All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-08-17 – Page 3

  • News

    News: Multiple Sclerosis Society

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The Multiple Sclerosis Society is creating a national resource centre as part of its move to north London. The society has kept its freephone helpline number, 0808 800 8000, and its website, www.mssociety.org.uk

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    Out of order

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The government's promise of £300m for new equipment comes after two decades of under-investment, which have left much life-saving machinery obsolete. Colin Connolly reports

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    'Patient-centredness'will be ultimate test

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    in person

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Terence Etherton QC, chair of Broadmoor Hospital Authority, has been appointed chair designate ofWest London Mental Health trust. The new organisation will take over the management of health services provided by the authority and Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham Mental Health trust next April.

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    Smokers pledged to quit in their thousands

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Figures issued last week show that almost 15,000 people set 'quit dates' to give up smoking through new programmes developed by health action zones in England last year. But just 39 per cent of the 14,600 people who set dates had actually given up when they were followed up four ...

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    A punishing schedule

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The education service has suffered a regime of inspection and scrutiny; now it's the turn of the health service. Tash Shifrin reports

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    Something off the trolley?

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    If ever you wanted to analyse the effects of spin, the NHS plan is your opportunity. I read it the day it was announced, printed it off the web, and was overwhelmed by its contents, about 150 pages of ideas.

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    No trouble

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Brookside actresses Alexandra Fletcher (left) and Karen Drury join Mersey Regional Ambulance trust technician Kate Hodgers at the launch of a 'zero tolerance zone' campaign highlighting violence against ambulance staff.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The recent discovery that the mosquito-borne West Nile virus that plunged New York into panic last summer had survived the winter and was working its way up the US west coast sent a frisson of excitement through the broadsheet press on both sides of the Atlantic .