All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-09-21 – Page 3

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    Toolkit will help trusts judge beds capacity

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Operations prompt Bart's chief to step down early

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Putting the clock back

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Will the government's flexible retirement initiative have any effect on the NHS's entrenched staffing problems? Jeremy Davies reports

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    Low-key union debate in ritual attack on PFI

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    'Creaking other arms of the NHS'are in way

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

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    Birmingham HA appoints Scots NHS chief

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Hutt announces degree boon in midwifery courses

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    'Red alert' removed as petrol crisis ends

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Unto the breach brave Alan - with a red card

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Consultants' plans aim to remove sting from curbs on nonNHS work

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Time to evaluate the devil's advocate

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

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    Abolition causes 'damage' to confidence

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

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    In agreement with the HL7 standard

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

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    Wales 'needs new priorities by 2002'

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    In brief: Beacons 2000

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    £100m dental strategy 'won't halt'private practice exodus

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    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.