All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-09
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Trusts braced for impact of act
How will the Human Rights Act impact on the NHS when it comes into force next October?
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Selection of surgeons for inquiries probed after kidney row
The Royal College of Surgeons is to review its procedures for appointing surgeons to independent inquiries, following the revelation that the lead consultant who investigated the removal of a healthy kidney from a patient in Llanelli was himself the subject of legal action over a similar case, and had selected ...
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Mental health PFI plan agreed at last
Plans to replace 'abysmal' buildings housing mental health services in Leeds have finally got the go-ahead almost a decade after the closure of the sites was first proposed. The £47m deal is the largest ever private finance initiative for mental health services.
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Audit Forum aims to clarify public sector relations
The Public Audit Forum has published a paper aimed at clarifying the relationship between public sector auditors and their audited bodies. The forum, which involves the National Audit Office, the Audit Commission, the Accounts Commission for Scotland, and the Northern Ireland Audit Office, has urged public sector auditors to ensure ...
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Appeal for pathway revolution
Information systems must be developed if health authorities and primary care groups are to adopt integrated care pathways in commissioning, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has argued.
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OHE finds flaw in 'aspiration' to match EU spending
The government's 'aspiration' to match the EU average spending on healthcare by 2006 cannot be reached unless it increases the NHS budget by more than the planned 5 per cent per year, according to a study by the Office of Health Economics. It says plans to spend 8 per cent ...
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Dissolution of NI Assembly brings reform schedule juddering to halt
Major reforms of Northern Ireland's health service have been put on ice following the return to direct rule from Westminster.
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Blair line on beds is 'contradictory'
The prime minister's 'U-turn' on NHS spending in the private sector has pitched the health service into confusion, it has been claimed.
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In brief: Public Concern at Work
The charity Public Concern at Work, which advises whistle-blowers, is bringing a High Court challenge to the policy of employment tribunals not to make public the details of cases filed.
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In brief: whole-time nurse equivalents
The number of whole-time nurse equivalents has risen by 3,000 over the past 12-month period, according to estimates from the government statistical service. The figures to September 1999 show an increase of 4,500 nurses in NHS hospital and community health services in England.
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In brief: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare trust
Health ministers have accepted Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare trust's proposals to take over the running of Andover District Community Services trust from April until a primary care trust is formed. But Andover District Community Services trust expressed 'disappointment' that it had not been possible to hand responsibility to a new ...
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In brief: Yvette Cooper
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced appointment of 150 co-ordinators in a bid to cut teenage pregnancies by 50 per cent by the year 2010. The campaign also includes 20 pilot Sure Start Plus schemes which provide teenagers with information and advice.
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In brief: West Midlands regional office
West Midlands regional office has sent warning letters to GPs after a newspaper revealed that a woman later diagnosed as having Creutzveldt-Jakob disease had a hysterectomy at a maternity unit in the region. The instruments used in the operation were sterilised, but later re-used for procedures on other patients. Where ...
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In brief: Health service managers
Health service managers believe that they are scapegoats for NHS failings beyond their control, according to a straw poll of visitors to HSJ 's website. Voting started last Thursday and by Tuesday morning the vote was 168 in favour and 47 against. HSJ also has a new website, with opinion ...
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Calling the shots
The search for health needs Research for health visiting practice Edited by Jane V Appleton and Sarah Cowley Macmillan Press Ltd 206 pages £14.99
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GMC rejects calls for central register
The General Medical Council has rejected calls for it to develop a central register of doctors under suspicion of professional misconduct or involvement in criminal investigations.
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IoD calls for greater private healthcare funding
The Institute of Directors has called for an expansion of private funding of healthcare through an 'NHS passport' scheme offering part-payment of private treatment, to increase healthcare spending without raising taxes. Under the scheme everyone would have free access to core taxfunded healthcare from GPs and NHS-approved trusts. But if ...
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MPs hit out over 'systematic failings' in care inspections
A Commons select committee has attacked 'systematic failings in impenetrable' inspection and complaints procedures for vulnerable people in long-term care.
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On the case
A green paper reviewing the 1983 Mental Health Act proposes the abolition of managers' power to discharge patients. Patricia Gregory urges the government to retain this valuable local safeguard to patient rights