All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-17 – Page 2

  • News

    Time to give nurses their dues

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Promise of high salaries for supernurses is little more than a red herring

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    News: Department of Health

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has allocated £5m for 'highly specialised' child and adolescent mental health in-patient services, as part of a £90m three-year package announced last year.The money will provide at least 20 extra beds, regional and sub-regional arrangements for emergency admission and assessment, and increases in specialised intensive outreach ...

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    Electronic records on hold in PFI deal

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    A unique deal to provide a sophisticated electronic patient record system as part of a private finance initiative scheme has been put on hold, less than two years after it was signed.

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    Days like this

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health's £4m drive to improve NHS communications is in tatters after events for managers ended in disarray. The exercise was shelved after problems climaxed in a rebellion of managers from North East Thames, who complained that sessions were too simplistic. Consultants hired to conduct the events treated ...

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    Local counsel

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    An enterprising recruitment scheme is tackling the under-representation of people from ethnic minorities in the NHS and social care workforce by nurturing talent on its own doorstep. Janet Snell reports

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    What a nasty complaint

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Changes to contracts, guaranteed appointment times, too few extra doctors. . .GPs are getting down to some serious grumbling on the extra pressures they say the NHS plan will bring to the profession. Ann McGauran reports

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    News: Royal Colleges of Physicians

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The faculty of public health medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK has issued a chronology detailing key parliamentary acts, inquiries and other events that have been used by central and local government to provide or regulate medical care, public health and welfare services since 1066. It ...

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    Nurses see through dress code

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    West Country nurses have been warned to choose their underwear with care following the reissue of a trust's uniform policy.

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    DoH clarifies 'patient group directions'mix-up

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The government has quietly issued a circular on 'patient group directions' following 'an error' in the NHS plan about nurse prescribing.

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    Changing times for nurses: a long way to go

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    SNP challenges Executive over transfer of equipment funding

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish National Party has accused the Scottish Executive of colluding with NHS trusts over the transfer of money meant for capital purchases into debt reduction.

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    It's US cash on delivery for the mother superior

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    August is the silly season, so we should not panic about the decline of seriousness when the papers, broadsheet as well as tabloid, over-react to William Hague's 14 teenage pints or to Madonna's strictures on British gynaecology.

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    Shipman case sparks monitoring of GPs

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Dumfries and Galloway health board has decided to monitor GP death rates in the wake of the Harold Shipman case, in a move opposed by GP leaders.

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    Scots Conservatives won't push private care

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Conservative Party is likely to take a softer line on expanding the private healthcare sector than its English counterpart.

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    MP demands public probe into drinking water over fear of cancer/chlorine link nking water over

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The government is being urged to launch a public health probe into possible links between chlorinated tap water, cancer and problems in pregnancy.

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    Special hospital to become part of county-wide trust

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Ministers have approved proposals to bring Rampton special hospital into a county-wide NHS trust from next April. Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust will bring together Rampton, Central Nottinghamshire Healthcare trust, Nottingham Healthcare trust and some services from Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services trust and Rotherham Priority Health Services trust.

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    Counter argument

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The NHS plan proposes a much wider role for community pharmacies - and this is long overdue, says Nick Bosanquet

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    Boroughs' bid to go to Lords over appeal court ruling

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Four local authorities are applying for leave to appeal to the House of Lords after failing to overturn a High Court decision that four people sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act were not required to pay for specialist accommodation after they were discharged from hospital. The Appeal Court ruled ...