All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-11-12 – Page 2
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Short cuts Edinburgh Healthcare
Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust is investing £1 million in setting up a 16 bed nursing home, in the grounds of Corstorphine hospital and run and staffed by the NHS, to provide accommodation for people with learning disabilities who are moving out of Gogarurn hospital, which is due to close in ...
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Short cuts Improved surveillance
Improved surveillance and reporting of foodborne viral infection, along with good hygiene practice, are called for in a report from the Departments of Health and Agriculture. Report by the Advisory Committee on Microbiolical Safety of Food, £17.50, Stationery Office.
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The talking cure for poor performance
Counselling for managers By Nigel MacLennan Gower 296 pages £24.99
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The human cost of PFI
That unions have won rights to screen private finance initiative bidders' employment records is to be applauded, but what of patients?
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Short cuts Community nurses can reach socially excluded
Community nurses can reach socially excluded people who can't be reached by other health services, according to King's Fund chief executive Rabbi Julia Neuberger. 'They can provide quality healthcare to homeless people, travelling families and refugees - many of whom have little contact with mainstream health services until they become ...
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Short cuts Community nurses
Community nurses can reach socially excluded people which other health services can't, according to Rabbi Julia Neuberger. 'They can provide quality health care to homeless people, travelling families and refugees - many of whom have little contact with mainstream health services until they become dangerously unwell,' she told a joint ...
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heading to come
We've got the picture now, thanks to a flood of reports from or about the government: children need looking after better than we've managed lately. Yet we're still in a terrible muddle. Like those harrowing photos we always see in Armistice Week, the victims often end up in hospital, jail ...
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Reverse charges
No one knows what effect primary care groups will have on prescribing costs. But Frances Wilson explains how one health authority reversed a drugs overspend
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Short cuts Hutchinson takes chair of fatigue syndrome group
Professor Allen Hutchinson, director of public health at Sheffield University's school of health, is to chair the government's working group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which was announced in July. It will produce advice on clinical management of the illness. There will also be a sub-group on children.
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Mental health cash to target child services
Children's mental health services are to be earmarked for extra cash in the government's forthcoming mental health strategy, Department of Health officials confirmed last week.
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Ministers and civil servants are using 'pressure and dogma' to co-erce primary care groups towards independent trust status, GPs have warned.
Ministers and civil servants are using 'pressure and dogma' to co-erce primary care groups towards independent trust status, GPs have warned.
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Community trusts are part of the solution for primary care in London
I congratulate Richard Lewis and the London Initiative Zone review steering group on compiling a clear and informative report on the complex LIZ programme ('LIZ: a legacy for London', pages 24-27, 1 October). The review helps redress an apparent cooling of commitment and interest by the centre towards the end ...
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Short cuts Travel bursary launched for trainee respiratory staff
Trainee respiratory staff are being offered bursaries of £750 towards the cost of attending next year's European Respiratory Society conference in Madrid, or the American Thoracic Society conference in California. Details from Sheila Edwards, chief executive, British Thoracic Society, 6th floor, North Wing, New Garden House, 78 Hatton Garden, London ...
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in brief
The Legal Aid Board has agreed, with immediate effect, that it can and will pay for mediation if a case backed by legal aid can be resolved that way. It had initially argued that, by law, its funding covered only traditional dispute resolution - by negotiation or litigation. Mediation could ...
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Knowing who's boss
Is hierarchy the natural order for organisations or can a looser structure be just as effective? Andrew Wall examines the options
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Short cuts Coventry HA boosts health promotion pharmacists
Coventry health authority has launched a public awareness campaign on the health promotion role of community pharmacists. It will encourage the public to seek advice from pharmacists on a wide range of issues, including medicines, minor ailments, healthy eating, sexual health, physical activity and giving up smoking. The HA points ...
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Short cuts Food safety report recommends better surveillance
Improved surveillance and reporting of food-borne viral infection, and good hygiene practice, are recommended in a report from the Department of Health and Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food.
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Crackdown on NHS sickness bill begins
NHS human resources managers are to have new guidance on tackling absenteeism in line with chancellor Gordon Brown's bid to cut £6bn from the public sector staff sickness bill.
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Short cuts Patients bring in duvets as hospital bedding runs out
Stand clear: heart surgeon Francis Wells at work, pictured in one of a series of photographs taken during a single week. The pictures form one of three exhibitions linking art and medicine on show at Buckingham- shire Art Gallery until 6 December. Paintings depicting stages of breast cancer and work ...
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