All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-06-11 – Page 2
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Ministers fall back on old pledges in wake of heart babies scandal
Ministers moved this week to beef up the NHS quality agenda in response to the outcry over the Bristol heart surgery baby deaths.
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No going back
health secretary Frank Dobson opened a new primary care and community health centre in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency last week. Camden and Islington Community Health Services trust has now been able to move existing services out of hospital. Mr Dobson is pictured with GP Iona Heath.
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Judge overturns 'irrational' barring order
Mental heath law is a minefield. Last month a patient detained under the Mental Health Act for four months in 1996 won a High Court order quashing a decision by Riverside Mental Health trust to continue detaining him after his mother applied for his discharge.
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It's a now or never chance for Bart's Hospital
At risk of outstaying my welcome on the letters page, Angela Sinclair (Letters, 28 May) is right about the future of Bart's.
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Campaigners win battle over mixed-sex unit
A trust ordered to abandon plans to build a new mixed-sex unit for mentally ill patients has set up a working party to hammer out a design with single-sex facilities.
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New body finds a way through the bottleneck
In 'Slow-acting remedy' (pages 24-25, 21 May) Eldridge and South are right to point out the shortage of skills, either to undertake research studies, to lead research teams, to apply research to developing practice or to provide training and supervision for research.
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Christine Hancock: 'The first time I played in a boy's world'
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock became district general manager of Waltham Forest HA in 1985. She was the first woman nurse to secure the post and one of the first women to reach that level. But getting there was not plain sailing.
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Writs fly as bucks are passed in Guy's project funding debacle
Auditors have been unable to allocate blame for a hospital building project which ran pounds68.7m over budget and three years behind schedule because the trust, its project manager and its service engineers are suing each other.
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Operations cancelled as workers strike over 'multiskilling' job losses
Hundreds of non-urgent operations were cancelled this week as staff at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff went on indefinite strike in protest at jobs cuts caused by a contracting-out deal.
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Managers fear year of policy confusion as primary care groups are established
Senior finance managers fear the cost and workload involved in setting up primary care groups will lead to problems elsewhere in the NHS, an exclusive survey for HSJ has discovered.
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How to make an Impact on the lengthy waiting lists for sight-restoring cataract operations
Your report that Scottish MPs were shocked to find that large numbers of people are waiting for sight-restoring cataract operations (News, page 8, 14 May) again highlights the issues surrounding the management of this common condition.
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A gender for change
Back in 1991, the Department of Health, acting on behalf of the NHS, became the first government department to sign up to Opportunity 2000.
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A new look for the millennium The times are changing - and so is HSJ
Renewal is a recurring theme of the late 1990s, spurred by the approach of the millennium. Today, this magazine renews itself in a format we are confident will continue to serve our readers' needs into the 21st century. In its 106-year history HSJ has undergone many metamorphoses. One of the ...
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Rosalynde Lowe: 'It would be very difficult with young children'
Rosalynde Lowe, chief executive of Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust, recommends that women aiming for the top have children early, so they are grown up by the time they reach senior leve.
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A 'portfolio' CV with a wide mix of experience
Andy Leary set himself a target: to become a finance director by the age of 40. On 1 June he achieved his ambition, taking up the post at Lincolnshire health authority. But his route to the job has taken him through a variety of posts at HAs and the NHS ...
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