All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-12-07 – Page 2

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    Pilot study tests limits of co-operation

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The potential - and limit - of emergency service co-operation is being looked at in a series of pilot projects, including one in Wiltshire.

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    PCGs 'must go complementary'

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    All primary care groups should provide complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to a report by the House of Lords select committee on science and technology.

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    Elderly 'too scared to complain'

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Older people are frightened to complain about NHS services for fear of reprisals, and those who do are unlikely to get a response for months if not years, according to a new report from Age Concern.

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    Patients' negligence claims meet with failure

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Negligence claims by patients go on unabated, but as two recent cases demonstrate, they can be fought successfully where it can be shown that there is insufficient evidence that the injuries were caused by negligence.

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    Century and not out

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Victorian pioneers of community care are getting the recognition they deserve. Barbara Millar reports

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    Test case may clarify UKCC 'judge and jury' concern

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Fears that the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting is breaking the European Convention on Human Rights by acting as judge and jury in misconduct cases could be clarified in a test case which started last week. The Royal College of Nursing, with the support of the ...

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    'Fat czar' brought in to tackle overweight Scots

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A government weight-watcher is to be appointed after a survey of health in Scotland showed around three-quarters of Scots were overweight.

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    In Brief

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    As HSJ went to press, the government seemed on the verge of dropping legal aid proposals requiring losing litigants to stump up for their legal bills from any equity in their house over the first £3,000. At present, equity of up to £100,000 is protected.

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    In Brief

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Dr Elizabeth Vallance, former chair of St George's Healthcare trust, is to succeed Sir William Reid as chair of the advisory committee on distinction awards in England and Wales. The committee advises on awards to individual consultants for 'outstanding work' in the NHS.

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    Have a NICE day in Nice - it's time for a winter break

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Last week was a NICE week and a Nice week, whereas this week will mainly be a Nice week. All the evidence is that it will not be such a nice one on the NHS front, let alone the European one. But health secretary Alan Milburn has chosen to place ...

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    Time to put the brakes on

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Is the traffic-light system as unfair as the much-loathed efficiency index?

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    Body politic?

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    NICE chair Professor Sir Michael Rawlins sharply rebutted claims that ministers had influenced its decisions.

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    Trust board rejects PFI merger proposal

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A controversial private finance initiative scheme has hit renewed trouble, with the board of one of the trusts involved rejecting a crucial merger plan.

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    Tangled up in blue

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Will the 999 emergency services seek closer co-operation or will the potential pitfalls put them off? Alison Moore reports

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    Bleating up the wrong tree

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Conventional wisdom and government policy assume that there is a 'shortage' of nurses in the NHS and the remedy for this malaise is that remuneration should be increased. Perhaps this conclusion is a nonsensical mixture of dubious logic and inadequate evidence and nurses are not underpaid.

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    Rights article catches NHS on the hop

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    When the Human Rights Act came into force on 2 October, trusts braced themselves for test cases on a variety of fronts.

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    Another fine mesh

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A health secretary wrapped in the flag, vehement denials of ministerial interference and more data than the Pentagon - it was all at NICE's second annual conference.Paul Stephenson reports