All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-04-13 – Page 3

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    Over our dead body

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The demise of the Clinical Standards Advisory Group begs questions of how different its successor's approach will be. Lynn Eaton reports

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    MPs turn tables on Fritchie over bias claims

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The row over political bias in the appointment of non-executive directors to trust and health authority boards flared up again this week, with an attack on commissioner for public appointments Dame Rennie Fritchie.

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    Behind closed doors

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The selection process for non-executives can be far from fair - and it is easy for the outspoken to find their applications unsuccessful, Madhun Foolchand found

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    When trust becomes a must

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    One of the most annoying precepts that gets bandied about in the partnership debate is the need to form 'trusting relationships'. Unlike some of the more tangible aspects of joint working, such as new structures and strategic statements, trust is elusive both as a concept and a working tool. So, ...

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    Bad relations 'put city HAZ at threat'

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    An independent review has found that Leicestershire health authority's relationship with Leicester's social services department was so poor that the city's health action zone risked going 'completely off the rails'.

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    In brief: Health Education Authority

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Members of the former Health Education Authority's mental health programme have set up a new organisation to support the promotion of mental health. Mentality will seek to help health authorities meet standard one of the national service framework, requiring them to promote mental health and combat discrimination.

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    Overdose attack man sent to jail

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A drug overdose victim who lashed out at hospital staff who had just saved his life has been jailed for a year.

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    In brief: British Medical Association

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association in Northern Ireland has called for an end to 'healthcare policy inertia', with vice-chair of the BMA's consultants and specialists commitee Kanwar Panesar claiming the province was 'almost three years behind the rest of the UK in terms of health service reforms' - a situation that ...

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    MP appeals to government over free nursing care

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow has urged the government to introduce free nursing care for all, following a hint by health secretary Alan Milburn to the Royal College of Nursing's annual congress that the government may be considering such a move. 'It is now three years since the government promised ...

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    In brief: Employment Appeal Tribunal

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A race, sex or disability discrimination claim can go ahead after the applicant's death, the Court of Appeal has ruled, reversing a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The ruling allows the daughter of a secretary who brought a race discrimination claim against Lewisham and Guy's Mental Health trust to ...

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    Anti-abortion group pickets family planning centres

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Anti-abortion group Precious Life has committed itself to picketing four new family planning centres funded by the Scottish Executive. Scottish health minister Susan Deacon announced that £150,000 would be provided to Brook Advisory Group for new centres in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Stirling. Jim Dowson, Precious Life spokesman, described the ...

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    Disabled given priority on work alternatives

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Employees who become disabled and can no longer do their job must be given priority for any alternative vacancies that arise, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.

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    Fox's brush with bright ideas lights the way ahead

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Frank Field wasn't the only politician casting around for new ideas to help the NHS this week. Though less exotic than Mr Field's suggestion that patients be sent to India or China for treatment, Dr Liam Fox is halfway through some basic rethinking, too.

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    Government has 'ducked' thorny issues in Mental Health Act plans

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The expert committee charged with advising the government on reform of the Mental Health Act has attacked its green paper for 'ducking some fundamental questions' to chase a tabloid agenda on public safety.

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    Action team members deny PR accusations

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Senior managers appointed to the government's NHS modernisation action teams have dismissed suggestions that consultation on 'a national plan for health' is an exercise in public relations.

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    Reform association issues advice on better access

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The Abortion Law Reform Association has issued a guide for commissioners on improving access to abortion and urged them to look for ways of improving services to match standards issued by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists at the end of March. President Baroness Lockwood said: 'More than 30 ...

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    NICE makes 10-year ruling on hips

    2000-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued guidance on hip replacements, recommending that artificial joints should last at least 10 years in 90 per cent of cases.