS.
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Bradford Royal Infirmary's new clinical skills teaching laboratory
Medical student David Swann gets intimate with a retinopathy head at Bradford Royal Infirmary's new clinical skills teaching laboratory.
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In Brief: Government's new information technology strategy
The launch of the government's new information technology strategy for the NHS has been delayed again while health ministers examine its financial implications. Publication is now tentatively scheduled for July, an NHS Executive spokesperson said this week.
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In Brief: Health expert Chris Ham
Health authorities should be obliged to explain clinical decisions, and the NHS should have a system of appeal tribunals for patients refused treatment, health expert Chris Ham argues in a book, published by the King's Fund, looking at the lessons of the Jaymee Bowen case.
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In Brief: Research by Pay & Workforce Research
Time lost in sickness absence cost the NHS more than £500m in 199798, research by Pay & Workforce Research shows. Revealing the data last week, PWR consultant Gillian Whitaker urged managers to use return-to-work interviews to identify the causes of absence.
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In Brief: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The government should set a national target to reduce work-related illness and injury, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy says in its response to the public health green paper, Our Healthier Nation . The CSP recommends reducing the number of days' work lost due to sickness absence by one tenth by ...
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Check-up time
Despite renewed government emphasis on effectiveness, trusts vary enormously in their commitment to clinical audit. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain
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Senior medics vote 'no confidence' in trust chief
Senior medical staff have passed a vote of no confidence in a trust chief executive.
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Trust in the community
Management support is crucial to the success of primary care groups. Heather Sim suggests how to bring everyone on board
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Primary concerns
Academics are warning that the shift to primary care groups is fraught with dangers. Mark Crail reports
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'Confusion' follows Dobson directive to redesign planned psychiatric unit
Mental health campaigners accused the government last week of creating policy confusion in a row over mixed-sex wards.
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It's not a letter of credit
At a stroke, health secretary Frank Dobson has removed the right of trusts to determine the pay and rations of their top teams.
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Dobson spends on 'rebuttal officer' as waiting lists soar
Health ministers have come under attack for spending thousands of pounds on a unit to defend government policy as waiting lists head for another record high.
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Dobson gives go-ahead to regional shake-up
Health secretary Frank Dobson gave the go-ahead this week for a shake-up of NHS regions in London and the south of England.
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Don't stop praying
Rarely has mental health been more in the political eye; rarely has there been greater potential to improve mental health services.
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