All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-04-01
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Medical devices in users' homes fall through year 2000 loophole
Thousands of medical devices in patients' houses and nursing homes have slipped through a hole in the NHS Executive's year 2000 programme, it emerged last week.
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Commissioner for public appointments Did Sir Len ask the chairs about manipulation?
I was fascinated to read that Dame Rennie Fritchie has been appointed as commissioner for public appointments (news focus, page 14, 4 March).
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Short cuts Acheson praises government action on inequalities
The government has done 'far more than we ever dreamed of' to tackle inequalities in health, Sir Donald Acheson told HSJ this week. Sir Donald said he was 'amazed at how much work' the government had done in response to his Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, published six months ...
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Trusts disappear across UK
More than 100 trusts are affected by mergers taking place across the UK today.
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Waiting-list target hit a month ahead of schedule
The government's pledge to cut waiting lists to pre-election levels has been achieved a month early in England.
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Careering ahead:
Bharpur Singh Mudhuadia (left), Mandeep Singh and Jasmeet Saahney (right), from Hounslow Manor School, west London, read a careers pamphlet on medical physics at a Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust careers day.
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Short cuts Parish protests as ambulance siren 'disturbs peace'
An ambulance trust has come under fire for using sirens and 'disturbing the peace' of a village in Suffolk. East Anglian Ambulance trust was criticised last month for 'overstating' response times in an independent inquiry. Now parish councillors in Cavendish, near Sudbury, have written to the trust protesting that sirens ...
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Policy and substance will stop NHSnet becoming an anoraks' jamboree
While I strongly agree with Carole Appleby that chief executives and others should be encouraged to use the increasing range of information available, I need to sound a note of warning.
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Roylance appeal to privy council fails
The Privy Council has dismissed Dr John Roylance's appeal against being struck off for his part in the Bristol case.
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Reference-cost figures could be much improved by application of a blunt instrument
Before the advent of league tables - and even before the dawn of the Thatcher era - hospitals were required to publish figures for costs per inpatient week. High-spending institutions were exhorted to investigate reasons for their supposed poor performance. The naivety of this approach was exposed by an economist ...
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Prison healthcare working group avoids shifting onus on to the NHS
Proposals for managing prison healthcare have shied away from shifting accountability to the NHS.
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Banking on listening skills
Former bank manager Paul Cookson has more than most riding on the success of PCGs. He is one of the handful of people from outside the NHS to be appointed as a PCG chief executive.
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Walk before you web
I was interested and amused by Carole Appleby's letter (4 March) regarding use of the web to promote communication in the NHS. But while I agree with the concept of sharing information and innovations, I think we should learn to walk before we can run.
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Short cuts Campaigners launch designer bike helmet scheme
The Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust has launched a 'prescription' scheme to bring 'designer' cycle helmets within reach of more children. About 100,000 children need hospital treatment every year as a result of cycling accidents, but only 18 per cent of young riders wear helmets. The BHIT says children are more ...