All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-07-27 – Page 2

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    Crash course

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    NHS trainee managers were hanging on to their hats last week when they piloted their way through HSJ's one-day simulation event. Tash Shifrin reports on the ups and downs of the day

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    Legal ruling may see CHI go public

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A landmark court ruling could force the Commission for Health Improvement to hold its investigations in public.

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    Faith and hope in health charities

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Patient power? The politics of patients' associations in Britain and America By Bruce Wood Open University Press 224 pages £19.99

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    Casting a verdict on history

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Landmark? Last chance? Election winner? Will today's national plan for the NHS fulfil the many hopes invested in it? Kaye McIntosh asks key players for their assessment

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    Short Cuts: Council votes to sort cash crisis with outside help

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Local councillors have voted to call in the auditor general for Scotland to investigate the cash crisis at Tayside University Hospitals trust. Members of Angus council unanimously voted to write to Robert Black to ask him to investigate the £11.1m overspend and the £8m deficit forecast for this year. Although ...

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    Trust to be questioned on conduct during Neale case

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Northallerton Health Services trust is facing tough questions over why it gave gynaecologist Richard Neale a £100,000 payoff, bought his private consulting rooms and gave him a reference that allowed him to practise at other hospitals.

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    Headhunters hired to get Carter's successor

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Executive is facing new charges of 'cronyism' following the announcement that Ronnie Cleland is to play a leading role in recruiting a new chief medical officer for Scotland.

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    Short Cuts: Cancer care programme to be extended in Wales

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been asked to extend its programme on cancer care in Wales. NICE will carry out a two-year programme to provide guidance for clinicians and managers on the organisation of cancer services, minimum standards, access to new drugs and support for cancer patients and ...

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    Mental health strategy damned as MPs call for hospital closures

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Commons health select committee has launched a fierce attack on key strands of government policy on mental health.

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    MPs call for 'pilot' elections to trusts

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    MPs have urged the government to consider elections for members of trust and health authority boards.

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    In Brief: GP committee has expressed 'disappointment'

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association's GP committee has expressed 'disappointment' with government plans to spend £54.5m moving clinics into local surgeries. It said the investment was 'less than £1 per patient', it was not clear where the money would go and it should be used to 'reduce workload' not 'increase demand ...

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    In Brief: John Hutton

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Health minister John Hutton has introduced new standards for the size of rooms and communal areas in care homes, following the end of consultation on its document Fit for the Future, published last year. No more than 20 per cent of rooms will be shared from 2002.

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    In Brief: Welsh centre for NHS Direct satellite

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A satellite centre for NHS Direct will be set up at North Wales trust's base at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has announced. NHS Direct already operates from Cardiff. The new base will cover north Wales and mean that the whole of Wales will be covered ...

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    In Brief: Worcestershire

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Worcestershire local medical committee has urged Worcestershire health authority to agree to an independent, expert examination of its plans for a private finance initiative redevelopment of Worcester Royal Infirmary and its impact on services in Kidderminster. It says it is 'profoundly unhappy' with the widely criticised plans.

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    Ghetto blasters

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The need to end the exclusion of public health was the theme of Commons health select committee discussions this week. Ann McGauran listened in

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    Time to end our barrier grief

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

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