All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-11-18 – Page 3

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    HAs will have powers to suspend doctors in performance reforms

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Health authorities will be given the power to suspend incompetent GPs as part of a government drive against poorly performing doctors.

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    Dumbing down at the Dome

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

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    'Prudence, don't leave me'

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    The chancellor's lady friend will be upset by predictions that the brave new NHS reforms will bring soaring deficits, writes Mark Gould

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    Events

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    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 , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254. E-mail: hsjeditorial@healthcare.emap.co.uk Due to pressure on space, publication cannot ...

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    In tents experience

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    With an emphasis on 'positive well-being', the Dome's approach to health issues isn't rigorously intellectual. But the Tube link is superb. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    Mental health green paper includes forcible treatment

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    'Radical' reforms to mental health law will mean forcible treatment for community patients who refuse to take their medication.

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    GADFLY

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    An everyday story of trust folk, appearing fortnightly The moment has come to unveil the trust's fragrant new chair. And what of the chief executive? . . .

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    Very model of a modern major general

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    The development of a clinical site management team, made up of nurses, has improved use of beds and allowed more admissions in one district general hospital. Diane Eamer reports

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    Learning the hard way

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    An evaluation of training uncovered some harsh realities about student life and significant discrepancies between nursing and other students. Alan Randall and Penny Tamkin report

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    Waiting lists are 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable'

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Waiting lists provide an 'inefficient, obscure and unaccountable' method of rationing care and should be scrapped, according to the King's Fund.

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    Inspiration, not perspiration

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    The Ambulance Service Association's members don't balk at more millennium planning - they seem to relish it. Laura Donnelly reports

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    Monitor

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Monitor is a great fan of Tory health spokesman Dr Liam Fox.

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    In person

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Dr Lyn Griffiths, a Rugby GP, has been appointed director of primary care for Warwickshire health authority. He has been a nonexecutive director of the HA.

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    Washing up

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    A nurse takes part in hand hygiene week, an initiative by Leeds health organisations to persuade healthcare staff and the public to help control infection by frequent and thorough hand washing. It follows a study that found 89 per cent of healthcare workers failed to wash every part of their ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-11-18T00:00:00Z

    Law Commission proposals earlier this month to allow the NHS to recover the cost of treating patients who are injured by someone else's negligence or wrongdoing may prove something of a mixed blessing for the health service. But they are certainly good news for lawyers.