All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-06-15 – Page 2
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In brief: National Institute for Clinical Excellence
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
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
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.
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Children's education prospects hit by caring roles
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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Checkmate for 'king' consultants
Clinical governance is working and managers are feeling the load
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List-scandal deputy chief resigns
Plymouth Hospitals trust has accepted the resignation of deputy chief executive Martin Cusack with immediate effect.
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Hospitals for people with learning disabilities to close
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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Clwyd gives vent to private fury over shamed medics
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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Fears that new top job signals tighter control
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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Cooper throws a fit - on scrip
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced plans to expand exercise on prescription schemes.
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Wales told fresh targets must be met with current funding
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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Days like this
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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Dear Mel. . .
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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Managers under fire in regulation debate
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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Double trouble: this week's role of shame
The Commission for Health Improvement has been called in to investigate four trusts which employed a locum pathologist who misdiagnosed more than 200 cancer patients.
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Early-warning plan will target failures
An early-warning system to deal with all clinical mistakes in the NHS will be set up by the end of the year.
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