All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-10-26 – Page 2

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    Our duty is to demonstrate staying power

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    England posts homecare deficit

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The amount of homecare purchased by English local authorities has exceeded the amount directly provided by them for the first time, according to analysts Laing and Buisson.

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    Days like this

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The internal market reforms are being discredited by the breakneck speed of their implementation, says King's Fund College director Gordon Best. He told HSJ that in 20 years he had 'never before seen such intense top-down political pressure. Honest dissent is now categorised as opposition'. He added: 'I know from ...

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    Treating people with dangerous disorders

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    A cultural flaw in the plan

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Slow progress of quality reforms exposes the NHS plan's major weakness

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    Remedy for overspending crisis may pile extra pressure on NHS

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Action to tackle a financial crisis in social services could put further pressure on the NHS, which is already facing major bed blocking problems in the South East of England.

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    Nurse roster contract

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    A consortium of five trusts in London has awarded HMT Systems the contract to supply the RosterPro nurse rostering system.

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    Cloud on the silver lining

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The brighter outlook for those diagnosed with HIV is putting a financial strain on long-term support services. Laura Donnelly reports on how they are coping

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    Wales freezes prescription charges

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Prescription charges in Wales are to be frozen, with free medicines for people under-25 from April, Welsh finance minister Edwina Hart has announced.

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    Moment of madness ends cash injection triumph

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    As I write, they are discussing rail regulation, in the wake of the Hatfield crash, on Radio 4.But that was last week's disaster. A few minutes earlier they had been talking about this week's disaster: the renewed controversy over BSE triggered by the Phillips report, by the fresh scare in ...

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    People 'unable to pay more for elderly care'

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    A leading think-tank has cast doubt on the government's plans to push people into taking out secondary pensions and insurance to fund longterm care.

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    Primary care chiefs say pivotal problem in sector is low morale

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Primary care leaders have warned ministers that they will need to provide more money and tackle low morale as part of a full-scale review of the primary care sector.

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    Cancel that taxi, it's NHSnet

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    In 1992, we were promised that all NHS organisations would be communicating across NHSnet by 1996.In 1998, we were promised that 100 per cent of computerised GPs would be on the net by the end of 1999.We have just been promised 95 per cent by 2001 and 100 per cent ...

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    BT rolls out GP service

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Following a successful pilot in north Nottinghamshire, BT Health has launched its managed IT services for GPs, Primary Connect, on a nationwide basis.

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    In Brief

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Yvette Cooper has told the annual Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association conference that a rise in child obesity could wipe out recent increases in life expectancy 'in a generation'.

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    In Brief

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    A clinical governance audit tool, based on 20 key indicators, has been developed by SGS. The audit model can be used either to develop existing quality management systems or as a stand-alone 'gap analysis' tool. Based on the ISO 9000 framework, the model has been piloted in an NHS community ...

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    In Brief

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    A series of regional workshops is under way to provide updates on the development of the NHS website, nhs.uk which is set to rapidly expand in the next few months. The website currently offers a limited range of information, including a history of the NHS and a directory of NHS ...

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    Norman boost for RCN crown

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Sue Norman, president of the UK Central Council for Nursing and Midwifery, has emerged as one of the favourites to replace Christine Hancock as general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing when she stands down next summer.

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    BMA launches guide on personal medical services

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association's GP committee has produced a guide jointly with the NHS Alliance and National Association of Primary Care on personal medical services pilots that will be sent to all GPs. The guide will be issued with a letter warning GPs to 'weigh up the options carefully' before ...

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    Scotland on course for a bleak winter

    2000-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Scotland may be heading for another winter crisis as bed blocking has reached 10 per cent of total capacity in some areas.