All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-03-11
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Brown promises £500m extra for NHS
Chancellor Gordon Brown saved the announcement of an extra £500m for the NHS until the dying minutes of his Budget speech on Tuesday.
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Short cuts £40m earmarked to put an end to mixed-sex wards
The government is directing £40m of this year's £1.1bn NHS capital investment programme towards eliminating mixed-sex wards. Health secretary Frank Dobson, who described the allocation as 'the first real-terms increase in capital for the NHS in the last five years', said 95 per cent of health authorities should be able ...
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Probe reveals ambulance trust 'overstated' 999 response times
An ambulance trust 'overstated' emergency response times, an investigation has found.
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Short cuts Call for action on private healthcare 'deficiencies'
The government has been urged to tackle 'fundamental deficiencies' in private healthcare by Action for Victims of Medical Accidents. In evidence to the health select committee, AVMA says 'inadequate specialist medical and nursing cover' is a 'critical factor' in failures to diagnose post- operative complications at private hospitals. It says ...
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Short cuts Colorectal cancer screening pilots announced
Ministers have announced colorectal cancer screening pilot services for England and Scotland. The English site is in Coventry and Warwickshire. The Scottish pilot is in Tayside, Grampian and Fife. The project will run for two years, with screening kits sent to patients' homes, before being sent to laboratories for testing. ...
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Short cuts King's Fund appoints new senior associates
Baroness Cumberlege, Lord Harris of Haringey, Catherine McLoughlin and Sir Leslie Turnberg have been appointed senior associates of the King's Fund. Sir Leslie will work with the Health Quality Service on clinical standards, while NHS Confederation chair Ms McLoughlin will work on 'professional roles and leadership development'. Baroness Cumberlege, a ...
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Pioneering programme teams managers with lecturers in attempt to marry practice and development
Chris Ham stresses the importance of management development grounded in management practice, and suggests a practitioner faculty as one answer. We agree, but are experimenting with other approaches to forge this link.
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Idle hands must not tinker with devolution's big issues Politicians may interfere with health if chiefs and chairs are not clued up
It surely says something about the uncertainties of devolution that Northern Ireland's health minister can put forward a plan for reforming health and social services broadly on a par with the white paper shake- ups of England, Scotland and Wales only to have his carefully worked-through proposals welcomed as 'an ...
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Dyke: 'Patients not to blame for no-shows'
Three out of four patients who fail to show up for a doctor's appointment do so because of poor communications and management systems, according to a leading government adviser.
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'Bolam test' didn't save HA from smear defeat
Women's confidence in the reliability of cervical smear tests is bound to have been dented by the cases brought against Kent and Canterbury health authority by three women who developed cervical cancer.
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Short cuts Family of dead boy claims hospital failed him
Schoolboy Imran Khan, 15, would still be alive if he had received proper hospital treatment, his family lawyer claimed at a fatal accident inquiry into his care at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow. Anne Smith QC said there was evidence that a doctor had pushed a chest drain further ...
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The British Medical Association has warned that 'a growing workforce crisis' could leave 350 obstetricians and gynaecologists without NHS contracts in 2001. The BMA's junior doctors committee has asked the Department of Health to fund new consultant posts and wants a 12-month extension on current contracts.
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A ground-breaking employment tribunal award of £103,000 for disability discrimination has been increased to £167,000. British Sugar was ordered to pay £103,000 to partially-sighted Nick Kirker in 1997 for unfairly selecting him for redundancy. Now the tribunal has ordered the company to meet his tax liabilities on the award, as ...