All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-01-13 – Page 2
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Warning on disability discrimination
An out-of-court settlement by the large construction company, John Laing plc, is a salutary warning for employers of the dangers of rejecting job applicants on the basis of their mental health history, rather than current evidence of their ability to do the job.
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Didn't they do well?
Knight: Professor George Alberti, president of the Royal College of Physicians, for services to diabetic medicine.
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Days like this
Health authorities with severe cash problems are to be granted immunity from the government's demand that all districts balance their income and expenditure levels by April 1991. NHS finance director Sheila Masters said she expected the service's deficit to be £50m at the end of 1989-90, but was optimistic this ...
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Warning over cost variation
The publication of tables showing huge differences in the cost of hospital treatment has been greeted with some scepticism by senior managers.
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Vote signals unity for Confederation
The NHS Confederation this week promised a year of real delivery and increasingly assertive political influence as it voted in a new unified constitution.
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MP's to investigate comprehensive spending review
The Commons Treasury select committee has announced an investigation into the governments comprehensive spending review, focusing on the accountability of the new cross-departmental studies that will form part of it. The Treasury has said that as part of the next review, 13 cross-cutting reviews will be carried out. They include ...
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Good practice: a sample of patients positive comments
Attitudes of medical staff I have nothing but praise for Mr I even saw him in the main hospital (after discharge) when I went for a blood test and he went out of his way to come and speak to me. He was really, really nice.
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Troubled HA gets new chief
Dyfed Powys health authority has appointed a chief executive to succeed Peter Stansbie, who left by mutual agreement in September .
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Ruling on confidentiality cheers HAs
Health authorities will welcome a keenly awaited Court of Appeal judgement, delivered virtually unnoticed just before Christmas, which overturns a High Court ruling banning the use of anonymised patient data on grounds of confidentiality .
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GP hits out at regular checks on competence
A leading GP has attacked moves to force doctors to take regular competence tests as part of a plan to control and manage family doctors .
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Right to compensation in failed vasectomy cases no longer holds
The House of Lords has amazed medical negligence lawyers by overturning the principle, well established in English law since 1985, that parents who produce a healthy child after a failed vasectomy or sterilisation can claim the cost of its upbringing if they can prove negligence.
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Deacon launches group to look at community care
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has launched a joint future group to look into the delivery of community care in Scotland. The group will be chaired by deputy community care minister Iain Gray, and will include a number of NHS chief executives. Ms Deacon said it would investigate funding, including ...
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The long, good buy
It takes the NHS a scarcely believable two and a half years to buy a computer system. This is nearly twice as long as the rest of the public sector, and is a prime cause of the parlous state of NHS computing.
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The odd couple: I realised we were not going to get rid of this bugger
I didn't like him and he didn't like me.
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Three degrees: different types of booking projects
Whole health authority - Dorset The pilot includes the five trusts in Dorset and all GPs. The aim is to ensure that by 31 March 2005 any
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Good RAPPORT: booking online
This pilot has created an online booking system to enable GPs to book patients directly into specific consultant outpatient clinics. The RAPPORT - rapid access project programme for outpatient review and treatment - system will enhance the existing booking systems. It provides a seamless link between the hospital and GPs ...
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Ministers plan price cuts to rescue beleaguered NHSnet
The cost of using the NHS's internal computer network is set to plummet following a deal hammered out with telecommunications firms.
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Money can't buy you health but its handy for extra beds
Why is the NHS struggling to cope with a flu outbreak yet again? Is it the sheer scale of the infection? Hardly: it may yet reach epidemic proportions, but at a peak so far of 144 sufferers per 100,000 population in England it is modest compared with the 200 recorded ...
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