All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-02-08 – Page 3

  • News

    Why should overloaded GPs take on yet more?

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Here's looking at you, kid

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The NHS should welcome local authority scrutiny committees monitoring its services. Only politics and ignorance are preventing it from doing so, says Paul Corrigan

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    Hic hic hooray

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The government may at last be getting somewhere with its national strategy on alcohol misuse - but what are A&E staff already doing to manage the problems they encounter? Lynn Eaton reports

  • News

    Improving working lives starts with doing less

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Suspended judgement

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    A nursing home designed with stakeholder input exposed patient advocates to the highs and lows of bringing a project to fruition, as Simon Jones and Paul Mercer report

  • News

    Who wants to know?

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Do primary care groups and trusts have the resources and opportunities to commission research? And if they do, should they, asks Bonnie Sibbald

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    Long and winding road

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Refugee doctors could be a valuable resource for the NHS. But they face huge hurdles, including being charged for placements. Barbara Millar reports

  • News

    RCN outlines manifesto wish-list

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of Nursing has outlined its manifesto calling on the next government to provide funding for free long-term nursing care, tackle student nurse hardship and improve familyfriendly practices.

  • News

    monitor

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Monitor has been watching the appointment of our new top nurse - a lady and an American! - with excitement. Those RCN members not mutinously muttering 'who she?' about their new American general secretary Beverly Malone seem keen to offer themselves as her new best friend. The RCN's website discussion ...

  • News

    Over the threshold

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...

  • News

    in person

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Dr Bobbie Jacobson has been appointed head of the Public Health Observatory for London. Set up last year, the observatory will monitor strategies to improve health and reduce inequalities. She was formerly director of public health at East London and the City health authority.

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    THE PERSUADERS

    2001-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Name: Elizabeth Manero Job: Chair, London Health Link - the umbrella body for the capital's community health councils.