All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-09-21
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£100m dental strategy 'won't halt'private practice exodus
The government launched a £100m, two-year NHS dental strategy this week - but it will not stem the tide of dentists leaving the NHS for private practice, say dentists' leaders.
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In brief: Beacons 2000
Sixty-eight NHS organisations have been named 'Beacons 2000' by health secretary Alan Milburn. They join the existing 287 beacon sites and receive £15,000 each. Rampton Hospital's personality disorder service was named as a beacon for the treatment of the disorder in a scheme jointly sponsored by the Home Office.
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Wales 'needs new priorities by 2002'
The NHS in Wales should move towards a 'transparent and consistent' system of prioritising patients based on clinical need, according to a report endorsed last week by the Welsh Assembly's health committee.
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Consultants' plans aim to remove sting from curbs on nonNHS work
Consultants have reiterated their opposition to government plans to restrict their freedom to work in the private sector by issuing their own proposals to reform the consultant contract.
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Unto the breach brave Alan - with a red card
In between getting back from France with my tan intact - despite the 100 franc limit on purchases of you-know-what - and setting off for Charlie Kennedy's Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth, I managed to dig out a reference which had been bugging me throughout the great fuel crisis and ...
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'Red alert' removed as petrol crisis ends
The NHS was taken off 'red alert' on Monday as fuel supplies started to return to normal following the blockade of oil refineries.
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Hutt announces degree boon in midwifery courses
Half of entrants to midwifery courses in Wales can now undertake a degree programme, Welsh Assembly health and social services secretary Jane Hutt told the Welsh conference on nursing, midwifery and health visiting last week. Ms Hutt said that nursing, midwifery and health education represented the biggest single discipline in ...
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Birmingham HA appoints Scots NHS chief
Geoff Scaife, chief executive of the NHS in Scotland for the past seven years, is to become the new chief executive of Birmingham health authority.
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Low-key union debate in ritual attack on PFI
The Trades Union Congress issued a ritual denunciation of the private finance initiative last week at the end of a low-key congress overshadowed by the fuel crisis.
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Putting the clock back
Will the government's flexible retirement initiative have any effect on the NHS's entrenched staffing problems? Jeremy Davies reports
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Operations prompt Bart's chief to step down early
Ray Pett, chief executive of Barts and the London trust, has announced that he is to retire early. Mr Pett (pictured) said he had intended to 'stay on for another year or so' but did not feel fully recovered from two operations and an infection last year. He also argued ...
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Toolkit will help trusts judge beds capacity
Trusts and health authorities will receive 'prescriptive' guidance next month showing them how to get their share of 2,100 extra acute and general beds promised in the NHS plan.
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Employers and unions at odds in final submissions to pay bodies
Employers and unions were set for a head-on collision over pay as the last submissions to the NHS pay review bodies were handed in this week.
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In brief: Plymouth Hospitals trust
Plymouth Hospitals trust, which saw the resignation of its chief executive and his deputy in a row over 'fiddled' waiting lists, has appointed Paul Roberts to lead the organisation. Mr Roberts has been acting chief executive since January this year, on secondment from Plymouth Community Services trust.
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In brief: Bury St Edmunds primary care group
Bury St Edmunds primary care group is recruiting local people to patients' forums to cover Bury and Sudbury in response to the NHS plan. PCG chief executive Mark Crawley said the forums were 'not a token gesture' but would give people 'real influence over the local health service'.