All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-11-01
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in person
Dallas Ariotti, currently director of clinical governance and information for University Hospital Birmingham trust, has been appointed to a new post as director of performance at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital trust. A former nurse, Ms Ariotti's previous roles have included that of principal adviser to the health minister in ...
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A study on ambulance response times has found that 59 per cent of people using the 999 service in East Anglia over-estimated the time they actually waited for an emergency ambulance. Three thousand patients, carers and relatives were interviewed by East Anglian Ambulance trust and Anglia Polytechnic University. Only 17 ...
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monitor
Monitor has remained fairly silent on the topic of international terrorism, feeling, unusually, somewhat superfluous to the debate. But this week the GP press made Monitor realise that HSJ is letting down its readers by failing to examine its stories in the light of world events. GP magazine showed how ...
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Extra time
Tony Blair has famously pledged to bring health spending up to European levels. But have the better resources put healthcare on the Continent in a different league to the UK's? And, ask John Appleby and Sean Boyle, even if comparable funding were delivere
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Dear Mel. . .
Following the purchase of the heart hospital by University College London Hospitals trust, have you any views on this type of nationalisation ?
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Days like this
Waldegrave under fire. . . Tobacco row. . .Patient's Charter introduces new rights. . .
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Lies, damned lies and spinners
wait watcher What can we make of the Department of Health's waiting-list statistics or, more specifically, their nonappearance? Professor John Yates asks whether it is a case of government spin or plain lies
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PFI updates cost trust millions
A private finance initiative hospital which opened seven months ago has been forced to undergo a redesign to meet the requirements of the NHS plan.