All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-12-09 – Page 2

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    To retain doctors we must improve their working hours and pay for excess time

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Staff shortages on the wards: some solutions

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    Days like this

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Lobby opposes NHS Bill. . . Managers want reforms scaled down. . .£103m for IT. . . New DoH deputy secretary. . . Hospital plan opposed

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    Publish and be damned

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Release of a survey showing a likely £1bn NHS deficit brought the HFMA a sharp rebuke at its annual conference last week, reports Lyn Whitfield

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    Short Cuts: Numbers on nursing register fall to seven-year low

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Annual statistics published by the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting show the number of people on its register has fallen to a seven-year low. The number of people registered fell 3,220 to 634,229 last year. But the number leaving the register fell and the number joining ...

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    Short Cuts: Scots secure psychiatric services at 'crisis point'

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    A shortage of secure psychiatric beds and an increase in referrals mean psychiatric services in Scotland have reached crisis point, according to the annual report of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. It says the State Hospital at Carstairs, which provides high-security beds for Scotland and Northern Ireland, will become ...

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    Computer icon

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson watches staff nurse Damon Harritz Grech demonstrate the advanced clinical information system at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, with patient Mark Wainright.

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    Loss cause

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Eighty-five ex-employees of a privatised NHS consultancy who lost their pensions when it went to the wall have reached a settlement - but the fight goes on for those still awaiting justice. Patrick Butler reports

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    Minister issues threat to overrule MSPs in row over cash share out

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Susan Deacon looks set to overrule MSPs in a clash over a major reform of the way NHS funds are shared out.

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    Who cares wins

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The changing nature of nursing in a managerial age By Ian Norman and Sarah Cowley Blackwell Science 192 pages £16.99

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    Short Cuts: Three candidates for Unison general secretary

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Unison has announced that three candidates have received enough nominations to stand for election as general secretary. They are Roger Bannister, Knowsley branch secretary, nominated by one regional council and 66 branches; Malkiat Bilku from London regional branch, nominated by 33 branches; and Dave Prentis, deputy general secretary, nominated by ...

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    Getting a buzz from passing on your wisdom

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Short Cuts: UN commissions NHS Estates team to tackle bug

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    NHS Estates has been commissioned by the United Nations International Year 2000 Cooperation Centre to manage a project taking help and advice on millennium bug issues to health services in developing countries. The Reconstitution Project for Health will run alongside similar global schemes covering communications, energy, finance and transport and ...

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    In Brief: Commission for Health Improvement

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The full membership of the Commission for Health Improvement has been announced.

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    In Brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Twenty heads of multiple sclerosis services are to begin a programme of audit and evaluation to help inform the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on standards for MS care. The MS heads of service network is chaired by Professor Alan Thompson, clinical director of neurorehabilitation and therapy services at the ...

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    In Brief: Capital Solutions

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Healthcare consultancy Capital Solutions, part of Leeds Teaching hospitals trust, has merged with NHS Estates. Kate Priestley, NHS Estates chief executive, said the merger was 'further evidence of NHS Estates being able to connect the centre with the service'. Capital Solution will trade under the NHS Estates banner as part ...

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    Bottomley challenges Milburn on 'dire' NHS

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Former Conservative health secretary Virginia Bottomley says the NHS in her West Surrey constituency is in a 'dire' state and has called for health secretary Alan Milburn to see the extent of bed blocking and trolley waits for himself.

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    Rocking the boat without fear and with confidence

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    The right to criticise policy must be for the many, not the few

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    In Brief: Cancer Black Care information centre

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Home Office minister Paul Boateng opened the Cancer Black Care information centre in Hackney, east London, on Friday. The centre, a joint initiative between Cancer Black Care and Macmillan Cancer Relief, aims to inform healthcare professionals about cultural issues in cancer care.

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    Death rates ignored 'because of trust status bid'

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Dr John Roylance has told the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry that he did not investigate concerns about mortality rates in paediatric cardiac surgery because they were raised in connection with the hospital's application for trust status.