All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-10-14 – Page 2

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    In Brief: Dyfed Powys

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Dyfed Powys health authority has agreed to a Welsh Ambulance Services trust proposal to pilot five 24-hour stations in Powys. The plans follow concerns about the level of cover in rural areas. HA chair Margaret Price welcomed the proposals, which will be reviewed in six months' time.

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    In Brief: Merger

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Proposals to merge Mount Vernon and Watford Hospitals trust with St Albans and Hemel Hempstead trust are going out to public consultation. The consultation document sets out two options for change - continued partnership between the two organisations or a merged trust. But Angela Killick, chair of Mount Vernon and ...

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    To catch a thief

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The announcement that children and pensioners will be required to provide proof of their age to claim free prescriptions is only the latest stage in a growing war against fraud in the NHS. Seamus Ward reports

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    Days like this

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Cook's warning. . . Conservative voters unhappy. . . Heckler interrupts Clarke. . . Pressure on doctors. . . Pharmacists snub offer. . .

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    GPs reluctant to deal with mental health

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    GPs are reluctant to meet a rising mental health workload that is taking up almost a third of their time, according to a national survey by mental health charity MACA.

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    Dobson says PFI sign-offs prove Labour is delivering

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The government has finally managed to get the first wave of major private finance initiative deals signed off. Outgoing health secretary Frank Dobson approved a £96m PFI deal for Swindon and Marlborough trust last week, bringing the number of PFI hospitals under construction to 15, with a total value of ...

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    Jowell urges early tackles for teen sex and drug problems

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Tessa Jowell has called for football clubs to follow the example of Woverhampton Wanderers by targeting teenage sex and drug misuse.

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    NHS emergency plans stand up to Paddington pressures

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Early verdicts on the Paddington rail crash, which killed up to 40 people and injured 150, are that NHS emergency plans stood up to the pressures of 'a classic major incident'.

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    Security of job and home 'essential for mentally ill'

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Access to work that pays a living wage is essential for people with mental health problems , King's Fund community care director Janice Robinson told a conference attended by education and employment minister Margaret Hodge last week. 'What people with mental illnesses need most are the things that the majority ...

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    Events

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Porters South, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW. Fax: 0171-843 4670.

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    New pay plans face 'inevitable' phase-in

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The new pay system being negotiated for the NHS will be phased in because not all trusts are expected to be ready to implement it in full.

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    Scots services 'failing to hit targets'

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Community mental health services have failed to reach standards laid down by the Scottish Office two years ago, according to the Accounts Commission for Scotland.

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    Sly and the family Sloanes

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Liam Fox's speech to the Conservative Party conference sought to explain the 'Common Sense Revolution' in health policy. Patrick Butler was there

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    Relenza verdict forces 'fasttrack' re-think

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is to review its fast-track appraisal procedure following outgoing health secretary Frank Dobson's decision to reject Relenza for NHS prescription this winter.

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    First principles

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Setting up a widely-based team to consider ethical issues has enabled one PCG to move beyond individual opinion. John Ribchester and Caroline Baker report

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    As the going gets tough the tough get reshuffled

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Frank Dobson's Blairite successor will be no easy touch financially