All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-01-21 – Page 2

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    Tribunal ruling significance played down

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Managers have played down the significance of an employment appeal tribunal ruling hailed as a major boost for family-friendly policies by union leaders.

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    Demolished trust store in radioactive 'near miss'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A trust has fallen foul of the Environment Agency after a store containing radioactive waste was partly demolished.

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    Days like this

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Importing radical health reforms... Broadmoor managers... local health councils... nurses' pay... banning eggs from hospitals...

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    SHORT CUTS

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Drugs firm and NHS to fund diabetes research centre

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    Complaints convenors can be impartial...

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Hilda Harvey's letter (3 December) shows a level of prejudice and bias that does little to instil confidence in her independence as a complaints convenor.

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    Wiping the floor with comments on pay

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    I appreciate that doctors' pay is a significant issue, but it is grossly overstated by Nizam Mamode, deputy chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee ('Quick march', 3 December).

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    A come-back for public service

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    'The desire to preserve and improve 'our' NHS is still strong enough to bind individuals through enormous changes'

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    Getting the cold shoulder

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Has Sam Galbraith's personal winter crisis damaged his chances of becoming Scotland's first health minister? Colin Wright reports; 'For a man who was presented as a 'safe pair of hands', he has begun to look a little clumsy'

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    When the chips are down

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Some hospitals now seem confident of thwarting the millennium computer bug. Other are worried about basic utilities and concern over IT staffing levels is widespread. Peter Mitchell reports; 'Staffing over the meltdown period is the real problem'

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    St Tony of Lost Causes tends the sick at heart

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Now that Charlie Whelan has hung up his boots as spin doctor to Chancellor Brown it is safe to say without fear of reprisal that there are distinct dangers attached to over-cleverness in his trade.

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    Executive steps in to prevent GP 'carve-up'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A regional office has stepped in to prevent a health authority paying GPs to manage a primary care group instead of appointing a chief executive.

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    Cancer trials: money is not only currency of success

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Alan Maynard's article ('Looking Askance', 19 November), on the cost-effectiveness of cancer services, was disappointing in its narrowness of approach.

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    Fancy brick work

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    How much support exists for the health select committee's proposal to integrate fully health and social services, wonders Pat Healy; 'Bringing them together would be a disaster. You can't force people to work together'

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    One for the boys

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    'The clinic is staffed by specially trained GPs'

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    Commissioners call for spending boost to finance free elderly care

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    What the commission recommends

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    Ministers want single pay review body structure as part of modernisation drive

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Ministers floated their first thoughts on how the proposed new pay system for the NHS might work this week - just as they are gearing up to announce this year's pay awards, which sources say will be on 4 February.

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    Nurses on PCG boards

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    5 February, London; 12 February, York; 19 February, Liverpool; 26 February, Cambridge; 5 March, Derby

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    Medicine: not the best laughter

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Seven ages of nursing By Mark Radcliffe NT Books 122 pages £6.50

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    Managers 'will bear the brunt of GP overspend'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Managers could bear the brunt of unpopular measures to deal with GP overspends in the reformed NHS, the Office of Health Economics has predicted.

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    Fixer's trust has bad debts

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A top NHS manager drafted in to troubleshoot at a London trust facing a £6m deficit has admitted his own trust has run up a £3m bad debts loss.