All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-02 – Page 2
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Pay of trust chief executives slides to half the rate for equivalents in private sector
Trust chief executives earned an average of £74,000 last year, less than half the comparable figure for private sector companies, according to a report by Pay and Workforce Research.
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OU poised to take over medical education centre
The Open University in Milton Keynes is poised to strengthen its stake in medical education by taking charge of the Joint Centre for Education in Medicine in May. The postgraduate and continuing education centre for primary and secondary care is relocating from London and will become the Open University Centre ...
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Exeter healthy living centre wins Lottery funding
The New Opportunities Fund has announced a £467,000 grant from National Lottery money for a healthy living centre in Exeter. The St Sidwell's Centre hopes to provide affordable meals in a 'friendly and supportive environment' through a community cafe, run parenting sessions and basic education classes, and provide access to ...
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Central line on the tubes
A new structure for regulating genetic medicine is designed to be more receptive to public concerns than the current set-up. Timothy Milewa and Michael Calnan ask if it can succeed
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Sex discrimination case dismissed
A woman NHS manager has lost her claim for sex discrimination and unfair dismissal at a Berkshire employment tribunal.
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In brief: Dave Prentis
Dave Prentis has won the election for general secretary of Unison and will succeed Rodney Bickerstaffe when he steps down at the end of th is year. The voting was :
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In brief: William Ward
A coroner has recorded a verdict of accidental death on an 88-year-old patient who fell to his death from a hospital window, despite being nursed on a secure ward.
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If I may be so bold. . .
Some of the civil servants running the NHS Executive haven't had an operational role in the health service for years. Ray Rowden says it's time to put top clinicians and managers at the centre
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BMA warns of 'charging'option
The NHS must consider charging patients, the British Medical Association has warned in a consultation document being sent to every GP in the country.
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BMA urges halt to debt recovery following cyclone
The British Medical Association has written to chancellor Gordon Brown and international development secretary Clare Short, urging the government to halt debt recovery from Mozambique in the aftermath of cyclone Eline, which left thousands homeless. Mozambique will soon benefit from government proposals to write off unpayable debt, but the BMA ...
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London trust chief executive blocks CHC's statutory unannounced visits
The chief executive of a major London teaching trust is preventing community health council members from using their statutory right to make unannounced visits.
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Blair threatens those 'who will not change'
The government has toughened its public stance against NHS managers who fail to embrace change and signalled that poor performers could lose their jobs.
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Birds of a feather
Surely a community trust that helps PCGs move to PCT status is signing its own death warrant? Barbara Kennedy takes a more positive view
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HIV detection better in London, but not provinces
The Public Health Laboratory Service has identified a 'considerable improvement' in the number of HIV-positive pregnant women diagnosed before they gave birth in London, but warned that there are few signs of improvement elsewhere. Its latest Communicable Disease Report Weekly says the proportion of women in London diagnosed before or ...
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Whitewash: the demands of a bereaved family
In July 1998, a man was admitted to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital in a critical condition. Following brain-stem testing and confirmation that he was dead, the hospital's transplant co-ordinator discussed organ donation with the patient's family.
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Managers are bearing brunt of fraud probes
Managers and administrative workers are subject to more fraud investigations than any other NHS staff group, according to an unpublished document compiled by the Department of Health's new fraud squad.
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Beacons need proper input more than propaganda
It is the frontline staff, not politicians, who can boost sites' low profiles
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Beacon sites fail to ignite interest
Beacon sites are failing to capture the imagination of the rest of the health service, HSJ research has revealed.
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In brief: West Surrey health authority
West Surrey health authority finance director Peter Reeves told a recent board meeting that planning for the millennium had delivered benefits to the NHS, including modernisation of computer equipment and better contingency planning. Addenbrooke's trust has announced that it is retaining its millennium management centre as an operations centre because ...
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