All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-05-11 – Page 3

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    In Brief: New PCTs

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Three primary care groups in Blackburn, Trafford South and Herefordshire will become primary care trusts in October, junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced. Two PCTs for West Norfolk and Hertsmere have already been given the go ahead.

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    In Brief: Two trusts in Lincolnshire merger plans

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Two trusts in Lincolnshire have been given permission to launch public consultation on merger plans. Lincoln District Healthcare trust and South Lincolnshire Healthcare trust aim to create a single organisation providing mental health, learning disability and community services next April.

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    In Brief: Recruitment figures

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Health minister John Denham has announced that almost 3,700 doctors were recruited by the NHS between 1997 and 1999.He said this showed the government was 'making progress' on its plans to employ 7,000 more doctors and 15,000 more nurses.

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    In Brief: Correction

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Several references to 'CHI' in Marion Witton's letter (page 21, 4 May), responding to our feature 'Shadowlands', should have been to the National Care Standards Commission. We apologise for the error, which occurred during editing.

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    In Brief: Correction

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Last week's feature on orthopaedic surgeons ('Blade runners', pages 20-23) referred to a British Orthopaedic Association study of 250 consultants' operating patterns. The study was in fact by John Yates and colleagues at the health services management centre, Birmingham University.

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    Deacon blues

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish health minister insists that managers committed to improving patient care have nothing to fear from the 'strings attached' to additional NHS money from government. Colin Wright explains

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    Short Cuts: Cockroaches force hospital to close beds

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    A cockroach infestation has forced a hospital to close 20 beds for five days. St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight has booked 12 beds for elective surgery at a nearby private hospital because of the infestation. Closure of a medical ward will allow pest controllers access to 'below ...

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    Beds under the Reds

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Labour has crossed the ideological divide to embrace joint working with the private sector as a way to free NHS beds. Kaye McIntosh reports

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    Grin and bear it

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn at St Thomas' Hospital in London for one of the eight simultaneous launches of the government's consultation with staff and patients on modernising the NHS.

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    In Brief: Beacon status

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Beacon status is to be extended to a range of services, including accident and emergency departments, this year, health secretary Alan Milburn has announced.

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    In Brief: Call for baby walkers to be banned

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists has called for baby walkers to be banned at its annual conference, arguing they can restrict babies' development and lead to 4,000 injuries every year.

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    Left holding the babies

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Cathryn Leadstone, a pupil at Ormesby comprehensive school in Middlesbrough, with a pile of interactive dolls bought with funds from Teesside health action zone.

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    Delays in HIV funding attacked

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    The government has come under fire over delays dogging both this year's funding and the national strategy for HIV and AIDS, promised three years ago.

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    Mirror in mole appeal

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Privacy and open justice clashed in the whistleblower case (above), and open justice won.

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    In Brief: The Employment Appeal Tribunal

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Employment tribunals can be dangerous places. The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee alleging race discrimination could launch a new claim of victimisation based on evidence the employers gave at the tribunal hearing the race claim.

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    In Brief: Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill ran out of time for debate and will not now become law. The bill would have prevented doctors withholding nutrition and hydration in cases where patients are not dying - like that of the Hillsborough disaster victim Tony Bland, who spent years ...

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    A credit to us all

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Recruiting clinical support workers eased the pressure on a trust's hardpressed junior doctors and solved its staffing problems, writes David Wright and colleagues

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    Poll victory for A&E campaigners

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Campaigners fighting to stop Kidderminster Hospital losing its accident and emergency department have scored a dramatic victory in the Wyre Forest district council elections, held on 4 May.

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    Compulsory prescribing adds to bureaucracy

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

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