All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-06-15 – Page 2

  • News

    Managers under fire in regulation debate

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Managers have came under fire from both sides in a debate on the future of professional self-regulation for failing to deal with incompetent or improperly behaved health professionals.

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    Dear Mel. . .

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Our trust is having merger talks with Tesco. Hospital employees will get bonus Club Card points, but I think patients should as well. Do you agree?

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    Days like this

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Consultants hit out at reforms. . . junior doctors press for strike action. . . focus on London co-ordination. . . accountants steer clear of NHS

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    Wales told fresh targets must be met with current funding

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    The Welsh health service has been set stringent targets on waiting-list reduction which health and social services secretary Jane Hutt insists can be met with a £40m allocation made in May.

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    Cooper throws a fit - on scrip

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced plans to expand exercise on prescription schemes.

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    Fears that new top job signals tighter control

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Managers fear that health secretary Alan Milburn's decision to combine the top jobs at the NHS Executive and Department of Health signals a further tightening of control, ending the arm's-length role of the Executive.

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    Confederation is meeting devolution head-on

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Complaints flourish when communication fails

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Clwyd gives vent to private fury over shamed medics

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    I tend to be wary of public persecution of named individuals, even by politicians (or journalists) I respect. The righteous zeal of the animal rights lobby, for instance, often smacks of the hunt in full pursuit of the fox, as we are finding again this week.

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    Hospitals for people with learning disabilities to close

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Scotland is to close all of its remaining hospitals for people with learning disabilities within five years and place individuals in the community. Responding to a learning disabilities review published last month, deputy community care minister Iain Gray explained: 'The main finding was that people with learning disabilities should be ...

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    Survey GPs positive on clinical governance

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    List-scandal deputy chief resigns

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Plymouth Hospitals trust has accepted the resignation of deputy chief executive Martin Cusack with immediate effect.

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    Checkmate for 'king' consultants

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Clinical governance is working and managers are feeling the load

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    Children's education prospects hit by caring roles

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report coinciding with national carers week says that children and young people who care for chronically sick and disabled parents can experience long-term problems in their own lives because of missed schooling and lack of qualifications. Interviews with 60 young carers by Loughborough University found that ...

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    In brief: NHS chief executives

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    Almost 80 per cent of NHS chief executives believe there is a potential conflict of interest between consultants' NHS work and their private practice, according to a Consumers' Association poll. The survey has been submitted to the Commons health select committee's inquiry on consultants' contracts, which starts taking evidence today.

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    In brief: King's Mill Centre for Health Care Services trust

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    An independent inquiry into allegations that human organs were inappropriately d isposed of at King's Mill Centre for Health Care Services trust has been ordered by Dr Lindsey Davies, regional director of public health for Trent, following instructions from health secretary Alan Milburn. It will be led by Barrie Atkinson, ...

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    In brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has worked w ith an adv isor y body of patient, carer and user groups to produce a document on how to prepare submissions for NICE.

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    In brief: NHS organisations

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    NHS organisations were instructed to hold managers' pay rises overall to 3.2 per cent last year, not 2.7 per cent as reported on 1 June (news, p6).The error was HSJ's.

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    In brief: Magazine of the year

    2000-06-15T00:00:00Z

    HSJ has been named magazine of the year in Emap Communications' annual awards. A team of external judges said it had had 'an extraordinary year' and had 'cemented its position' as the leading magazine for healthcare managers. Runners-up were Local Government Chronicle and New Civil Engineer.