All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-23 – Page 2
-
News
Commission impossible
Yet another significant NHS date is looming. On 1 April the first primary care trusts will go live, many combining the responsibility of commissioning around 80 per cent of the local NHS budget with delivering a range of community services.
-
News
Dead reckoning: what the Royal College of Pathologists recommends
Medical schools and hospitals must provide training for medical and other appropriate personnel in requesting and obtaining agreement for post-mortems. Anyone seeking agreement for a post-mortem must first liaise with the pathologist to determine the necessity of, and grounds for, retaining tissue so that relatives can make informed decisions. Hospital ...
-
News
'Ethically wrong' to shift cigarette duties to NHS
Public health experts have condemned chancellor Gordon Brown's move to divert money from cigarette duties directly to the NHS as 'ethically wrong'.
-
News
Childbearing witness
Race and childbirth By Savita Katbamna Open University Press 157 pages £18. 99 paperback
-
News
Head-banging tendency can't stop march of time
GPs must face up to difficulties and opportunities posed by New NHS
-
News
'The bucket has too many holes'
Nick Bosanquet, professor of health policy at Imperial College London, said: 'The Treasury seems to have forgotten the key lesson across all parties of the past 15 years - you cannot quick-fix the NHS by throwing money at it. The NHS bucket has too many holes at the bottom. '
-
News
In brief: London regional office
London regional office has set up a 'top to toe' review of emergency services and hospital critical care. Philip Brown, who coordinated millennium and winter planning, has been appointed to head the London emergency care project, which should start work in the next four weeks.
-
News
In brief: Unison
Unison has called for London mayoral candidates to pledge themselves to its own 'manifesto' for public services in the capital.
-
News
In brief: Hospital chaplains
Hospital chaplains have rejected a three-year pay offer, with a 3. 25 per cent rise this year.
-
News
In brief: Health service managers
Health service managers overwhelmingly back the idea of ending family doctors' independent contractor status, according to an HSJ website poll. By Tuesday lunchtime readers had voted 328 to 28 in favour of making NHS GPs salaried employees.
-
News
Fritchie calls for an end to local nominees on boards
Commissioner for public appointments Dame Rennie Fritchie has called for an end to local authority nominations for NHS chair and nonexecutive posts.
-
News
BMA hopeful of settlement to out-of-hours dispute
A resolution may be in sight to the long-running dispute between the government and junior doctors over payments for out-of-hours work. The British Medical Association's junior doctors committee has said a new deal negotiated with the Department of Health has 'sufficient merit' to be put to a referendum after a ...
-
News
Birmingham HA chair opts to move closer to home
Bryan Stoten, the long-serving chair of Birmingham health authority, will take over as chair of Warwickshire HA on 1 April. Mr Stoten recently announced his intention to stand down from his present post, citing the government's stipulation that non-executives should live in the area served by their organisation. He has ...
-
News
Budget's billions will push modernisation
Prime minister Tony Blair was yesterday due to announce a 'step change' in the government's modernisation of the NHS in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's decision to invest billions of pounds in the service.
-
News
Wanted: feet to fill big shoes
Any structural shake-ups following Sir Alan Langlands' departure must get to grips with how the centre relates to local service providers, writes Stephen Thornton
-
News
Budget beyond wildest dreams
Chancellor leaves pundits gasping with huge vote of confidence in NHS
-
News
Grin and bear it
The prime minister was kept on his mettle when he appeared - on a giant screen - to reassure a GPs' conference. Kaye McIntosh was there
-
News
In brief: NHS Information Authority
The NHS Information Authority has launched a service to help NHS-registered organisations to obtain patients' NHS numbers and administrative details. The first phase of the NHS Strategic Tracing Service builds on the existing Initial Tracing Service.
-
News
'No strings attached' funding plea
Health service managers issued a last minute pre-Budget plea to a government 'hooked on targets' to inject the NHS with 'cash without strings'.
- Previous Page
- Page1
- Page2
- Page3
- Next Page