All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-11-16 – Page 2
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A swing too far?
Paying the private sector to treat NHS patients raises issues of accountability, when things go wrong. John Holmes reports
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Extending shelflife
Promoting health in old age By Miriam Barnard Open University Press 176 pages £16.99
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Employing practice staff
The future for PCTs may include employing practice staff, taking on many more salaried doctors and even providing social care.
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Sacked Hillingdon dispute leader returns to work
The leader of the long-running Hillingdon Hospital dispute was last week back at work, two years after an employment tribunal ruled that she should have her job back. Malkiat Bilku led the three-year strike by 53 domestic and catering staff, and was sacked in 1995 for refusing to accept cuts ...
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Denham rules out re-tendering Dudley PFI project
Health minister John Denham has intervened in the long-running Dudley Hospital private finance initiative dispute by issuing a statement confirming the government's refusal to re-tender the project.Mr Denham's statement came last week as 600 mainly ancillary workers staged a 12-day strike, the sixth in their campaign against transfer out of ...
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'Superior' Scots NHS plan will demand speedy end to 'turf wars'
The Scottish health plan will 'differ from and better' the English NHS plan in key areas like tackling waiting lists, according to leaked drafts of the document seen by HSJ.
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Defence of the realm
Prince Charles, now apparently in tune with the zeitgeist, has been back to the BMA promoting integrated medicine.The NHS is catching up fast, reports Alison Moore
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Dear Mel. . .
What is the position with beef? Should I be serving it to patients and advising everyone not to eat it, or not? There is much confusing advice about, and I really don't know where to turn. Help.
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Days like this
A future Labour government would offer a 'new partnership' with NHS managers, shadow health secretary Robin Cook has promised. He said health authorities would have 'maximum freedom' within agreed targets to manage their affairs.'Labour's deal with NHS management will be based on a recognition that those working in the service ...
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Damage limitation
Disciplinary procedures against doctors are complex, time-consuming and expensive. The NHS plan proposes mechanisms to cut this burden. But problems remain, not least that doctors may not welcome the proposals. Peter Edwards explains
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The varieties of cultural experience
Culture, religion and patient care in a multi-ethnic society A handbook for professionals By Alix Henley and Judith Schott Age Concern Books 602 pages £19.99
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On the critical list
CHI calls it a 'road to recovery', but its reports on two scandal-hit trusts paint a damning picture of gross failures. Ann McGauran wonders what will follow
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Coming on strong
Increasing numbers of lay people are being appointed to NHS bodies.Their training must be addressed, says Charlotte Williamson
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Clinical governance failures let 'cruel' practices go unchecked
The first two investigations by the Commission for Health Improvement have identified failures in clinical governance systems which allowed 'cruel practices' to go unchecked.
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Tough but fair - CHI's first reports set tone for future
But local determination to reform is the only long-term solution to NHS ills
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Is Loyd hungry for a challenge?
We look forward to celeb chef coping with constraints of hospital catering
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Why disciplinary cases can flounder
A trust received a number of allegations that during the course of consultations a staff-grade doctor had questioned patients about intimate aspects of their sex lives.
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