All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-01-21 – Page 3

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    SEMA Group

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    SEMA Group is to get the contract to build the National Strategic Tracing Service for the NHS Executive. The NSTS will enable administrators across the health service to trace the NHS numbers of all patients in England and Wales from their names and birth dates. SEMA was one of only ...

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    PCG polls 'should not be run by HA'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    An investigation into a botched primary care group election in Birmingham has recommended that future polls should not be handled by health authority officers.

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    Patrick Herbert

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Herbert is the new chair of Sussex Ambulance Service trust. Mr Herbert, a Labour Party member, pursued a career in international and merchant banking. He succeeds Martyn Long, who is retiring.

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    Keep us posted

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Please send details of senior appointments, indicating whether a photograph is available, to Lyn Whitfield at HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, or fax 0171-874 0254, or e-mail: lynw@healthcare.emap.co.uk.

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    Key points

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    An increase in the number of complications following male circumcisions performed by non-professionals led to the establishment of a special clinic for religious circumcisions.

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    Key points

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The performance indicators currently in use are not reliable for assessing individual GPs or identifying poor performers.

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    Making a point:

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Making a point: a midwife signs a postcard backing a Royal College of Midwives campaign for a 'fair deal' on pay and action to tackle staff shortages. The RCM hopes to deliver 30,000 postcards to Parliament to 'maintain pressure' on ministers in the run-up to an announcement by the nursing, ...

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    Making their marker

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Paul Myers is a GP and senior lecturer at the department of general practice and primary care, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine.

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    monitor

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Monitor wouldn't wish to suggest anyone was panicking about the millennium bug, but when hospitals start sinking their own wells to ensure continued water supplies 'just in case', there must be something going on. Northwick Park Hospital communications manager Brian Goodinson says the idea does hold other attractions, even if ...

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    Such an old story

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    From poor law to community care The development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971 (2nd edition 1998) By Robin Means and Randall Smith The Policy Press 332 pages £45

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Do you ever feel you were robbed of the opportunity to develop UK foreign policy towards Tashkent or to draft white papers on white fish quotas - and all because you got such bad careers advice at school?