All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-08-20 – Page 3

  • News

    Initial problems

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Will the NHS profit at all from the turf wars between accountancy's professional bodies, asks Mark Crail

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    'Iron law' of wealth

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    A better state of health A prescription for the NHS By John Willman Profile Books 297 pages 8.99

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    Three of a kind: who's who

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    ACCA, founded in 1904, is an international body. It has 60,000 qualified members and 125,000 students in over 130 countries. About 24,000 ACCA-qualified accountants are outside the UK. Over half its students come from outside the UK and Ireland. Around 1,200 ACCA-qualified accountants work in the NHS and it has ...

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    No pay rise for many private sector staff

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of private sector healthcare staff will get no pay rise this year, even though employers are finding it increasingly difficult to fill vacancies, according to a survey of more than 300 care and nursing homes.

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    Message in a throttle

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has not escaped New Labour's passion for news management. Patrick Butler reports on the department's high-profile spin doctor

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    Monitor

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Summer brings so many health risks that Monitor hardly dares get out of bed these days. What with public health and photo-opportunities minister Tessa Jowell's brave crusade against deadly cheeses, and chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman's wholly unexpected warning that 'consumers cooking burgers and similar minced meat products should ...

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    news

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    A report funded by the American tobacco industry argues that anti- tobacco legislation in the UK would threaten nearly 12,000 jobs. But Association for Public Health chief executive Donald Reid said the only job losses would be among undertakers and mortuary attendants.

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    where are they now?

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    No 84

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    In person

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Boyle, director of facilities and procurement management with Haringey Healthcare trust in north London, has been appointed general manager of Westcare Business Services, a common services agency that provides corporate support to Western health and social services board in Londonderry.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    If your access to the wonderful world of communications technology comes from within the NHS, then you are most likely already aware of NHSweb. If not, http://nww.inform.nhsweb. nhs.uk will produce only an annoying insistence on the part of your web browser that the site has no DNS entry.