All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-10 – Page 3

  • News

    Breastfeeding

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Successful promotion of the benefits of breastfeeding requires balanced co-ordination of education and peer support for mothers, as well as training for healthcare staff, write Lisa Fairbank and Sue O'Meara

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    Union blasts PFI firm over shifts

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The company running non- clinical services at the country's first private finance initiative hospital has been accused of scrapping 'family friendly' shift patterns and forcing 40 cleaners into taking redundancy.

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    Bed spread

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The government is to invest £900m in intermediate care ser v ices des igned to keep o lder peop le out of hospital. Liverpool already has experience of using nursing home beds as alternatives to hospital care. The city has a large independent nursing home sector and, against a background ...

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    The good, the bad and the ugly

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Caring for older people An assessment of community care in the 1990s By Linda Bauld, John Chesterman, Bleddyn Davies, Ken Judge, Roshni Mangalore Ashgate 408 pages £49.95

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    Payout packages attacked by MSPs

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Scottish opposition parties have attacked the £2.8m paid in early retirement packages to senior NHS managers as part of trust restructuring.

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    Appeal Court ruling creates new anomaly in care charging

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    An Appeal Court ruling has created a further anomaly in care charging policies, while raising concerns that the cost will force cuts in mental health services.

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    Lottery preferred to extra taxes to aid NHS

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    A MORI poll has shown limited support for increased taxes to support the NHS. Of a sample of 2,014 adults questioned, 74 per cent said the National Lottery was their prefered option for additional funds, while 42 per cent supported diverting money from other areas of government spending and a ...

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    Ageing bull

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Rich countries fail to respond to Africa appeals

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Wealthy nations are failing to support World Health Organisation appeals for emergency health programmes in countries hit by war, population displacement and natural disaster, according to WHO figures. Five out of 21 appeals issued through the United Nations this year have failed to attract any support and four have achieved ...

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    Acute pressure begins to build as Hutt issues winter advice

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Welsh trusts were running at full capacity last week as guidance aimed at relieving acute pressures next winter was issued by health secretary Jane Hutt.

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    Action promised as LAS admits failure to meet modest targets

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    London Ambulance Service trust has promised action after admitting that it has failed to meet 'even modest performance targets' and cannot always provide a clinically safe service.

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    Strike action to be stepped up

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Unison members have voted to escalate strike action at Dudley Group of Hospitals trust in a dispute over a private finance initiative deal.Almost 600 mainly ancillary staff, who went on strike for 48 hours last week against transfer out of the NHS, have voted for seven-day strike action.

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    A glimpse of Patientville 2001

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    One of the most frustrating things about being a member of a modernisation action team was being sworn to secrecy about our discussions until after the NHS plan was published. Even more frustrating was knowing we had no control whatsoever over what went into the plan - that was for ...

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    £2m allotted to promote pre-school programmes

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has allocated £2m to get the Sure Start programme underway.The programme, already running in other parts of the UK, is intended to promote the development of pre-school children, focusing on deprived areas. Ms de Brun said some areas of particular need had not ...

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    Tayside finds way to cut £6.3m from debt

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Cash-strapped Tayside University Hospitals trust has agreed a package of measures to reduce its deficit by £6.3m a year to balance the books by the end of March 2002.