All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-10-22 – Page 2
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Tale of two views: were we at the same event?
Reading your report on the second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives, I wonder: was I a guest at the same event?
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Happy couples
The government's Partnership in Action green paper spells out closer joint working arrangements between health and social services, including joint budgets. Lynn Eaton finds out how the prospective partners are shaping up
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New voice promises constructive criticism
After years as a backroom fixer, one could forgive Tim Clement- Jones, the Liberal Democrat's new health spokesman in the Lords, if he was eager to make his mark with a thrusting, attention-grabbing attack on government health policy.
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Select committee to probe NHS staffing
With increasing clamour for the government to improve pay for nurses and tackle chronic recruitment problems, the Common' s health committee' s decision to investigate NHS staff requirements is timely.
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Laugh? I nearly cried: conference comedians
Some thought Ann Widdecombe's line, 'The Conservatives are, and always have been, 100 per cent committed to the values of our health services', was a joke. It wasn't.
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It's safe to come out now
In a break with tradition, there was not a single pot shot at health service managers during the political conference season. Patrick Butler wonders if 'mature' debate is, indeed, the order of the day
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It's safe to come out now
In a break with tradition, there was not a single pot shot at health service managers during the political conference season. Patrick Butler wonders if 'mature' debate is, indeed, the order of the day
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Colorectal surgery
Prophylactic antibiotics are increasingly being used to counteract the high risk of hospital-acquired infection in colorectal surgery patients, but there is doubt about the most effective timing, duration and route for their administration. Anne-Marie Gle
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In from the cold
Health workers are involved in a joint team with other agencies to help rough sleepers off the streets. Family doctor Nigel Hewett describes its impact on 72 clients over six months
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Managers come in from the cold Managers' social exclusion is the fault of the system that undervalues us
You report that chief executives feel they have become a 'socially excluded minority frozen out of policy-making and subject to rigid control from the centre' (News Focus, page 14, 1 October). You have also reported in recent weeks that a teaching hospital has found itself 6m in the red without ...
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Widdecombe considers widening PFI to NHS clinical services
The private sector would manage NHS hospitals and clinical services through an expanded private finance initiative under policy proposals being considered by shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe as part of her review of Tory health policy.
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Clinical psychology offers waiting list insights
I was interested to read John Henderson's letter (13 August) on a means of waiting list management in child and adolescent mental health services.
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Don't ignore the constructive message of the chief executives' forum
Your Comment (1 October) accurately reflected the feeling of chief executives at their recent forum that they wished to be more involved in NHS policy and wished to work on increasing their powers of influence.
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Duel carriageway
How could the new statutory duty of partnership placed on health and local authorities change existing relationships and working partnerships? David Owens thinks the road leads to conflict
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London Initiative Zone: a capital idea whose legacy should be preserved
Six years as a GP principal in Greenwich leave me in no doubt that the pressures on primary healthcare services are rising. The London Initiative Zone was welcome, and many - patients and staff - have benefited from premises improvements ('LIZ: a legacy for London', pages 24-27, 1 October).
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CMO launches flu jab campaign
Professor Liam Donaldson, England's new chief medical officer, this week launched a national campaign to make clinicians and the public aware of the importance of flu vaccinations.
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Quebec on call
Quebec's pioneering network of community health and social care centres provide easily accessible integrated services on a neighbourhood basis. Helen Busby and colleagues explain how they work
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Managers call for power
Government drives to improve quality in the NHS could give managers responsibility for clinical performance without giving them power to change clinical practice, says the Institute of Health Services Management.
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