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

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    New ambulance trust chief needs Ken's capital ideas

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Extra funding alone will not cure emergency service's many ills

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    NHS plan faces race allegation

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    A doctors' leader has referred the NHS plan to the Commission for Racial Equality on the grounds that it may discriminate against ethnic, singlehanded GPs.

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    Backlog of tests after donor plea

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    A family's appeal for a bone marrow donor has left the National Blood Authority struggling with a backlog of 3,000 unchecked blood samples.

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    Welcome suggestions for advocacy service

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Race equality advisers appointed in Wales

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Two race equality advisers are to work within the NHS in Wales. Michael Banner and Dee Hines-Johnson are being employed by Bro Taf health authority in posts funded by the Welsh Assembly for two years. Mr Banner has worked on race and equality issues for 12 years. Ms Hines-Johnson has ...

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    West Surrey HA ads were not misleading

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed a complaint about West Surrey health authority and Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals trust by MP David Wilshire.The MP complained that the advertisements about the future of emergency services at Ashford Hospital were misleading.The ASA concluded they were not.HA chief executive Jenny Griffiths said ...

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    News: Dental action plan

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    Scotland has decided to spend part of its share of the additional money raised by increased tobacco taxes on a three-year programme to provide free toothbrushes and toothpaste for infants in deprived areas. The initiative is part of a dental action plan announced this week. One target is that 60 ...

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    Generics price rise hits NHS for £200m

    2000-08-17T00:00:00Z

    The full cost to the NHS of last year's jump in generic drug prices has been revealed as £200m.