All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-04-13 – Page 2

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    Events

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0207874 0254.

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    Easy self-Assembly?

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The UK's three devolved power bases have had up to 10 months to forge their own identities. Patrick Butler asks key players how they see their progress

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    HAs 'should be paid fully for drugs'

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Doctors have demanded that the government pay health authorities the full cost of introducing new drugs available on the NHS.

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    Don't get mugged in London

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Capital's managers need strategy to ensure harmony with the new mayor

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    Euro ruling will protect junior doctors - in nine years

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Junior doctors are to be brought under the provisions of the European working-time directive - but the move will take at least nine years.

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    Days like this

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    'Threat' to community care. . . IHSM hits out. . . Sop to royal colleges. . . Fundholding warning. . . Dental deal. . . £600,000 from RHA's private suite

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    The government is spinning out of control

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

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    Workforce plans see managers in control

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Health managers are set to gain control of workforce planning under government proposals put out for consultation last week.

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    When push comes to shove

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    One in four women experience physical violence. Many turn to the NHS for help. But do healthcare professionals have the skills to cope? Barbara Millar reports

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    MrMop's clean conscience is symptomatic of the times

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Milburn's hygiene missive proves desperate need for managerial champions

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    CHI opts to investigate 'wrong-kidney' scandal

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The Commission for Health Improvement is to investigate the trust at the centre of a high-profile kidney surgery blunder just weeks after it said such a move was unlikely.

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    Three chairs for democracy

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    HSJ invited the four leading London mayoral hopefuls to debate health. Three couldn't stop agreeing with one another - but the fourth was a trifle late in putting his argument. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    The coffin they carry you off in

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Diane Charlton of the conservation workshop at Bradford Industrial Museum completes the restoration of a hand-drawn hearse that doubled as an ambulance when the glass top was removed. The vehicle was built in 1908 and used in the Yorkshire Dales village of Burneston.

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    Carlisle's problems are not unique to PFI

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

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    In brief: Pharmaceutical industry

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A taskforce to investigate how to maintain the competitiveness of the UK as a base for the pharmaceutical industry has been announced, chaired by junior health minister Lord Hunt and Dr Tom McKilop, chief executive of AstraZeneca. The taskforce will report to the prime minister.

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    In brief: Performance management framework

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A new performance management framework for the NHS in Wales has been published. Deputy health and social services secretary Alun Pugh said this fulfilled 'a key pledge' in the Putting Patients First white paper.

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    In brief: Dyfed Powys

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A clinical futures group has been set up in Dyfed Powys, chaired by former trust chief executive Dr Norman Mills, to review clinical services and draw up options for change to be implemented in 2000-01.

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    In brief: Lord Hunt

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced the publication of guidance by the Hospital Caterers Association and NHS Estates on reducing the estimated £45m of food wasted annually in the NHS.

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    Trusts braced for surge in injury claims

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    This month sees big changes in the funding of personal injury litigation.