All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-11-04
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Deacon announces £1m for 'seamless' provision
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has announced £1m investment in 14 projects to encourage 'seamless care' for patients under the Designed to Care initiative, which has already released £2m for service redesign at Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals trust and Lothian University Hospitals trust .
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In brief: year 2000 computer date problem
Trusts and health authorities have been told to 'maintain a state of readiness' for the year 2000 computer date problem - and 'be aware' that 29 February 2000 could also present problems. Tests have identified a 'proportion of failures' in connection with the leap-year date change.
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300 NHS staff could be seconded to CHI
Up to 300 staff could be seconded from frontline NHS jobs to the Commission for Health Improvement, which was given its official launch by prime minister Tony Blair this week.
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Scots campaigners want action on long-term care
Age Concern Scotland has launched a campaign in favour of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care. The WeCare campaign will aim to persuade the Scottish Parliament to implement the recommendations to 'restore dignity and fairness to the care system'. Commission chair Sir Stewart Sutherland backed the campaign, ...
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Tobacco ad ban hitch
Anti-smoking campaigners have expressed disappointment at a High Court ruling blocking the government's tobacco advertising ban.
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In brief: Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition
The government's new committee on nutrition and health, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, will replace the current Committee on Medical Aspects of Food and Nutrition Policy.
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Take a deep breath and try again
Parliamentary time is needed to put the tobacco ad ban beyond doubt
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Costs set to rise as 'success fee' gets go ahead
From early next year a change in the law will allow winning claimants to recover from their opponents not just legal costs - as now - but also any insurance premium paid and the 'success fee' payable to their lawyers for taking on a no-win no-fee case.
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Fox announces review groups for key topics
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox is to set up four policy review groups for mental health, long-term care, primary care and medical ethics.
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Arts surgery
A new national council aims to promote the use of music, dance, drama and painting in the health service. Laura Donnelly tunes in
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Former mentally ill patient stranded at Ashworth by lack of care plan
Russell Hall was 23 when he killed his girlfriend nine years ago. Found guilty of manslaughter by reason of insanity, he is detained at Ashworth Hospital without limit of time under the Mental Health Act.
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Junior doctor drafted in to help Assembly cut hours
A junior doctor has been seconded to the Welsh Assembly for nine months to 'help identify how doctors' working hours can be reduced and working conditions improved'. Dr Catrin Elis Williams, 25, was a senior house officer in general medicine at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
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In brief: Immigration and Asylum Bill
The government's Immigration and Asylum Bill risks damaging refugees' health, the King's Fund has warned. It has called on ministers to withdraw the bill 'in its current form', claiming it would cause 'unnecessary suffering to people awaiting a decision' on their application for refugee status.
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Welsh bed numbers drop by a third in two decades
The number of hospital beds in Wales has dropped by a third in less than 20 years, but roughly twice as many patients are receiving hospital treatment. A summary of statistics from Wales published last week shows that the number of beds fell by 8,000 to 15,000 between 1980 and ...
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As winter begins to bite so will a newly sceptical media
Managers should beware as Milburn passes on the pressure to deliver
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Langlands blames market for unknown cost of IT strategy
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has blamed the internal market for being unable to say how much was spent on the NHS's first information management and technology strategy or exactly what it achieved.