All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-08-23 – Page 2

  • News

    Running out of excuses

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    COMMENT: West London breast screening service is in need of outside intervention

  • News

    Inequalities paper sketchy on role of local government

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    THIS WEEK

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    Too hot to handle?

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    WARD MANAGERS: People who manage wards feel their accountability is being increased while their control of resources is being diminished. Claire Laurent reports

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    Turning up the heat

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: Since devolution, senior health service managers are ever more likely to receive a grilling from a government committee, and be asked to justify every action.Can they prepare for this, or is it a case of practice makes perfect? Jennifer Truela

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    High street lows

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    PHARMACY SERVICES: Do the local pharmaceutical pilots spell the end for the community pharmacy? Richard Lewis investigates

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    SOCIAL INSURANCE

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    DATA BRIEFING: What would happen if the UK moved from a tax-based health system to one that is insurance based? John Appleby points out some of the misinformation being peddled by the campaigners

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    Photograph shows why we joined the NHS

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    LETTERS

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    If looks could kill

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: The number of organisations jostling for the right to audit parts of the NHS has reached epidemic proportions.But if the future brings a cull, where will the knife fall? Lyn Whitfield takes a look

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    Paying the list price

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: A clinical governance review report highlighted a catalogue of serious flaws in the management of Epsom and St Helier trust and, as Maura Thompson reports, someone had to be held accountable

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    MONITOR

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    Language is an ever-evolving phenomenon, as Monitor is well aware. Back in the good old days, regional chairs used to 'rock around the clock' and 'jive on daddio' at the IHSM disco.

  • News

    IN PERSON

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has appointed Dr Andrew McCulloch as its head of policy, from October 2001.He has been a senior adviser at the centre for the last five years, and was a senior civil servant with responsibility for mental health policy at the Department of Health from ...

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    Soul survivors

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    SPIRITUAL CARE: Meeting spiritual needs is a crucial aspect of caring for elderly people. But do staff in care homes understand what is meant by the term, and do they accept responsibility for it? Helen Orchard and David Clark investigate