All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-03
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Short Cuts: Ambulance services in London falter on 999 calls
London Ambulance Service trust's performance has dipped again.During June, when Euro 2000 added to demand, ambulances reached 35 per cent of urgent 999 calls within eight minutes, against a target of 55 per cent, and 82 per cent of calls within 14 minutes, against a target of 95 per cent.The ...
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Short Cuts: Call for GPs to abandon 'traditional role'
The Office of Health Economics has published a call for GPs to abandon much of their traditional role and become 'general contractors for care', steering patients through the health system in much the same way as a general building contractor steers a building project through its various stages. Professor Gordon ...
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'Shocked' CHCs bite back in row over abolition
Patient watchdogs have attacked the government's NHS plan, warning it will reduce public monitoring of the NHS despite its supposed 'patient focus'.
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Trust attacked by GMC for lack of action in Neale case
The president of the General Medical Council has strongly criticised managers in Northallerton for failing to take much earlier action against gynaecologist Richard Neale, who was struck off the medical register last week.
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Review for NI acute services
An independent review of acute hospital services in Northern Ireland is underway as part of a plan to develop health and personal social services published this week.
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Ambulance staff get better links
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance trust has agreed a contract with NTL for installation and maintenance of an advanced communications network.
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In Brief: need for collaborative approaches
A procurement review of NHS IT has stressed the need for collaborative approaches and agreed national standards.
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Short Cuts: 'One in three' in rural areas experienced poverty
A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report has concluded that one in three people in rural areas experienced poverty at some time between 1990 and 1996, but the problem was masked by 'apparent affluence', making social exclusion 'harder to address'. It says increasing gentrification in the countryside and policies to cut down ...
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In Brief: Asset management system
Harlequin Software Consultants, providers of financial systems to over 80 trusts, have launched an asset management system to add to their accounts receivable, cashiers, charitable funds and patients' money. It allows users to keep track of all capital assets held within the trust, log all movements, view a history, run ...
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In Brief: Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority is overseeing consultation on the creation of two primary care trusts for East Hampshire and Portsmouth City, the second of which would involve changes to current primary care group boundaries to align the PCT with local authority boundaries.
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Think radically on debt, beleaguered HA told
A 'radical rethink of management and accountability issues' is needed at debt-ridden West Surrey health authority, according to a report by an independent advisory panel.
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Plans for pay system and bonuses take flak
Talks on a new pay system for the health service have stalled, while the NHS plan's proposals for 'cash incentives' for staff performance have sparked union anger.
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NHSnet funding boost
A chunk of the £60m IT Budget money allocated to the NHS will go towards speeding up new information technology, particularly communications via NHSnet.
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Make or break
Was it worth the wait? HSJ opens its six-page analysis of the NHS plan with the Commons announcement - a crucial day for the government, as Laura Donnelly, Tash Shifrin, Lyn Whitfield and Kaye McIntosh report
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In Brief: public consultation on two mental health strategies
Welsh health secretary Jane Hutt has launched public consultation on two mental health strategies for Wales - one covering adult services and one on provision for children and adolescents.
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In Brief: Welsh waiting lists have dipped
Welsh waiting lists have dipped by 300, prompting Ms Hutt to say she expected to see 'further falls in coming months'.On 30 June, 80,969 patients were waiting for inpatient or day-case treatment, down from 81,251 at the end of May.The number of people waiting more than 18 months fell by ...