All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-04-06 – Page 3

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    Hutton promises boost in equipment standards

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Health minister John Hutton has responded to last week's Audit Commission report on equipment services by promising that standards will be 'driven up' and highlighting investment already promised for hearing aid and wheelchair services. NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton said managers wanted to end the 'postcode lottery of care'. ...

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    Blair invited to surgery

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Prime minister Tony Blair and health secretary Alan Milburn have been invited to spend a day in a GP's surgery by Dr Michael Dixon, a Devon doctor and chair of the NHS Alliance.

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    Birmingham set to host defence medicine centre

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Defence minister John Spellar and junior health minister Gisela Stuart have signed an agreement to create a centre for defence medicine at University Hospital Birmingham trust, which should open in April next year. The centre replaces the last remaining forces hospital in the UK, at Gosport in Hampshire, and will ...

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    Giving a big OK to R&D

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Change-promoting research for health services A guide for resource managers, research and development commissioners and researchers By Selwyn St Leger and Jo Walsworth-Bell Open University Press 236 pages £22.50

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    'Six months to avert crisis' claim

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    The government has just six months 'to save the NHS', Christine Hancock, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, announced this week.

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    Question of attitude

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    How much do corporate culture and staff attitudes change when trusts merge? One trust surveyed staff before and after the process to find out. Louise Wallace and colleagues report

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    Leading analyst dubs Labour health policies 'boring'

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    The government's healthcare policies have so far proved 'terribly boring' compared with the sort of initiative that might be expected in a second term, a leading policy analyst claimed this week. Speaking at the launch of King's College London's institute for applied health and social policy, Dr Perri 6, former ...

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    High ambition

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    student nurse Sarah Roles peers down on the Houses of Parliament from the London Eye, before joining colleagues to lobby MPs for better pay. The lobby is part of a Unison campaign to restore salary and employee status to boost students' income.

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    Strung along

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    The government's presentational handling of massive extra cash for the NHS has engendered wariness - and weariness - about its real intentions. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    Welsh review group examines allocation

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    The Welsh Assembly has brought forward a review of the funding allocation system for the NHS in Wales, and appointed an independent review group chair.

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    in brief: Alan Milburn

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn is wrong to distrust health authorities with modernisistion money, according to health service insiders. In a lift to HAs, 58 per cent of visitors to HSJ's website who voted on the question of the week did not back Mr Milburn. Forty-two per cent supported his stance.

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    New coalition aiming to build on strategy for London

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    A Coalition for Health and Regeneration in London has been launched 'to ensure that improving the health of Londoners is on everyone's agenda across the capital'. It brings together a wide range of organisations, including the King's Fund, London regional office and the Government Office for London to create an ...

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    Modernisation team will address sex inequalities

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced that the prevention and inequalities modernisation action team will look at ways of reducing 'the health inequalities which exist between men and women'. At a men's health conference in Birmingham, she also said the new Health Development Agency would look at what measures ...

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    Crisis talks as CHI moves in on Lakeland for abuse probe

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    A government hit-squad has held a crisis meeting with managers at a trust stung by revelations of horrifying abuse of elderly mentally ill patients.

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    Plain thinking about plain words

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    Ideas, no matter how complex, are best expressed simply

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    NAO forecasts in-year overspend of £200m

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    The NHS is facing a £200m in-year overspend for the financial year just ended, the National Audit Office forecast this week.

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    Chief executive to step down with £4.2m deficit uncleared

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    West Sussex health authority's controversial chief executive Peter Catchpole is to leave for a new career, having failed to clear the HA's historic deficit.

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    Three-year jail term for £400,000 betting spree

    2000-04-06T00:00:00Z

    An NHS manager who gambled over £400,000 of social security payments in betting sprees was jailed this week.