All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-16
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10-month cancer delay casts doubt on ability to improve
Cancer patients have been waiting up to 10 months for treatment, according to a national 'baseline audit' casting doubt on services' ability to improve at the pace demanded by the government and public.
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£10m renal cash follows expose
London regional director Nigel Crisp is to enter emergency talks with the capital's top renal specialists, following a public exposure of the 'worsening crisis' facing their units by senior clinicians.
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Trust co-op's £20m plan gets go-ahead
The Treasury has at last approved the proposals put forward by a group of co-operating trusts in South West region to procure a high-specification electronic health record system. The decision comes three months later than the regional office had expected.
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Type 2 diabetes
Three million people in the UK could have type 2 diabetes by the end of the decade, and many will suffer kidney failure. But diagnosis and management of the problem show disturbing inadequacies, argue Arabella Melville and colleagues
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Huge variation in availability of HA-funded abortions
Guidelines published this week on the use of abortions have flagged up variations in availability which mean that 90 per cent of procedures are funded by just 19 health authorities in England and Wales.
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In Brief: Harold Shipman inquiry will be 'open and accessible'
The Department of Health has promised that the independent inquiry into the Harold Shipman case will be 'open and accessible' to relatives of his victims. Led by Lord Laming, former chief inspector of the Social Services Inspectorate, the inquiry has been set up under the NHS Act and is closed ...
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Doctors' groups slam go-ahead for PCT in face of GPs' opposition ad
GP leaders from four national bodies have issued a joint attack on Southend primary care group's application to become a primary care trust next month despite a ballot in which local GPs opposed the move.
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Denham braves Alliance after row
Health minister John Denham this week faced an audience with the NHS Alliance - just days after the organisation had been ordered to rip out his foreword to its latest paper.
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In Brief: Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency will be formally established on 1 April. Regulations to complete the handover of food safety and standards responsibilities to the new agency were signed by junior health minister Gisela Stuart last week.
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Short Cuts: Pensions Agency to contract out support services
The NHS Pensions Agency has announced plans to contract out support services in an effort to reduce administration costs. The agency says the proposals could ultimately generate savings of some £3m a year and 'make better use of new computer technology and the Internet'. The contract is likely to include ...
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Press ahead without me
In his first speech since announcing his resignation, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands emphasised the pressures on health service managers, increasingly in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. Paul Stephenson reports
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All dosed up
All trusts must have electronic prescribing systems by 2005, the NHS information strategy stipulates. One trust has been successfully using such a package for some time, writes Peter Mitchell
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Antibodies of evidence
Increased lab automation means that the tedious job of cross-matching blood samples will soon be passed on to computers, writes Peter Mitchell
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Non-execs too important to be ministers' appointees
Politicians of all hues cannot resist temptation to favour party faithful
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Deacon orders rethink of Arbuthnott funding plans
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has ordered the Arbuthnott steering group to produce new proposals after rejecting its original plans to change the way NHS funding is shared out.
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Doc around the clock
The future of out-of-hours medical care, now under government scrutiny, has many potential scenarios - and most seem to involve NHS Direct, writes Alison Moore
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Short Cuts: Welsh Assembly issues social exclusion indicators
The Welsh Assembly has published 50 indicators mapping social exclusion. The report illustrates that many factors are concentrated in the Valleys, but also shows social exclusion in other parts of the country in pockets of urban deprivation. The figures show that 10 per cent of adults in Wales reported being ...
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MPs back new personality disorder plans
Controversial proposals to detain 'dangerous people with severe personality disorder' have received tentative support from the Commons home affairs committee.
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Back to square one
Children from Our Lady 's School in Camden, north London, learn how to avoid food poisoning with a giant board game called 'Bubbles and Slime'.