All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-06-25
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Health service must offer 1,000 jobs in first stage of New Deal scheme
The NHS will be expected to provide at least 1,000 jobs and training places for unemployed people as its initial contribution to the government's New Deal scheme, and will be expected to deliver more in future, managers have been told.
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where are they now? No 80 Iris Isbister
Pocket Profile: Personal friend of deposed Tory Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth and former chair of Forth Valley health board, who resigned amid a bitter row over an acute services review.
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Controversial ACHCEW chief takes Labour whip in Lords
Community health councils chief Toby Harris has been made a working peer, taking the Labour whip in the Lords.
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In Brief: Ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship
A Europe-wide ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship has been approved. The EU council of ministers formally adopted a directive on Monday banning 'all forms of commercial communication or sponsorship with the aim or effect of promoting a tobacco product' by 2006.
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Family affair
Aneurin and Billy Bevan, nephews of post-war Labour health minister Nye Bevan, who founded the NHS, at the commemorative stones in the hills above Tredegar marking their uncle's achievements.
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Human resources strategy sets targets to cut attacks against staff
Health service managers are to be set targets for cutting levels of staff sickness and violence against staff. And they will be expected to deliver 'measurable improvements' in occupational health.
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New powers for commissioner 'can cut lawsuits against NHS'
New powers for the health service commissioner to investigate clinical complaints could mean fewer legal actions against the NHS, his annual report suggests today.
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Scotland ahead in fight to beat IT bug
More than 80 per cent of NHS computer systems in Scotland will be free of the millennium bug by the end of March 1999, with work to 'firm up' compliance among stragglers being carried out during the rest of the year, MPs have been told.
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Bill aims to halt community hospital closures
A cheeky private bill introduced recently aims to make it all but impossible to close community hospitals, reflecting the continuing domination of this topic in parliamentary health debates.
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'Free NHS is an anachronism'
The first moves to map out a radical right-wing agenda for healthcare beyond the Conservative election defeat emerged this week as the Social Market Foundation condemned the principle of a free NHS as an 'anachronism'.
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Short Cuts: Irvine urges tough line over assaults on staff
The Lord Chancellor has urged magistrates to get tough on offenders who attack health workers. Sentences should 'act as a deterrent', he told a magistrates' conference last week.
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Short Cuts: Hunt fails in bid for Welsh Assembly health body
Former NHS Confederation chief executive Lord Hunt called unsuccessfully last week for a statutory body to speak on behalf of the health service to the Welsh Assembly. Speaking during the House of Lords committee stage of the Government of Wales Bill, he said a health advisory council consisting of NHS ...
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Short Cuts: HSJ journalist scoops writer of the year award
The Medical Journalists' Association has named HSJ special correspondent Barbara Millar as its specialist feature writer of the year. She won the award for an investigation of freemasonry in the NHS ('Hear, see, be silent', 8 February 1996). HSJ deputy editor Mark Crail took second place in the specialist news ...