All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-03-04 – Page 4

  • News

    Welsh NHS stocktake is a surprise to managers

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Managers have been baffled by the announcement of a major 'stocktake' of the NHS in Wales.

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    monitor

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    It was fluffy bunnies at the local animal sanctuary (Monitor, 18 February). But now Monitor can reveal the real John Hutton. He is born to be mild. Our man in the waterproofs and trilby crash helmet was ushered into the junior health minister's presence last week to hear about government ...

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    The public has a part to play in NHS rationing

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    In your recent news focus ('Arousing debate', page 12-13, 4 February) about the government's plans to limit prescribing of Viagra, I read with much interest Professor Ruth Chambers' comments that health secretary Frank Dobson 'fell at the first hurdle...' because 'if rationing is to be effective, you have to carry ...

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    Soothe operator

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    news focus

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    Other recommendations of the report

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    A single pay spine should be introduced for all NHS staff, including ancillary workers.

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    in person

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Sheena Cumiskey has taken up her new job as chief executive of Wigan and Leigh Health Services trust. She was previously chief executive of Halton General Hospital trust. Ms Cumiskey replaces Pearse Butler, who has become chief executive of Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen trust.

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    Not so private: views on PFI

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    'There were a lot of hopes pinned on PFI. I think in terms of its aspirations it was seriously flawed. A lot of the schemes were predicated on pretty poor foundations. The only way they were ever going to be viable was by including so many of the support services ...

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    Ready, steady?

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    open space

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    REFERENCES

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    teaching hospitals

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    Wait watchers

    1999-03-04T00:00:00Z

    Casualty Watch observers returned to their posts one month on from a national exercise to discover all was not well. Barbara Millar reports