All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-03-30 – Page 3
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Who wants to be a billionaire?
The NHS has been given extra funding beyond its wildest dreams, but how will it be used to force through New Labour's modernisation crusade? Lyn Whitfield investigates
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Barrier grief
PCTs have ambitions to achieve a wholesale shift in resources to primary care. But how will they succeed where health authorities have failed? The obstacles to change should not be underestimated, argues Nigel Edwards
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Power to ban doctors for life moves closer
Life bans for criminal or bad doctors came a step closer last week with a government consultation document proposing a radical shake-up of the way the General Medical Council works.
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Hospital dumped baby's organs
Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool threw away the organs of a baby that were due to be returned to his parents for burial after a 'difference of opinion' between two staff members, a report has found.
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Left holding the baby
Boadcaster Michael Palin meets Kirsty Thew and her daughter at the Sheffield hospital where he had his tonsils removed, and admires a new wall painting in the neonatal ward.Mr Palin was visit ing Sheff ield Children's Hospital to unveil the painting, commissioned in an arts for health programme funded by ...
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Audit report hits out at equipment supplies' 'recipe for inefficiency'
The organisation of equipment services for elderly and disabled people is 'a recipe for inequality and inefficiency', the Audit Commission has found.
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In Brief: The NHS has 'an astonishing lack of understanding of multiple sclerosis'
The NHS has 'an astonishing lack of understanding of multiple sclerosis', said Paul Burstow, Liberal Democrat MP for Sutton and Cheam.MS patients are dealt with in a 'very disorganised and unsystematic way', he said in an adjournment debate.He called for a well-planned and properly delivered service.
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Appointments
Chris Town has been appointed chief executive of North Peterborough primary care trust. He currently fills the same post in North Peterborough pr imar y care group, and was previously director of primary and community care at North West Anglia health authority.
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In Brief: British Medical Association's annual medical students committee conference
Medical students at the British Medical Association's annual medical students committee conference have called for doctors and other health professionals to be subject to random alcohol and drug testing to improve patient confidence in the profession.
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Question mark over NI allocation
Northern Ireland will receive £53m as its share of the £2bn extra cash for the NHS - but how it will be allocated remains unknown.
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In Brief: The Royal College of Nursing issues helath agenda
The Royal College of Nursing has issued its health agenda for London's mayoral candidates, calling on them to create a public health officer for the capital, carry out policy health impact assessments, improve primary care and tackle issues such as pollution.
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Anger at surgeon shortage after five-day refusal of donor kidneys
Kidney experts have accused the government of making 'no tangible response' to a serious shortage of transplant surgeons that contributed to a five-day suspension of operations at University Hospital of Wales last week.
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In Brief: MSF and AEEU announce merger plans
The MSF and AEEU unions have announced merger plans.The 'new union' project will be discussed at MSF's conference in May, after which there will be a ballot of members.
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