All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-02-11 – Page 2

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Drug firms will have to reveal full cost of new treatments to NICE

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Drug companies will be expected to produce evidence of 'the total cost to the NHS' of adopting new treatments under a proposed appraisal process for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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The Dobbo Day of reckoning for consultants

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Informed sources - not including any current or unemployed government spin doctors - advise me that the medical profession is considering abolition of consultant merit awards. The move would end this gratuitous waste of NHS resources, and replace it with a revolutionary system which fits well with the education sector's ...
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Confederation's subs go up to prevent 'ruin'

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The NHS Confederation is planning a big hike in membership rates at the end of a year in which its chief executive admits it faced 'potential financial ruin'.
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Warning on 'hidden needs' of carers

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The government has been warned that its national strategy for carers could 'reveal hidden care needs' in community services.
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Bristol GMC notes stay secret

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dr John Roylance, the trust chief executive struck off for serious professional misconduct in the Bristol paediatric heart surgery case, has failed in an unprecedented attempt to obtain access to shorthand notes of confidential deliberations by the General Medical Council.
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in brief

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The government has announced that NHS Direct, the nurse-led telephone helpline, will be rolled out to cover 60 per cent of the country by the end of the year. Health secretary Frank Dobson said the scheme was being expanded faster than originally planned because it had
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in brief

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Employment lawyers are advising bosses they should consider sacking problem employees sooner rather than later in the light of the government's Fairness at Work Bill. The bill, which was presented to Parliament last month, will make radical reforms to employment law, including lifting the ceiling on compensation for unfair dismissal ...
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'Supra-PCG' structures must be planned to work from the bottom up

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

As an organisational concept, the 'supra-PCG' makes a lot of sense. But care must be taken to ensure that the development of such models is managed from the 'bottom-up' as well as the 'top-down' perspective.
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Patel chairs Scots standards board

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Obstetrician Sir Naren Patel has been appointed chair of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland, the Scottish equivalent of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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Board vacancies delay North West decisions

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Delays in appointing chairs and non-executive directors in North West region are delaying key decisions and putting a heavy burden on 'half- strength boards', according to senior managers.
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CJD doubles cost of blood

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The cost of blood will double as a result of the 'mad cow disease' crisis, the NHS Executive has confirmed.
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No individual to blame in poll shenanigans...

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The investigation into the Ladywood primary care group election (news, page 4, 21 January) was not about an individual but was concerned with the movements of a ballot box over a period of 72 hours, and as such 15 individuals were interviewed by Birmingham health authority secretary Richard Miles.
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HA's bid to force water fluoridation founders

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Newcastle and North Tyneside health authority has lost a High Court bid to force Northumbrian Water to fluoridate the water of millions of customers.
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Does the gentleman in Whitehall really know best?

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The NHS regional offices are increasingly arms of central government
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UKCC faces axe in nursing regulation shake-up

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The government is to shake up nurses' regulation after an independent review found existing regulatory bodies 'do not do enough to protect the safety of patients'.
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Astronomical problems as services face hordes

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Acute services in Devon and Cornwall are drawing up drastic contingency measures to cope with a mass influx of visitors for the solar eclipse in six months' time.
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Damning Unison analysis of PFI hospital is 'wrong', claims trust

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

A scathing analysis of the case for a leading private finance initiative project has concluded that it will deliver poorer service and cost more than a publicly funded scheme.
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Primary care groups The expertise that PCGs need is already there - in the community trusts

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Your detailed report on primary care group functions and the need for professional and management support ('Supra troupers', page 26, 14 January) was a timely contribution to the debate around the organisational development needs of primary care groups.
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After Henry

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

The NHS Bill is a skeletal piece of legislation which conjures up the ghost of Henry Vlll in the powers it gives ministers. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Managers beg Blair to act on intensive care

1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

Managers have appealed to prime minister Tony Blair for action to halt a 'crisis' in intensive care in London.