All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-02-18 – Page 3

  • News

    In brief

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    'Almost all' NHS organisations met last year's 31 December deadline for safeguarding date-sensitive computers against the millennium bug, according to the NHS Executive. But the Executive is anticipating a drop in the number of trusts reporting 'satisfactory' or 'good' progress due to tougher human resources and emergency planning targets. Public ...

  • News

    In brief

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    iSoft - formerly known as KPMG Health Systems - has launched Microsoft's Windows NT intranet server product, SQL Server 7.0, onto the NHS market to be used as a platform for electronic health record solutions.

  • News

    In brief

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    East Anglian Ambulance trust has ordered £420,000 worth of telephone and radio communications equipment from Securicor for its regional control centre in Norwich. The contract is the first phase of a £2m programme and includes three extra transmitters. In the next stage, after April, all the trust's ambulances will be ...

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    Doctors button up as wind of change blows through

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Revalidation is in their own interests, as well as their patients'

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    Louise Boden: 'It is a big sea change - right, but difficult'

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    Final bids invited for NHS Direct

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    Bells ring as NHS Direct contracts go to HBOC

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Four more NHS Direct contracts, worth a total of £2.9m, have gone to market leader HBOC.

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    Stop me if you've heard these before

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    Territorial Army manoeuvres cause 'conflict' between MoD and NHS

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    Roylance appeal focuses on 'bias'

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    Pay proposals spark 'disgust and dismay' among unions

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    Ambulance trusts behind in IT bug fight

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    A fatal outbreak of ambition

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    '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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    Misconduct allegation against trust chief executive

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive of a Scottish trust has been reported to the General Medical Council.

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    GP deputising 'failures' added to holiday crisis

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    'Largest' network links acute sites

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    North Essex health authority has ordered the largest 'community of interest network' yet to be built in England.

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    BMA accuses police on surgeon contract

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    West Midlands Police has come under fire for privatising its police surgeon service.

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    OFT probes 'abuses' by private health firms

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading is investigating a series of allegations about uncompetitive behaviour in private medicine.