All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-10-07 – Page 3

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    Shouldering the blame

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    An unnecessarily painful end to the life of her elderly mother left Mary Rosenberg with a sense of injustice

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    Relenza provides baptism of fire for fledgling institute

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    But NICE must reassure patients that it acts in their interests, too

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    Favouring poor will drive rich away

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Countdown begins for HSJ award nominees

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Eighteen entries in this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have reached the shortlist. Health secretary Frank Dobson will announce the winners and present the prizes on 11 November.

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    Third HA plan follows Assembly pressure

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Cash-strapped Dyfed Powys health authority has issued its third set of proposals for dealing with its situation in three years.

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    Transfer arrangements inadequate, report finds

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    A report into the continuing transfer of learning disability patients from Lennox Castle Hospital in Glasgow has criticised the 'planning and delivery of services to children and adolescents'. Lennox Castle, run by Greater Glasgow Primary Care trust, is due to close by March 2002, with its 323 patients discharged into ...

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    More apple pie?

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Conference 'overwhelmingly' passed Labour's new health policy, which had been pieced together from two years of consultation managed by the party's health policy forum.

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    Bristol inquiry hears cardiac unit was 'rumbling appendix'

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Bristol Royal Infirmary's cardiac unit was like a 'rumbling appendix' in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to the former head of South Western regional health authority.

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    CHC appeals to health secretary over cuts

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    North Staffordshire community health council is to refer plans to reconfigure local services to health secretary Frank Dobson, despite a health authority undertaking to submit a revised proposal for consultation next month. CHC members took the step in protest at North Staffordshire HA's proposal to cut elderly continuing care beds ...

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    in brief: Employment Appeal Tribunal

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has taken the rare step of branding as 'perverse' a finding by an employment tribunal that a dismissal was fair. A perverse decision has been defined in cases as one which is 'irrational', 'fundamentally wrong', or which 'offends reason' or 'flies in the fact of properly ...

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    Where angels fear to tread

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Labour leaders singled out doctors' conservatism at last week's party conference. But while Frank Dobson skirted around the issue, Tony Blair went for the jugular. Patrick Butler was there

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    in brief: Andrew Hobart

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Hobart, chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, has warned that 'the threat of industrial action will not be removed' until an agreement over pay and hours has been agreed with the government. In a letter to all juniors, he described a Department of Health claim that ...

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    in brief: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is to receive a £14m grant from the government, international development secretary Clare Short announced last week.

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    Age of the long goodbye

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    There is one certainty in life: as life is a terminal sexually transmitted disease, we will all die.

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    A feather in his cap as His Dobship turns again

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    Despite persistent conference rumours in Bournemouth, I was completely wrong-footed by Frank Dobson's change of heart over the London mayor's job. I was not alone. The night before it emerged in the Sunday Telegraph , Jack Straw said on Radio 4's Any Questions that Nick Raynsford, the minister who had ...

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    No additional funding for flu jabs for NHS staff

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Executive has decided that immunising NHS staff against influenza 'should be regarded as an acceptable part of planning the coming winter' because of the 'exceptional' millennium period. But no additional money will be made available. New guidance says 'employers deciding to offer vaccine will do so on the ...

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    Act compels NHS to provide buildings access for all

    1999-10-07T00:00:00Z

    The latest stage of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 came into force on Friday, requiring service providers to take 'reasonable steps' to ensure that they can be used by disabled people .