All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-11-29
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On the side walk
doctors in management : Successive NHS reorganisations have failed to sweeten the doctor-manager relationship.So why should the latest attempts to end adversarial attitudes be any more successful? Mike Pollard reports
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The final report of Scotland's inquiry into organ retention has recommended a total overhaul of the 1961 Human Tissue Act covering post-mortem and organ retention, which it says is 'vague and uncertain'.The review says all post-mortems should be authorised by relatives, with penalties for breaches.Draft standards on post-mortem and organ ...
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Union does not rule out PPP, MPs told
The Manufacturing, Science and Finance union has told MPs it has no objections to public-private partnerships in the NHS, provided quality and value can be assured.
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Speed merchants
The improvement in response times at certain ambulance trusts has been described as 'a miracle'.Paul Smith sees the benefits of the simple approach
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Sticky labels
When Medway trust became one of the country's reviled 'dirty dozen'no-star establishments, rather than seeing it as a 'failure', the management team drew on widespread support to turn the situation round.Alison Moore reports
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Regions and SHAs jockey for position
Last-minute wrangling at the Department of Health over the shape of regional offices this week looked set to hold up a crucial document outlining NHS bodies' new roles and responsibilities under the Shifting the Balance of Power in the NHS reorganisation.
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Inside the labyrinth
As the Modernisation Agency tours the no-star trusts and conducts dozens of other programmes of change, Laura Donnelly battles her way through the organisation's complex structure in an attempt to pin down its role
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Survival of the fittest
Comment : Re-organisation is proceeding despite bizarre mismatch of staff talent
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HA yields to pressure to save elder-care hospital
West Surrey health authority has decided to keep open the 75-year-old Milford Hospital after local consultation and a vigorous campaign from the Liberal Democrats.
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Public health doctors want SHA level director
Public health doctors are calling for a director post to be created in strategic health authorities in a bid to make 'public health targets as important as waiting lists'.
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GPs gain graduate ENT diploma in outpatient skills
The first 18 GP ear nose and throat specialists have graduated with a diploma from Middlesex University, validated by the Royal College of General Practitioners.The year-long distance-learning course was designed to improve diagnostic skills and allow GPs to carry out procedures otherwise done in an outpatient department.Ram Dhillon, consultant ENT ...