All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-03 – Page 3

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    Trusts sidelined cancer funds out of research, MPs discover

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    MPs have accused trusts of funnelling away funds earmarked for research on cancer.

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    Underspent HAZs defend budgets

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Health action zones have defended underspending their budgets by 32 per cent overall last year, amid fears that funding cuts this year mean the government is 'losing faith' in the scheme.

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    In Brief: public consultation on two mental health strategies

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

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    In Brief: single regeneration budget funding

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    London mayor Ken Livingstone has announced that 28 out of 46 successful bids for single regeneration budget funding involve health promotion. More than £300m of SRB money is available over the next seven years.

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    In Brief: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has received a $40m donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a programme of work on malaria.

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    In Brief: 'mismatches' causing problems

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    In her annual report, chief inspector of social services Denise Platt has said 'mismatches' between local authority and primary care group boundaries are causing problems - particularly in highly populated areas such as London.

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    In Brief: Christie Hospital trust

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Crowds attending the Royal Horticultural Society flower show at Tatton Park, Cheshire, threw £9,000 into a collecting urn for Manchester cancer centre the Christie Hospital trust.

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    In Brief: guaranteed national levels of service

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Information Authority has guaranteed national levels of service from NHSnet following an upgrade of its messaging service. The deal - involving an amended contract with Syntegra, the messaging arm of BT - guarantees delivery times, free one-stop support services and access to a national web-based e-mail address book ...

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    In Brief: Local NHS performance information

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Local NHS performance information is to be published on the Internet by the end of the year. All local NHS organisations will be obliged to provide web-based information on how health and social care services are performing, together with details of how to access local services such as GPs and ...

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    In Brief: Sharing Clinical Information in the Primary Care Team project

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    A pilot project designed for sharing information between health and social care has been established by the national Assembly for Wales.

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    In Brief: telemedicine solutions

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Paediatric consultants at Guy's and St Thomas' in London are using telemedicine solutions from Agilent Technologies to transmit paediatric ECG data across NHSnet. Digital data can be transferred to video to allow specialist diagnosis of congenital heart conditions. The link has been established between Guy's and West Suffolk trust, but ...

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    In Brief: WirelessMed launched

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Doctors.net.uk, the online medical community, has launched WirelessMed, the first wireless application protocol service to link directly to Medline.

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    Make or break

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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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    NHSnet funding boost

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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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    Plans for pay system and bonuses take flak

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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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    Think radically on debt, beleaguered HA told

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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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    In Brief: Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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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    In Brief: Asset management system

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    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 ...