All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-05-06 – Page 2
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Days like these
45 bids for trust status... Unions ousted from health boards... Manager quits to steer Guy's... GPs pull back... White paper cash warning...
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Short cuts Leeds HA sets up healthcare for Kosovan refugees
Leeds health authority is monitoring the health of 161 Kosovan refugees who flew into the city last week. HA and social services officials worked together on a programme of immediate checks when the group arrived, and a spokesperson said attention would continue to be paid to 'the possible emergence of ...
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Medical charities clocked up a £399m investment in university research during 1997-98, and are thought to have put in a further £471m in the past year.
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Putting Princess Diana in the (correct) picture
Your article 'Why roll out the red carpet' was a useful and informative report, but the picture of Princess Diana was not taken at the Deaf Association, but dates from January 1989 when she visited the Service for Hearing Impaired Children, Kingston.
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There's no grace in this saving Unison members are treating meanness with the contempt it deserves
The second anniversary of Labour's coming to power passed just days after Unison members had voted by three to one to ballot on a strike over the millennium weekend in protest at the government's refusal to agree a national pay bonus for staff who work during the holiday.
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Short cuts 'Stifled competition will create shortages' warning
Maverick Conservative former trust chair John Spiers has argued the NHS is the 'last failed nationalised industry' in a book published by right- wing think-tank the Institute of Economic Affairs. The decision to remove the price mechanism and 'stifle competition' have created 'the classic conditions for scarcity', Mr Spiers argues, ...
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Payback threat to Edinburgh's new chief
A high-profile NHS manager could be forced to pay back a six-figure sum after securing the top job at one of Scotland's flagship trusts within weeks of leaving Wales' largest provider.
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Developing PCTs: a checklist for managers and clinicians
Values, rather than structures and frameworks, should guide the overall activities of PCTs.
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It's the times that are a changin' job titles - not senior managers' egos
Steve Ainsworth's article on job titles (Yorkshire terrier, 8 April) seems to be based on an assumption that senior NHS managers have for years been on some sort of power trip, succumbing to craving more and more impressive- sounding titles which would 'truly reflect and encapsulate their worth and importance'.
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Short cuts Millennium Dome to have its own medical centre
A medical centre will be established at the Millennium Dome, funded by the organisers but managed by an accident and emergency consultant from Greenwich Healthcare trust. The centre will be staffed by a doctor and emergency nurse practitioner from the trust and a paramedic and technician from London Ambulance Service ...
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Short cuts BMA wins equal pay victory for part-time doctors
The British Medical Association has claimed a 'major equal pay victory' in a case involving 867 doctors working part-time in mental health. An employment tribunal in Birmingham heard three test cases brought by the BMA, which argued that the refusal to give mental health officer status and benefits to part-time ...
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Building blocks: the future shape of PCTs
Visible integration of primary and community health services at the interface of hospital and community provision.
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Condemnation: conference blasts the bombers
The conference unanimously endorsed a statement condemning the nail bomb attacks in the multi-racial Brick Lane and Brixton areas of London.
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Trust fails to spot postage stamp sale fraud by manager - and NHS Executive picks up the bill
A trust failed to spot that one of its managers was making money by buying and selling stamps - even though it put most of its mail through a franking machine.
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