All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-06-22 – Page 2
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Shock discovery on disused site
Blood samples, parts of ears and other clinical waste have been uncovered by demolition workers pulling down a disused hospital in Wales.
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View from the delegates
Scepticism about the government's Budget cash injection and worries about staffing levels were widespread, on and off the conference floor.
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Days like this
Paediatric practice warning. . .Lab staff 'deserting'. . .'Airline booking system'. . .No 10's reform fears. . .Dinner-cash dearth. . .Data doubts
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Jam three days running for disgruntled patient
A hospital is to review a newly introduced food distribution policy after a patient complained that she had to survive on jam sandwiches for three out of her four days in hospital.
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Data protection for managers
It is remarkable that managers in the NHS and the private sector do not know what their doctors are doing and that trust boards sail along in ignorance of consultant activity levels and the variations therein. How can health authorities and insurers manage these employees in a manner consistent with ...
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Cost-effective?
The Audit Commission says it was not possible to model all the alternative services with their different costs but that studies so far have produced 'encouraging results':
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GMC confirms need for doctor reforms
Plans to make doctors prove they are good at their jobs will be unveiled today by the embattled General Medical Council.
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NHS Wales HR strategy set to embrace common core training
The NHS in Wales is to push ahead with 'common core training' for health professionals - an idea still being debated by England's modernisation action teams.
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Clear-out of top managers
Scotland's chief medical officer, Sir David Carter, is to take up a senior post with a charity following his departure from the health service in September.
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UK's health system is one of the fairest in the world, WHO claims
The UK's health system emerges as one of the fairest in the world in the annual report of the World Health Organisation.
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Denham reveals CHI clampdown on infection rates
Health minister John Denham has said the Commission for Health Improvement and Audit Commission will have a legal right to demand information on hospital infection rates - and publish it. The move will be part of an attack on what Mr Denham called 'unacceptable variations' in infection rates between hospitals ...
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Heading for a change
The fourth article on the government's modernisation programme looks at the work of the professions modernisation action team. Its brief is 'to increase flexibility in training and working practices and remove demarcations, in the context of major expansion of the healthcare workforce'.
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CBE honour for CHI chief Homa
Former waiting-list buster and current director of the Commission for Health Improvement Dr Peter Homa has been made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday honours.
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Careers without tiers
A course that teaches nurses to do work normally carried out by surgeons has led to some graduates running their own day-case clinics. Jane Farrell reports
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Cancer money may be spread wider in future
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has said that NHS cancer research money may in future be spread wider than the big three cancer research centres.
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Calls for tougher restrictions on consultants' private undertakings
Consultants should not be allowed to undertake private practice unless they can show that none of their NHS patients are waiting more than three months for hospital treatment, the health select committee heard this week.
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Rapid rise in HIV diagnoses may lead to budget shortfall
Fears are growing that the budget for AIDS and HIV services in London will fall short by at least £5m this year, despite receiving a £21.7m uplift.
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Buddy byes
Actor Tony Robinson led a fulsome tribute to general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe, who is retiring at the end of the year.
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