All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-05-27
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13th hospital deal signed
A deal giving the go-ahead for a £67m, 347-bed hospital for Bishop Auckland, County Durham, has been signed at 10 Downing Street. It will be the 13th major hospital built under the PFI scheme.
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Rating of IT arrangements (August to October 1998)
Interviewees were asked to rate IT arrangements using a 1-5 scale.
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Only 60 new jobs as counter-fraud unit starts
I read with interest your news story 'Counter-fraud teams bring hundreds of jobs' (news, page 5, 29 April).
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Not as bad as it looks: the accounts
At first sight, the confederation's accounts look disastrous: turnover appears to have plummeted, with management costs soaring as virtually all other activity comes to a halt (see table, below).
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Short cuts Multiple sclerosis charity wants NICE action on drug
The Multiple Sclerosis Society is calling for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to look at the provision of beta interferon to ensure it is 'available equitably to those patients whose consultants believe they will benefit from it'. In an adjournment debate in the House of Commons, MP John Bercow ...
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Short cuts HAs' reviews of acute services point to cost-cutting
Three-quarters of health authorities in England and Wales have undertaken a recent review of acute services without official instruction from the Department of Health, according to an unpublished NHS Support Federation survey of directors of public health. Only 10 per cent of HAs carrying out a review had a budget ...
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Advice from rich man in Roller is not welcome
Don't trust a man who drives a Roller to advise how to make a Morris Minor go faster. Roy Lilley (letters, 13 May) has ideas which are both good and original, 'but those which are good are not original, and those which are original are not good'.
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Patients sent to private hospital face ops after eye injection error
An independent inquiry has been set up to investigate how 19 patients came to be injected with a potentially blinding solution at a private hospital as part of a blitz on NHS waiting lists.
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Research aims to define equity and where the worst inequities apply
It is interesting to read of progress with health improvement initiatives and health action zones.
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Short cuts 'Appalling' racism found in psychiatric hospitals
A Mental Health Act Commission visit to collect information on patients from black and ethnic minorities found 'appalling instances' of poor treatment. More than 150 commissioners visited 110 psychiatric hospitals this month to investigate their policies, procedures and practice. The findings are due to be published in October. Commissioner Kamlesh ...
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NICE sets timetable for appraisals
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence still hopes to produce its first set of guidelines and appraisals this year.
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Money talks: the price of a clinical audit department
To calculate the hourly cost per person in the clinical audit department, we divide the total pay and non-pay annual cost of running the department (£156,878 in 1997-98) by the total person hours available each year (12,316 in 1997-98) to provide an hourly cost per person (£12.74 for 1997-98).
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Unions furious as trust cuts nurses' pay award
Nursing unions have been angered by a Glasgow trust's attempt to claw back part of its nurses' pay.