All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-11-16 – Page 3

  • News

    Oxford Radcliffe trust brings out 'limited' cardiac unit review

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    A long-awaited investigation into staff relations and services at Oxford Radcliffe Hospital trust's cardiac unit was due to publish its findings yesterday.

  • News

    In Brief

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has published a service delivery agreement describing how the promises in the NHS plan are going to be achieved between 2001-04.

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    Breast-screening programme detections increase

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The NHS breast-screening programme detected 10 per cent more cancers over the past year compared to 1998-99, and now exceeds the performance of the original study on which the programme was based, according to its latest annual report. The report, out last week, shows that the detection rate is now ...

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    NHS policy on elderly to break new ground

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The new NHS national director of older people's services began work this week, chairing the first meeting of the government's taskforce on older people.

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    Bottling out?

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    'Difficult' questions are being asked about the sincerity of the government's oft-quoted commitment to tackling the growing problem of alcohol misuse. Paul Stephenson reports

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    South East pay boost 'could divide nurses'

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The government's announcement of extra payments for nurses in London and South East England has been criticised as 'divisive' amid rumours that it could result in a lower pay award for nurses nationally.

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    Public health role of PCGs/PCTs will blossom

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    NICE 'not examining other benefits'of beta interferon

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been accused of failing to consider properly the wider cost-benefits to society of the multiple sclerosis drug, beta interferon.

  • News

    McKay appointment strengthens NHS Executive and regional offices

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    NHS deputy chief executive Neil McKay has been appointed chief operating officer for the health service in a move designed to strengthen NHS Executive headquarters at Quarry House in Leeds.

  • News

    Milburn targets deprived areas in three-year funding allocations

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Deprived areas are set to benefit from health secretary Alan Milburn's announcement of the first three-year funding allocations for health authorities.

  • News

    One for all and all for one?

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The NHS plan refers temptingly to the concept of 'one-stop health and social care services'. Patients and users would no longer be pushed from organisational pillar to professional post. A call to one would be a call to all: seamless care at the point of delivery.

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    Red light alert

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Failure to meet the NHS plan's performance targets will mean being classified as a 'red-light' organisation in need of special measures. This will have legal implications for both patients and trusts alike, writes Melanie Print

  • News

    HA rejects funding bias claim against PMS pilot

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Allegations of political bias in funding for a personal medical service pilot run by a member of the NHS access taskforce have been dismissed as unfair by Salford and Trafford health authority.

  • News

    After the mediation: what they said

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The claimant: 'I couldn't have done it without [my wife]. Because of her support and because she was part of it. She lived through it with me all the time and she went through hell as well, a kind of psychological hell. She was part of the battle.'

  • News

    Bringing on the support act

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Advocacy skills for health and social care professionals By Neil Bateman Jessica Kingsley 192 pages £15.95

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    Seven days free access to the HSJ website archive

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The HSJ website archive is being thrown open to anyone who wants to use it this week. The archive contains more than 4,000 documents, including 1,000 full-text news stories added this year alone, and offers access to everything that has ever appeared on the site. Although use of the searchable ...

  • News

    Something foolish about going backwards

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    £5.2m private grant for asthma medicine research

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow School of Respiratory Science is to receive a £5.2m grant from Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyorin to develop existing research into creating a range of asthma medicines. The National Asthma Campaign for Scotland has welcomed the investment as Scotland has seen a 50 per cent increase in asthma cases over ...

  • News

    Housing gets £44m from health budget

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has come under attack after it was discovered that she has agreed to transfer £44m from the health budget to help cut Glasgow city council's £1bn housing debt.

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    150 million prescriptions 'await processing'

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Shortages of generic drugs have produced 'a crisis' in prescription processing, the chief executive of the Prescriptions Pricing Authority has said.