All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-09-21 – Page 2
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In brief: Southampton University Hospitals trust
Southampton University Hospitals trust has decided to spend £130,000 of its national clean-up campaign money on improving its 400 toilets, admitting 'sheer wear and tear' means 'they never really look - or smell - very hygienic'. The remaining £20,000 will be used to remove chewing gum from carpets in the ...
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In brief: Essex Rivers Healthcare trust
Essex Rivers Healthcare trust saw work start this week on an £890,000 scheme to expand and modernise the accident and emergency department of Colchester General Hospital. Almost £600,000 will come from the government's modernisation fund, although the trust is still trying to secure 'a larger contribution'from this.
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In brief: Unison workers
A poll of 650 readers of the Dudley and Stourbridge News attracted 80 per cent support for Unison workers holding their fourth strike in six weeks against a private finance initiative hospital rebuilding project in Dudley.
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Bring on the clowns
In the beginning was the administrator: born to regulate the NHS and check that intended actions matched written policies, using not judgement but the rule book. The service was over-regulated and under-scrutinised: once the rules had been met, little was done to check that progress matched intended aims - especially ...
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Building insights into good value
Total facilities management By Brian Atkin and Adrian Brooks Blackwell Science 192 pages £29. 50 paperback
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Campaign launched to put patients centre-stage
A campaign has been launched, led by the Long-Term Medical Conditions Alliance, to put patients centre-stage in the New NHS. People's Voice for Health (pv4h) argues that the NHS plan was 'a step in the right direction'. But it now wants a commitment to a comprehensive service, involving the people ...
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Cancelled ops suggestwinterwoes
Figures showing a big jump in cancelled operations this year suggest that managers will struggle to comply with ministerial orders to keep them to a minimum this winter.
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Changing rooms
Transferring medical patients to outlying wards causes disruption to both staff and patients and is a poor way of relieving pressure on beds. Lesley Lack and Joy Warren report
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Group claims inroads on improvements to hospital
The East London Communities Organisation has claimed an 'important step forward' in securing better services at Newham General Hospital. Following a meeting to launch a report on the state of the hospital, it said managers had promised changes to the way food was heated and serviced in the hospital, with ...
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Contractors criticised on records
Financial controls over central finance services contracted out by the Public Health Laboratory Service broke down in 1998-99, the National Audit Office has found.
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A sorry tale of crying wolf which will haunt Labour
Using the NHS to end the fuel crisis will do little to woo back voters
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Days like this
Staff increment proposal . . . 'presumptuous'staff ads. . . Clarke says watershed ahead. . .
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Dear Mel. . .
In HSJ of 27 July, a woman wrote in to 'Dear Mel' to say that her hospital social club had been used on one occasion by women for a hen night (with male strippers) and by men (probably with female strippers) on another. Why is it, then, 'a blast' for ...
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'Extra resources needed' to meet future demands on mental health
An interim strategy examining how the NHS can build a mental health workforce to meet the demands of the national service framework and NHS plan says extra resources will still be needed.
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Where men are men and women don't get a look-in
The rise and fall of modern medicine By James Le Fanu Abacus 490 pages £9. 99 paperback
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