All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-06-03 – Page 4
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How delegates voted
61 per cent did not believe PCGs, local health groups or local healthcare co-operatives would make a real difference or improvement in their first year. But in the second year this fell to 27 per cent, with 49 per cent confident PCGs would make a real improvement.
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Done the job, won the respect Dobson's new-found goodwill towards managers reflects hard work
The undercurrent of antagonism towards managers that used to emanate from health secretary Frank Dobson's speeches was strikingly absent from his address to the NHS Confederation's conference. He oozed goodwill and emphasised that his customary messages of admiration for NHS staff included managers, too.
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New emphasis on leadership
The NHS needs a leadership drive aimed at all team leaders, at whatever level - that is likely to be a key recommendation of the staff involvement taskforce's report, due to be published in July.
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Hard-working volunteers do an excellent job
As a new CHC chief officer who has worked in the NHS for 25 years, I have been amazed at the amount of work going on representing the public interest both individually and collectively on a regional basis. CHCs all aim to be effective. We prepare annual plans, set objectives ...
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Lying in the wolf's mouth: an exile of terror
Bedrije Heta fled to the UK from Kosovo when the police threatened to kill her husband. For the past year the couple and their three daughters have found sanctuary in London. But she fears for her relatives back home in Pristina. 'In our language we say they are lying in ...
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Value-added facts
opinion; Dr Jonathan Shapiro is a senior fellow at Birmingham University's health services management centre.
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Thornton gives finance warning
The NHS is facing its most difficult financial year for some time, warned confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton, and it was 'folly' to expect trusts to make yearly cash-releasing savings.
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Flight paths
refugee care: Health services have been gearing up to help refugees from Kosovo - and are learning from experience how best to support often traumatised people. Bernadette Friend reports