All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-07-20
View all stories from this issue.
-
News
£1.3bn in free nursing may resolve cares aga
The government looks set to make its long-awaited response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care by replacing means testing with a £1.3bn package for free nursing in care homes for elderly people.
-
News
In brief: Volatile substance abuse
The annual number of deaths from volatile substance abuse has continued to fall, with a decrease from 74 to 70 deaths in 1998, according to a report from St George's Hospital medical school. The peak of 152 deaths associated with young people sniffing aerosols and glue was in 1990.
-
News
Tribunal told of alleged abuse at care home for elderly
Vulnerable elderly residents died after abuse at a care home run by independent provider BUPA, an industrial tribunal has been told. In a case brought under the new Public Interest Disclosure Act, former care worker Eileen Chubb claimed she was hounded out of her job after complaining about neglect and ...
-
News
New rights act will hit clinical negligence
Trusts are anxiously awaiting 2 October, implementation day for the Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into English law.
-
News
NHS can insist on advance payments from overseas patients
The NHS can charge in advance for treatment for overseas visitors, two judges have ruled in yet another judicial review.
-
News
Health 'ambassadors' to provide 'key messages'
The first 'health ambassadors' in the UK have been appointed by North Cumbria health authority in a drive to improve communications between doctors, nurses and the public. The HA and North Cumbria health action zone have approved 14 'ambassadors' from across the district. HA chair Barbara Cannon said the people ...
-
News
Ambulance chief delay 'mystery' shrugged off
London Ambulance Service has shrugged off accusations that there is anything 'mysterious' about its failure to replace former chief executive Michael Honey, who left in February.
-
News
'Crude' league tables 'fail to provide answers' say critics
A revised set of NHS 'league tables' was published this week amid warnings that they beg more questions than they answer.
-
News
In brief: UK Transplant Support Service Authority
The 1999 report from the UK Transplant Support Service Authority shows a continuing drop in cadaveric organ donation and a continuing rise in the number of patients awaiting organ transplants. The number of donors, 815, was the lowest since 1985, while the number of transplants fell by 1 per cent.
-
News
Nurses to ballot over on-call pay
Managers at a landmark private finance initiative scheme in Carlisle are facing industrial action from staff in three departments.
-
News
Paddington plans laid bare
An ambitious scheme to transform heart and lung services at one site in west London will shake up hospitals in the capital. Laura Donnelly reports
-
News
Beds guarantee ends decades of wrangling over flagship PFI site
The long-awaited redevelopment of University College London Hospitals trust has at last been given the go ahead, following years of political wrangling and industrial action.
-
News
Brown promises 'major' cash boost for elderly people in national plan
Chancellor Gordon Brown has promised a 'major package of investment in services for elderly people' in next week's NHS national plan.
-
News
in brief: Public Concern at Work
The government is appealing against a High Court judge's ruling, obtained by the whistleblowers' charity Public Concern at Work, that the details of pending applications to employment tribunals should be open to the public. The charity wants to monitor the workings of the Public Interest Disclosure Act, one year old ...
-
News
In brief: Staff turnover
Staff turnover rates have risen beyond 50 per cent in the social services departments of London boroughs, according to a survey by the Association of London Government. A vacancy rate of 52 per cent was reported by one borough, while another said its ability to provide a service at all ...
-
News
In brief: Healthcare of refugees
The healthcare of refugees is being marginalised by discrimination and xenophobia, according to the principal family therapist at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, Jeremy Woodcock. He said clinical experience suggested that discrimination contributed to inferior healthcare.