All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-04-15 – Page 2
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Report shows gaps in services for people with special needs
Despite overall improvement in local authority services for people with special needs, some councils are falling behind in assessing children, an Audit Commission report says.
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Writer's 'van' reference drove me to distraction
While I applaud Lynn Massey-Davis' desire to experience first-hand what happens on a night shift in Hull ('Siren voices', 18 March) and accept that she says she 'learned a great deal', it is a pity that she did not learn two fundamentals.
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Vacancies at the top force merger delays
Trusts have been forced to postpone mergers for six months or more because they have failed to appoint chairs to the board in time, HSJ inquiries have revealed. And many of the trusts that went live in April still lack chief executives.
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Days like this
Mellor shown up by his family's GP... but tells managers white paper proposals are open for debate... Scottish Labour MPs claim Tories stole their ideas... Nurses oppose regional pay
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
The first 'working draft' map of the human gene sequence will be in the public domain by February 2000. By then, according to scientists in the UK and US working on the project, the position of 90 per cent of the 3 billion letters or bases that make up the ...
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Quality of life is what counts - not labelling
Cliff Prior from the National Schizophrenia Fellowship is absolutely correct to separate danger from diagnosis ('Personality disorder debate', letters, 25 March).
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Culture club: problem prevention
Despite cynicism from some doctors, 'more were inspired than usual' about the chance to 'get the culture right', chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson told delegates.
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National HIV strategy must set clear targets on prevention cash spending
Your report on our survey into how health authorities use the funding they receive for HIV prevention has helped further the debate about the quality and level of HIV prevention services ('AIDS trust attacks HAs in spending row', 25 January).
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MP calls for Dobson probe into 'conflict of interest' as ex-NHS manager gets job with IT contractor
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been asked to investigate allegations of a conflict of interest surrounding the appointment of an NHS information technology manager to an IT company which has a lucrative contract with his trust.
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New year honour brought home the lesson that we need to recognise the impact of our mentors
May I, albeit belatedly, use your letters page to thank all the people who wrote to me following my inclusion in the new year honours list.
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Breast screening halted in Cumbria
Health service managers were due to hold crisis talks this week after breast screening services in one of England's most sparsely populated counties collapsed.
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