All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-12-14
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Extra £1bn will help fund key NHS objectives
The English health service will have around £1bn of extra cash to implement the NHS plan next year, according to NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves.
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Scottish NHS plan will abolish trusts
Scotland's 28 hospital and primary care trusts are to be brought under health board control in a radical reorganisation at the heart of the Scottish health plan launched today. The move will end the purchaser-provider split in the Scottish NHS.
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Great Scot! Trust abolition could put NHS out of kilter
Enormous upheaval will be watched carefully by English managers
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Consultant at abuse scandal hospital in new probe
A consultant psychiatrist criticised for his 'passive' role in the Garlands Hospital patient abuse scandal in North Cumbria has been suspended from his management post.
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Framework 'signals end of ageism'
The national service framework for elderly people, due to be published within weeks, will require the NHS to offer equal access to treatments and drugs regardless of age.
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All white on the night: but not without risk
This winter's unprecedented rains and flooding inevitably raise questions about the consequences of climate change on health.
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Cash boost allows breast screening to be extended
The Department of Health has confirmed that an additional £8m is to be allocated to the breast cancer screening programme to allow screening to be extended from next year to cover women aged between 65 and 70 .The extension of the mammography service will allow screening of an additional 400,000 ...
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More questions than answers
Analysing Health Policy Edited by Alison Hann Ashgate 206 pages £37.50
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Whose view is it anyway?
'What's clear from consultation on the NHS plan is the need for robust mechanisms to ensure user involvement moves beyond the aspirational'
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Bash street kids slug it out for Citizen Windsor
One sentence leaped out of the Whitehall guidance note which accompanies the annual Queen's Speech programme. After dealing at length with the government's yobbashing proposals, the note seamlessly asserted:
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RCN believes staff crisis will result in big pay boost
Nurses and midwives' leaders are hoping for a significant pay rise for the professions to be announced next week, in the light of a report highlighting the crisis in NHS recruitment.
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Broken headsets and Bing Crosby
'In the 1970s I used to do voluntary work for a station with the rather grand-sounding title of the Edinburgh Hospital Broadcasting Service. It broadcast to nine hospitals but it probably had about nine listeners, too. The enduring problem was trying to get the hospital electricians to give any sort ...
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Series debut with a bit of a buzz
HSJ Monographs Evidence-based Practice By Dr Martin Dawes To order call the hotline:01483-303017 22 pages £12.99
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Glaxo Wellcome man gets top BMA job in break with tradition
In a surprise move, one of the top directors from Glaxo Wellcome, who has no medical qualification, is to take over as secretary of the British Medical Association.
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Call for uniformity and improvement of CHD care
Junior health minister Gisela Stuart has called on trusts to improve the care of coronary heart disease patients after the results of a survey of CHD patients showed that a significant minority had an unsatisfactory experience of treatment and that there were major variations between trusts. The independent survey, carried ...