All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-03-18 – Page 2
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Medical school bids flooding in
The government has received a flood of bids from universities eager to win a share of the 1,000 extra medical students promised by 2005.
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Group set to tackle big seven
Baroness Hayman was speaking on the eve of the first meeting of the external reference group that will draw up a national service framework for older people, focusing on NHS services.
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Health Bill fails on patients' rights
'A new statutory duty for quality' was promised in A First Class Service, but the Health Bill going through Parliament seems to sidestep this issue feebly, concentrating on process without enforcing the purpose. Section 13(1) of the draft bill says: 'It is the duty of each primary care trust, and ...
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Once bitten...
The Food Standards Agency's HQ was announced on the first anniversary of the BSE inquiry. But will it win public confidence? Mark Crail reports
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Boosted NHS role in jails 'will be costly'
Proposals to increase NHS responsibility for prison healthcare could have 'high-cost implications' for the health service, prison reformers have warned.
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Fraud busters
Fraud busters: Pippa Farrington (right), chief pharmacist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, looks at a new leaflet issued as part of a government crackdown on prescription fraud with colleague Caroline Fletcher.
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'Deliver clinical governance - or leave'
Chief executives will be 'expected to leave the NHS' if they fail to deliver the government's clinical governance programme, health secretary Frank Dobson warned this week.
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Hot under the collar over lukewarm response to royal commission
Nurses showed that they were furious with the government for its lukewarm response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Down in the Everglades, the lawyers are not so much reptiles as hungry alligators - and they are snapping hard at the heels of any doctor who makes a mistake. If the medical establishment in this country is worried by the rising cost of negligence claims, it should look west, ...
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Damning with faint praise
Nurses may have grudgingly voted to accept the pay award, but the government has its work cut out if the profession is to get 'on-message'. Pat Healy caught the mood at the RCN congress
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Days like this
GPs urged against feeling for wallets... white paper criticism dismissed... Quality in the market... Thatcher steps in... Labour attacks...
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