All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-05-18 – Page 3

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    Held back by woeful lack of resources

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Ethnic babies' death risk doubled

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Babies born in the UK to mothers originally from Pakistan or the Caribbean are twice as likely to die in infancy as babies whose mothers were born here, according to the latest report from the Office for National Statistics.

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    Confederation should be less 'Anglo-centric'

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Devolution has prompted the NHS Confederation to consider developing a separate Scottish organisation.

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    Best practice group will aid development of co-operatives

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Susan Deacon is seeking to kick-start the continuing development of local health care cooperatives with a new group to spread best practice.

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    Manager's departure adds to uncertainty

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The departure of another senior Scottish manager has been announced.

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    Survey will seek to address NHS discrimination against disabled

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    An NHS drive to increase the number of staff with disabilities will include a national survey to establish the extent of discrimination at board level.

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    Move to strip out acute services early

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Worcester Acute Hospitals trust has moved to strip Kidderminster General Hospital of its acute inpatient services up to two years earlier than planned in an apparent bid to outfox campaigners opposed to the move.

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    Short Cuts: London action team to review emergency services

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    London regional office has announced the membership of an action team set up to review emergency services across the capital.Philip Brown, director of information development, who led preparations for last winter in the capital, is heading the project, which also includes clinicians, trust and health authority chief executives and managers, ...

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    Absolutely fabulous

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The New Health Network, set up to champion change by enthusing NHS staff, now has a chief executive who oozes enthusiasm and wants others to be as ecstatic.Lyn Whitfield reports

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    Read all about it

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Peter Mount, chair of Salford Royal Hospitals trust (right), examines a 110year-old newspaper with Bernard O'Sullivan, managing director of E&C UK, a construction company.The newspaper was one of three found with Salford council minutes and other documents in a time capsule unearthed during demolition work at Ladywell Hospital.The capsule contents ...

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    Short Cuts: Exercise-promotion scheme receives £6.4m grant

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The New Opportunities Fund has announced a £6.4m grant to encourage more people to walk, combating inactivity and ill-health.The award to the Countryside Agency and the British Heart Foundation will support 200 'walking the way for health schemes' to be launched in September.These will be conducted walks of about two ...

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    Short Cuts: PFI project signing ensures £66m hospital for Wales

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The largest private finance initiative project in Wales has been signed and sealed, Bro Morgannwg trust has announced.The trust admits that managers and developer Baglan Moor Healthcare plc 'toiled through the night' last week to ensure the £66m needed for the hospital for Neath and Port Talbot could be raised ...

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    In Brief: £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced a £1m grant to improve play facilities in Wales and undertake a review of children's play. She said the money would particularly help children in deprived areas.

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    Short Cuts: Heat and power plant saves trust £780,000 a year

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Free Hampstead trust is saving £780,000 a year with a combined heat and power plant that allows 70 per cent of fuel to be conver ted into energy. The trust says 27 per cent of fuel is conver ted into energy in a conventional power station. Some of ...