All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-10 – Page 2

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    Pathology modernisation spending decided

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The government has announced £15m of spending on 23 projects from the pathology modernisation fund. The projects, which include money for modernisation, information technology, pathology reorganisation, training, and new screening services, were chosen by an independent steering group. Junior health minister Lord Hunt said they set the pattern for pathology ...

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    Dear Mel. . .

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    During the recent hot weather we found the temperature in our wards went up dramatically. Unfortunately, we had insufficient fans to refresh our patients and they became rather over-heated. What should I do?

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    Days like this

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Managers' representatives have attacked NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol's demand for action on waiting lists. He wants no patients waiting more than two years for treatment by March 1992, and has said managers' performance-related pay would be judged on waiting times. But the Institute of Health Services Management said he ...

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    'Hit squad' head cool on red-light move

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The head of the national patient access team has moved to distance herself from the government's decision to 'name and shame' seven trusts over their waiting-list performance.

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    GPs protest over plans for contracts shake-up

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    GP leaders have attacked the NHS plan for setting 'unrealistic' targets in its call for family doctors to move to new contracts and limiting increases in the workforce.

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    Conspicuous consumption

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    TB is perceived as a poverty-related disease of the distant past, but it is making a comeback, especially in London, writes Laura Donnelly

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    MPs want super-ombudsman to be gateway for complaints

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    MPs have called for a super-ombudsman service to replace the separate watchdogs for Parliament, local government and the health service.

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    Closer to home

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Although many hospital patients would be better off at home, intermediate care is regarded with scepticism in many quarters. A shift in attitudes is called for, according to Jacqueline Mallender and Andrew Richman

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    More to a clean-up than mops

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Facile approach to the topic belies complex issues lying at its heart

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    Clean sweep

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The government promises that dirt and grime are to be banished from hospitals - now. Lyn Whitfield wonders if a quick fix is really the answer

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    News: National Childbirth Trust

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The National Childbirth Trust has called for 'one-stop information shops' to be set up in health centres and hospitals. A study found seven out of 10 first-time mothers wanted more information on everything from possible interventions in pregnancy to how to get back into shape.

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    MPs 'frustrated' by difficulty in changing NHS

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The National Audit Office has saved the taxpayer £1.3bn over the past three years, meeting its target to save £8 for every £1 it costs to run, Sir John Bourn, head of the NAO, said as it released its annual report last week.Four reports issued over the past year looked ...

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    Scottish control centres set to close

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Scottish Ambulance Service is proposing to reduce its control rooms from eight to two or three.

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    Cash-hungry, volatile and high-risk: the genomics industry

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The business of genomics is not dissimilar to that of Internet commerce:

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    News: English and Welsh cancer services

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The Commission for Health Improvement and the Audit Commission are to examine a random selection of health organisations as part of a review of cancer services. The findings will be used to assess progress in implementing the 1995 Calman-Hine report and the 1996 Cameron report on English and Welsh cancer ...