All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-02-18
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Dr Peter Kennedy: 'It used to take seven years to do something about colleagues with nicknames like 'Terminator' and '007'''
Concept: 'The term is new, but the concept is not - it is about the collective responsibility of chief executives and clinicians. The new emphasis is on increasing the development of information on clinical outcomes and performance and handling that information in an open manner with the public.'
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OFT probes 'abuses' by private health firms
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating a series of allegations about uncompetitive behaviour in private medicine.
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BMA accuses police on surgeon contract
West Midlands Police has come under fire for privatising its police surgeon service.
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'Largest' network links acute sites
North Essex health authority has ordered the largest 'community of interest network' yet to be built in England.
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GP deputising 'failures' added to holiday crisis
Two studies have been launched into claims that failures in GP deputising services added to pressure on accident and emergency services at Christmas.
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Misconduct allegation against trust chief executive
The chief executive of a Scottish trust has been reported to the General Medical Council.
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A fatal outbreak of ambition
'Nurses or wardmaids are much the same as housemaids, and require little teaching other than making poultices,' wrote a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, John Fleet South, soon after a particularly unpleasant encounter with the indomitable Florence Nightingale. While his views may not necessarily match those of ...
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Ambulance trusts behind in IT bug fight
Five of England's 36 ambulance trusts are making 'unsatisfactory' progress in mopping up year 2000 computer problems, according to reports from regional directors.
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Pay proposals spark 'disgust and dismay' among unions
Battle lines were drawn over the long-awaited proposals for a new pay system for the NHS as soon as health secretary Frank Dobson announced them in the Commons this week.
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Roylance appeal focuses on 'bias'
Former Bristol Royal Infirmary chief executive John Roylance has claimed that the General Medical Council's decision to strike him off for failing to stop a series of fatal heart operations on children was 'profoundly unsatisfactory'.
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Territorial Army manoeuvres cause 'conflict' between MoD and NHS
The Ministry of Defence is risking 'conflict' with the NHS over plans to recruit 2,000 extra doctors and nurses to the Territorial Army, MPs have warned.
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Stop me if you've heard these before
Fifty years of the National Health Service Continuities and discontinuities in health policy Edited by Robert Skelton and Valerie Williamson University of Brighton 136 pages £12
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Bells ring as NHS Direct contracts go to HBOC
Four more NHS Direct contracts, worth a total of £2.9m, have gone to market leader HBOC.
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Final bids invited for NHS Direct
The NHS Executive has invited bids for the third and final waves of NHS Direct, due to go live in December this year and autumn 2000.
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Louise Boden: 'It is a big sea change - right, but difficult'
Concept: 'I am delighted about clinical governance. It is long overdue. Relationships will be much stronger. It is going to make it necessary for there to be much more dialogue than may have been the case in some places.'
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Doctors button up as wind of change blows through
Revalidation is in their own interests, as well as their patients'