All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-05-25
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
£320m hospital scheme stalls over bed cuts
One of the largest hospital building schemes in the NHS appears to have stalled amid concerns over bed numbers.
-
News
Troubleshooter blasts HA for failure to tackle £20m deficit
A damning report on West Sussex health authority says it has failed to provide strategic leadership or implement the government's modernisation agenda.
-
News
CHI boosts communications for abuse investigation
Further details have been issued of the Commission for Health Improvement's investigation of North Lakeland Healthcare trust, ordered by health secretary Alan Milburn in the wake of a report detailing abuse of elderly patients with mental health problems. A five-strong team has been appointed and CHI has announced it intends ...
-
News
Trust's sick-leave memo leads to accusations of 'bullying tactics'
A trust has sent memos to domestic staff and porters about the 'cost to the department' of taking as little as one day's sick leave, leading to accusations that it is victimising some of its lowest paid staff.
-
News
Religious conversion aids A&E
A chapel is being converted into a minor injuries unit at Worcester Royal Infirmary to relieve pressure on the accident and emergency department.
-
News
Scrutinised ambulance trust now meeting targets
East Anglian Ambulance trust, which was the subject of a regional office inquiry last March amid public concern about its performance, is now meeting national response times. The trust reached the scene of 96.4 per cent of emergencies within 19 minutes and 51.2 per cent within eight minutes last month. ...
-
News
Milburn finds right answer - to the wrong question
Health secretary must realise number of people waiting is not the issue
-
News
Public sector chiefs unite on anti-fraud measures
A public service forum to combat fraud has been launched by the Institute of Public Finance, the commercial arm of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. The Better Governance and Counter-Fraud Forum aims to bring together chief executives from local government, the health service, housing and police services ...
-
News
Councils appeal over mental health services bill
Four councils barred by the High Court from charging mental health patients for after-care services have appealed against the ruling this week.
-
News
More autonomy for managers: Milburn
The NHS Executive's role will shift from performance management to change management after the launch of the 'national plan' in July, health secretary Alan Milburn has told HSJ .
-
News
DoH awaits cost of Euro court's landmark ruling over pensions
The government has been struggling this week to assess the cost to the NHS of a landmark European Court ruling on pension rights.
-
News
Government may press on with a 'closer-to-home' beds strategy
The government looks set to push a long-term strategy to expand 'closer to-home' intermediate care services - despite a lack of evidence about whether such schemes actually work.
-
News
Bevan can wait
The father of the NHS, Nye Bevan, was against hospitals relying on private charity - so what would he have thought of an attempt in the 21st century to build a children's hospital by public subscription? Tash Shifrin examines the scheme
-
News
Blow to hospital's 'radical redesign'
The £4.2m 're-engineering' of Leicester Royal Infirmary failed to transform the hospital 'to the extent and at the pace' intended, according to a report from Sheffield University and Warwick Business School.
-
News
In brief: Extra-contractual referrals
Despite the government's promise to crack down on extra-contractual referrals, numbers of out-of-area treatments in the first two years of the Labour government have been as high as they were during the Conservatives' internal market. Of all hospital treatments in 1998, referrals out of health authority area accounted for 23 ...
-
News
In brief: NHS
The NHS in England spent £314m on non-NHS contractor-provided domestic, hotel, cleaning, laundry and cleaning equipment services in 1988-89.
-
News
In brief: Cosmetic plastic surgeons
Cosmetic plastic surgeons acting in the private sector should be made financially responsible for 'botched' operations, said Ann Clywd, Labour MP for Cynon Valley. As a campaigner against poor standards in the private cosmetic industry, she called for tighter regulation, including peer review of surgeons and independent sources of information ...