All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-12-16 – Page 3
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Death becomes her
Crime novelist PD James has spent her career writing about murder, but in her autobiography she reflects on her 19 years' work as an NHS administrator, and painful experiences of mental illness in the family. Joanna Lyall reports
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Junior doctors threaten strike ballot over pay offer
Junior doctors say the government must come up with a better pay offer or members will be balloted on strike action. Andrew Hobart, chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, said the money on offer was 'not acceptable' and the committee is seeking an urgent meeting with health ...
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Byrne under fire: Jackson on the attack
One of Conservative MEP Dr Caroline Jackson's first acts on becoming chair of the European Parliament's environment, public health and consumer protection committee was to put European commissioner David Byrne on the ropes.
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In brief: British Medical Association
The government is putting £12m into the discretionary points system for consultants as part of a £50m deal with the British Medical Association. Agreement has also been reached in principle on the issues to be discussed in new contract negotiations.
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Upping the anti
Anti-abortionists in Scotland are on the march, threatening the security of those working in family planning clinics. Colin Wright reports
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Andy Biotic wins award for plain-speaking DoH
The Department of Health has won a Plain English Campaign award for a leaflet intended to cut overuse of antibiotics.
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In brief: NHS among European countries
Italy is the biggest user of the NHS among European countries, spending £3.1m in 1998-99 on referring patients to the NHS for treatment. Ireland spent just under £3m on planned NHS treatment; a further £3.5m was claimed back by the NHS for treating Irish citizens on an unplanned basis. Overall, ...
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn launched what is claimed to be the biggest-ever tobacco education campaign in England last week by unveiling a poster urging smokers to 'leave your cigarettes in the 20th century'. The threeyear campaign includes a helpline and website.
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In brief: Alan Milburn
Health secretary Alan Milburn has given the green light to a £75m redevelopment at King's College Hospital in south-east London. The project will create a new six-storey hospital wing, a regional neurosciences centre and centralise the hospital's services on one site. Work on the new building, which is being funded ...
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Jim'll fix it, but Mr Poplar he ain't
By strange coincidence, the previously little-known MP for Poplar and Canning Town, Jim Fitzpatrick, has been thrust into the limelight as a key aide to both the current health secretary, Alan Milburn, and former health secretary Frank Dobson.
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Welsh trusts agree millennium working bonus deal
A last-`minute agreement has been reached on millennium pay by trusts in Wales. Staff working between 8pm on new year's eve and 12pm on 1 January will receive an additional payment of £100 and extra time off in lieu, on top of normal bank holiday entitlements. Welsh health and social ...
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HA chair urges smokers outside after burns death
Birmingham health authority chair Bryan Stoten has highlighted the death of a 53-year-old Solihull woman in a plea to smokers not to smoke at home, and particularly not in bed. She died after suffering 40 per cent burns in a fire that started after she fell asleep while smoking.
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Scots ambulances get priority system after target failures
Scotland's ambulance service is set to introduce a priority despatch system following a National Audit Office finding that just one in three Glasgow ambulances reached a 999 incident within seven minutes, against a target of one in two.
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Short pledges £50m in 'final push' against polio
International development secretary Clare Short has pledged £59m to the 'final push' of a global campaign to eradicate polio, bringing the UK's total contribution to £130m. The funding will go to the Indian government's Pulse Polio Initiative and the World Health Organisation's Polio Eradication Initiative aimed at six countries in ...
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HA pays out £600,000 to member of staff who had amputation after fall at work
An occupational therapy assistant who had her leg amputated after falling twice at a hospital has been paid £600,000 in compensation by County Durham health authority.
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