All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-23 – Page 3

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    Health minister launches trust's anti-violence policy

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    An anti-violence policy has been launched by junior health minister Gisela Stuart at Sandwell Healthcare trust, where 38 per cent of staff have been subjected to violence or aggression at work in the past 12 months. The policy, which is part of the government's zero-tolerance zone campaign, includes training for ...

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    In brief: London Ambulance Service

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    London Ambulance Service trust has started two pilots for dispatching alternative response vehicles to routine maternity calls and non-urgent alarm-line calls. It receives 2,300 assistance-only and 7,800 routine maternity calls across London every year.

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    What happened at Alder Hey?

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Alder Hey has the biggest collection - over 2,000 - of paediatric hearts in the country, amassed over 50 years.

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    CHC aids campaigners in banned petition row

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Leicester community health council has joined the ongoing row over a 150,000-name petition protesting at plans to shake up services at the city's three major hospitals.

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    IT strategy defended after 'hiccup'

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The billion-pound NHS IT strategy has been vigorously defended against accusations that it is failing to deliver results.

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    Confidentiality body to advise Caldicott 'guardians'

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    A National Confidentiality and Security Advisory Body will be established to provide advice to local 'guardians' of patient confidentiality - appointed in the wake of the Caldicott report - and promote best practice on the confidentiality of patient information. It will also advise ministers and NHS bodies on a wide ...

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    A patient address on code-breaking and LSD

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    I was surfing the web at my own sedate pace in search of wisdom about the beta interferon debate when the newspapers hit the mat on Monday morning. Usually I take their front pages in my stride.

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    Parents seek 'accountability' over Alder Hey organ scandal

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Furious parents are demanding further action at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after the chair was asked to leave last week.

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    Sackings sparked by 'abuse' review

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    An external review of North Lakeland Healthcare trust has led to the sacking of its chair and the suspension of a number of senior managers.

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    365 daze

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    A survey of 12 primarycare groups in their first year found them more concerned with tackling basic operational issues than moving to trust status. Emma Regen and colleagues report

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    Campaign seeks to recruit 300 drugs counsellors

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The government has launched a national advertising campaign to recruit an additional 300 drugs counsellors as part of its 10-year strategy, Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain . The two-week campaign will aim to recruit workers for the prison, probation and police services, voluntary sector and local authorities. The ...

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    'Urgent' action demand by NAO as Welsh deficit reaches £80m

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The financial performance of the NHS in Wales is continuing to deteriorate, with its underlying cumulative deficit set to rise to £80m by the end of the current financial year, according to the National Audit Office.

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    New improved: 136-year tradition ends

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The 444-bed Cumberland Infirmary is expected to be completed on 1 April, just over two years after work began and around six weeks ahead of schedule. It will end a 136-year tradition of health services on the Carlisle General site.

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    Helpline given £1m to expand

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced a £1m expansion of the mental health work of NHS Direct.

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    That was then. . .

    2000-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The evolution of British general practice 18501948 By Anne Digby Oxford University Press 376 pages £48