All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-07-20 – Page 2
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A dose of scepticism
As pressure groups, drug companies and others express their doubts about the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Lynn Eaton meets its beleaguered chief executive
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NHS Direct 'has no impact on emergency services'
NHS Direct has failed to stem growing demand for emergency medical services, according to a report from Sheffield University's medical care research unit. It found no difference in the use of accident and emergency departments and emergency ambulances, since the helpline was introduced. But NHS Direct 'may have restrained the ...
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Healer's digest
Having meals round a table with other people encourages patients to eat more. Heather Hartwell and John Edwards report
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Manager numbers increase despite 'red tape' pledge
The government's NHS reforms have brought a substantial increase in the number of health service managers, despite pledges to cut 'red tape'.
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Days like this
Internal market and waiting times. . . Funding to remove patients from lists. . . Trust applications. . . Limited powers for HAs. . . And CHCs
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Time to turn the tables and give NHS data it deserves
Performance indicators are essential part of service's accountability
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Shhhhhh, whisper who dares. . .
. . . but increase in manager workforce is cause for celebration
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Damned by the Dame who looks down from on high
When Tory MP Graham Brady rang to say he'd just held a revealing debate on patronage in health boards, I commiserated. That was all well and good, but didn't he know that Tony Blair had just staged a rare press conference, White House-style, at Number 10? Or that ministers were ...
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Drug companies are invited to have say in service frameworks
The government has asked the pharmaceutical industry to advise and have an input into NHS national service frameworks.
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'Climate of fear' mars push to create PCTs
The government is at risk of 'derailing' its own reform of primary care, according to research by the NHS Alliance.
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Retro chic rules the roost
Sometimes it seems as if the NHS is not so much being modernised as going back in time - a case of 'back to the future'.
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HAs invite comments on primary care restructure
Two health authorities have launched a major consultation exercise to help staff and patients shape future services in Hertfordshire. The proposals include merging East & North Hertfordshire HA and West Hertfordshire HA, setting up seven primary care trusts across the county and creating a single mental health trust to cover ...
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Denham refers new round of cancer drugs to NICE
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is to rule on whether a range of anti-cancer drugs should be available on the NHS. Health minister John Denham has referred a series of treatments to NICE, in a two-year programme. The list covers therapies for lung, colorectal, blood, breast, ovarian, brain and ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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In brief: Intensive care patients
Intensive care patients are twice as likely to die at times of understaffing or overwork, according to a report in last week's Lancet. A study in an adult intensive care unit at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, also found that understaffing was linked to excessive rates of complications , errors and hospital-acquired ...
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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.
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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.
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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
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