All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-02 – Page 3

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    Events

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

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    Grey matters for the Milburnians

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    The first thing I did when I heard that Alan Milburn was making sweeping changes in the Department of Health's top management structure after Sir Alan Langlands' sudden departure was to ring a well-placed senior official close to the top of the Whitehall tree.

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    Super groupers

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Inclusivity and partnership will be major features of PCG clinical governance plans, due next month. Jenny Cook looks at how one practice tackled the issues

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    Knock knock

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Presenting mental health in a good light is an uphill struggle to combat negative press coverage. Laura Donnelly reports

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    Sounds of shackles loosening

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Blair's statement is just one sign that managers may win more freedom

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    Monitor

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Monitor has a soft spot for the government's beacons scheme.

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    in person

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Toni Letts will become chair of Croydon health authority on 1 April.

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    Power with responsibility

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Harold Shipman has now spent the first four weeks of the rest of his life in prison. The NHS, meanwhile, will have to grapple for some time to come with the issues his case has raised.

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    Suicide reduction targets 'unrealistic'

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Government targets to reduce suicide rates are unrealistic and cannot be achieved among mentally ill people, both planners and users of mental health services agreed last week.

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    Scapegoats in the wilderness

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Sir Alan Langlands is not alone in leaving his job sooner than expected. But at least he left amicably - unlike other victims of the NHS's habit of ridding itself of chief executives in mid-contract. It's such a waste, says Andrew Wall

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-03-02T00:00:00Z

    Five years have passed since the then Conservative government asked the Clinical Standards Advisory Group to review services for children with cleft lip and palate, and two years have gone by since it reported back. But progress to date on putting its sweeping proposals for consolidation and reform into practice ...