All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-06-18
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How to tell if the NHS is serious about improving the nation's health
I read with interest 'All quiet on the front line' (pages 24-26, 14 May), as performance indicators are, on the face of it, a very useful tool and appear to provide a sensible transition from management theory to management practice. Defining a standard, measuring performance, comparing performance to the standard, ...
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Let me know if you care about sharing
Roy Sharma (Letters, 4 June) asked: 'Why are we so close to the primary care group deadline without vision, partnership and plans?'
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The public health specialist who fled 'marriage' to half- a-dozen GP partners
A growing interest in public health and a dissatisfaction with general practice led Steve Hajioff to make a major career change in his 30s.
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Sir Alan Langlands
The NHS chief executive gains a knighthood in the NHS's 50th anniversary year. Sir Alan has been chief executive since 1994, when he succeeded Sir Duncan Nichol, having served as his deputy. Sir Alan is a former general manager of North West Thames regional health authority.
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PCG commissioning plan threatens emergency ambulance services
Allowing primary care groups to commission emergency ambulance services would drive up costs, increase bureaucracy, hamper performance and fragment the service, ambulance managers have warned.
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Analyst warns that hospital merger savings are an illusion
Government hopes of saving pounds50,000 with every hospital merger are largely illusory, a leading health policy analyst warned last week.
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Panel beaters please apply
For an organisation which restructures itself more frequently than the Italian government, the NHS doesn't seem to do it very efficiently. In its pursuit of political correctness and 'visible equity' the NHS treats its staff unfairly, prolongs disruption and damages clinical services.
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CHCs join revolt over director appointment
Community health councils are in rebellion over the appointment of a new director for their national association in moves that could disrupt the patient watchdog movement's conference.
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Widdecombe attacks 'bungled PR'
Shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe launched her first assault on the government's NHS record this week as health secretary Frank Dobson claimed 3,100 beds would open or stay open thanks to the government's waiting list initiative.
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Attracting more young GPs: successful schemes in County Durham and south London
County Durham has one of the oldest established schemes to attract young GPs. Now entering its third year, 'Career Start' has already offered 15 vocationally trained GPs the opportunity to sample work in general practice without making a life-long commitment to one surgery. Two have now taken up partnerships within ...
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Bad consultants face loss of merit awards
Hospital consultants who fail to meet new quality measures could have their merit awards withdrawn by the Commission for Health Improvement.
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Sterile services strikers go back to work as trust drops sacking threat
The first major NHS strike since Labour came to power has been suspended amid allegations of 'bully-boy tactics' by University of Wales Hospital trust.
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Dobson's making beds - but should he 'lie' on them?
It is rare - perhaps unprecedented in recent years - to witness a government announcement about opening NHS beds, certainly in such numbers as health secretary Frank Dobson boasted last week. The government's pounds500m fund to tackle waiting lists would pay for an extra 2,000 beds in England, he claimed, ...
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Laying to rest the question of funding - in beds for those in and outside Herefordshire
Your news story (page 7, 4 June) on Herefordshire Community Health trust's funding problems was largely accurate, but the health authority never expected the trust to run a new 32-bed hospital for the same money as an old 18-bed hospital.
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Inquiry begins as hopes for peace marred by suicide fear
A Belfast community trust has launched an inquiry into an increase in suicides among young people in the city, which some fear may have been prompted by moves towards ending the troubles in Northern Ireland.
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The change of career that's not as bizarre as it's made out to be
I have spent the past week pondering the bizarre career change I made 15 years ago.
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'Reforms to blame' for upheaval in Scotland
Conflicting reforms are set to cause a major IT upheaval in Scotland's NHS, according to Unison.
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The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service proposals
The SNBTS proposals, which are out for consultation until 26 August, involve a two-phase restructuring of services.
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IT bug claims its first victim as booking system crashes
The first trust has already fallen victim to the millennium computer bug, the Audit Commission revealed this week.