All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-07-06 – Page 2
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Why some sacred cows are worth milking
Your editorial (comment, page 19, 22 June) is right to point out that the NHS's founding principles are not simply the sacred cows of an outdated ideology but an essential means of providing efficient and equitable healthcare.
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Crash course in walls
Survival of the fittest is a principle which has passed the test of time. It is therefore a mystery to me why, when it comes to information technology, the NHS Executive bureaucracy fights against it when the dire consequences of doing so are clear to see.
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Consulting room
The government's consultation exercise on the NHS national plan came under heavy fire from the media. But its critics have missed the point of the exercise, says Shirley McIver
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'We need to explain the uncertainty of medicine': the ethics of patient consent
This year's ethics debate centred on issues of patient consent . Dr Michael Wilks, chair of the BMA's ethics committee, said much of the onslaught against doctors over the past year stemmed from poor communication with patients, the public and the government.
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Local health groups 'need clear direction'
Enthusiasm for Wales' local health groups could wane unless they are given more powers and a clear sense of direction, the Audit Commission has warned.
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Commissioner to cover new-look children's services
Wales will have a children's commissioner to cover children in care services regulated by the Care Standards Bill, which is now passing through Parliament. The government agreed to table an amendment to the bill to create a commissioner as UK ministers and the Welsh Assembly published their responses to the ...
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Policy chief takes over as chair
A change at the top of the NHS Confederation has seen Dianne Jeffrey take over as chair. Ms Jeffrey, chair of Community Health Service North Derbyshire trust, has taken over from Catherine McLoughlin, who led the organisation for three years.
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Tayside chair is latest to quit in wake of damning report
Tayside health board chair Frances Havenga has become the latest senior manager to leave her post following a damning report into debt-laden Tayside University Hospitals trust.
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Warning over increased centralisation
King's Fund policy analyst Dr Jennifer Dixon told a fringe meeting that the national plan was likely to impose 'yet more central direction on the health service'. Managers and professionals needed 'time, space and trust' to develop new ideas. 'They need to focus on developing the services that people actually ...
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Langlands hints at extra cash for the elderly
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands hinted strongly that local authorities would win significant funds for care of elderly people in the comprehensive spending review, due later this month.
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Managers slam 'poor' care
Health service managers have slammed the quality of patient care in their own hospitals. More than 37 per cent of those who voted at the NHS Confederation conference said their own experience as patients was 'poor' or 'very poor'.
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Local government will 'resist' integrated care
Local authorities have warned they will 'resist' health secretary Alan Milburn's plans to give the NHS the power to run social services.
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UK cancer survival statistics are 'misleading and demoralising'
Media scare stories about poor UK cancer survival rates are a myth created by differences in collecting statistics between countries, Dr Harry Burns, Glasgow's director of public health, told delegates.
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Lib Dems call for change on medical injury
The government got a partial vote of approval from Liberal Democrat health spokesman Nick Harvey, who told the NHS Confederation conference: 'I don't think they are going fast enough or making the progress they should.'
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Thoracic society hears call for 'tax on junk food'
Professor John Britton, a respiratory physician from Nottingham City Hospital, has called for children to be given free fruit at school to improve their lungs and general health at the summer meeting of the British Thoracic Society. He said the government should also consider levying a 'junk food tax' on ...
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HAZ programmes facing budget cuts
Funding for health action zones will rise by 37 per cent this year - but some local projects face budget cuts as the government directs cash at national priorities such as heart disease and cancer.
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Foster predicts one regulatory body
The plan could also see the emergence of a single professional regulatory body, confederation human resources policy director Andrew Foster told a conference seminar. He said a 'convergence' was likely, 'possibly to a single regulatory body, but certainly to a single process'.
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Patients set to take a third of seats on board overseeing national plan
The government was due yesterday to unveil its plans for an NHS modernisation board to oversee implementation of the national plan.
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Systems failures more to blame than people
May I correct one aspect of your news item on the recent King's Fund debate on the future of professional selfregulation (page 9, 15 June).
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A bit under the weather
It has been a terrible year for doctors, and they made their feelings all too clear at the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting. Lyn Whitfield had her finger on the pulse
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