All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-01-14 – Page 2
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Enquiring mind
The late Brendan Devlin's contribution to evaluating surgical practice was ahead of its time and has had a lasting impact. Kaye McIntosh reports.
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Projects Editor
We are looking for a new member of the team to help develop a range of activities branded with the HSJ name. Part of this role will be to establish how wide-ranging these activities should be, but we expect they will cover conferences, debates, seminars, awards, online services, briefing papers, ...
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'Urgent' Scots intensive therapy unit report due
Scottish health boards ordered to review provision of intensive therapy and high dependency units must report to chief medical officer Sir David Carter next month.
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There is little evidence that psychiatrists can treat personality disorder
Michael Howlett (letters, 26 November) makes a strong case for psychiatrists to become more involved in managing psychopathic disorder. But he treats it as a single entity, which is understandable as many psychiatrists (including HW Griffiths, to whose letter he was responding) talk about it in this way. It is ...
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When stuck in a hole, the thing to do is stop digging
Labour's mental health policies may lead to inertia and short-termism
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Rushed deadline for three-way merger
Hospital managers in Kent have been ordered to merge three acute trusts in less than four months.
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Days like this
Anticipating Mrs Thatcher's NHS white paper... junior doctors' hours... nurses' grading appeals... suspended doctors...
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Culture shock
Paddy Cooney seems particularly well qualified for his job as chief executive of the Avalon Somerset trust, due to become the integrated mental health provider Somerset Partnership on 1 April.
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'There is a crisis. I'm not denying it'
Hospitals have buckled under the strain of this year’s winter pressures. Thelma Agnew and Laura Donnelly report HSJ’s findings, as health secretary Frank Dobson gives his verdict:
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Short cuts: New test for surgeons' hand-eye co-ordination
A computer test aimed at assessing whether a surgeon has sufficient hand- to-eye co-ordination to profit from training in keyhole techniques has been developed by the psychology department of Hull University, with funding from East Yorkshire Hospitals trust. The test measures the speed and accuracy with which a subject can ...
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The icepick man cometh
New health minister John Denham is happy to be called a moderniser after a Bennite past. But will his appointment mean a leadership vacuum at a crucial stage of policy development, asks Patrick Butler.
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Galbraith denies union claims of a recruitment crisis in Scotland
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has issued a letter to Labour MPs denying claims by health unions that there is a recruitment crisis in Scotland.
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Collecting charges: how the new unit will work
The task of collecting the charges will be given to the compensation recovery unit, which is part of the Benefits Agency. It will levy a flat- rate fee of £354 for patients treated in accident and emergency departments or outpatient clinics, and a daily rate of £435 for those admitted ...
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Long-stay care ruling puts duty on NHS
Health authorities suffered bruising defeats in the High Court just before Christmas in two challenges by patients to decisions on the use of healthcare resources.
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Psychiatrists reject 'failure' of care policy
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has challenged popular public assumptions that care in the community has failed.
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Short cuts: First Scots integrated health and social care facility
The Scottish Office has given the go-ahead for an £11m integrated health and social care facility - the first of its kind in Scotland.
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