All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-05-25 – Page 2
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HAZy days
Those who have ever wondered exactly what health action zones do will get plenty of answers on Merseyside. Projects - ranging from a 'feel good factory' to roofing in alleyways - are up and running there with the aim of helping people feel better and healthier. The zone, the largest ...
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The cost of equality
The Department of Health guidance spells out the extent to which organisations are expected to invest resources to adjust workplace and employment arrangements: 'to spend at least as much on making a replacement as what would be needed to recruit and train a replacement'. It also lists practical ways to ...
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We have turned corner on deficits, says Wales director
The director of the NHS in Wales has told HSJ he has 'very mixed feelings' about leaving the health service.
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The Commons touch
Up and down the country, citizens of the nation have been invited to speak their hearts and minds on the great national plan for health. Kaye McIntosh lends an ear
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Mothers' care labouring under delusions
One of the doughtiest and most paradoxical champions of the NHS in the House of Commons recently returned to the subject of one of his greatest triumphs - maternity care - to lament with typical directness what he sees as its decline.
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Hutton moves on home care costs
The government is to issue statutory guidance to eliminate 'huge variations' in charges for home care services, health minister John Hutton has announced.
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Cancer drugs probe 'should take only months'
NHS cancer 'czar' Mike Richards has told MPs he expects 'around a dozen' licensed cancer drugs currently prescribed by some health authorities to be formally assessed 'in the next few months'.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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In brief: Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing has agreed in principle to extend membership to trained healthcare assistants and new types of nursing trainees, including cadets. A final decision will be made at its annual general meeting.
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In brief: NHS Confederation
The NHS Confederation has appointed Melissa Robinson as London relations manager, to develop links with the mayor and Greater London Assembly. She joins from GJW Government Relations, a political consultancy. She previously worked for the Labour Party press office, the Fabian Society, and the then shadow chancellor Gordon Brown.
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In brief: Gisela Stuart
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has announced that £5m will be spent developing digital TV pilots to give patients 'easier and faster access at home to health advice and information'.
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In brief: Lothian University Hospitals trust
Lothian University Hospitals trust has put part of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh's site on the international property market.
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In brief: General Social Care Council for England
The government has postponed the start date for the General Social Care Council for England. It will now start work in October 2001, rather than April. Health minister John Hutton said this was to make sure the 'necessary groundwork' was in place.
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In brief: New Opportunities Fund
The New Opportunities Fund is giving a £1m grant to Bromley-by-Bow healthy living centre to provide additional facilities including exercise groups, singing for asthma, arts and health activities such as silk painting, a new food co-op and allotments.
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In brief: North East Lincolnshire primary care trust
Newly formed North East Lincolnshire primary care trust has set up a residents panel with advice from local councils, police and voluntary groups to give the public a say in developing health services.
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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.
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