All News articles – Page 1848

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    When actions speak louder than words

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    COMMENT: Problem trust is opportunity for NHS to show its 'modern' credentials

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    THE PERSUADERS No 34

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly guide to healthcare's most influential people

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    Scots slow to accept NHS 24 partnership

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    NEWS

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    Days like this - HSJ 22 August 1991

    2001-08-23T00:00:00Z

    NEWS: Junior doctors'hours. . . Authorities merger. . .Joint ventures with independent sector . . .Hospitals shelved. . .Performance reviews

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    Tale of the unexpected

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    What happens when a tiny cottage hospital learns it is to benefit from a massive legacy? Danny Lee went to Cromer, Norfolk, to find out

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    A winter's tale

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    frontline staff

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    Tipping the scales the right way

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Books

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    THE PERSUADERS

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly guide to healthcare's most influential people

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    in person

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    John Watkinson, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals trust, has been appointed to a new post at the Audit Commission where he will work on issues connected with the NHS plan.

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    Secretaries set to reject unionapproved offer

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Medical secretaries in Scotland are set to reject a national framework offer on their re-grading dispute despite acceptance being recommended by their own union.

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    Unfavourable reference ruled negligent

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Job references for former employees who leave under a cloud need to be handled with care, as a recent case shows.

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    monitor

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Bouncer Milburn has always been a role model for Monitor. And the news that he said 'NO' to feng-shui was all it took for Monitor to realise the new-age pendulum had swung too far. Reverberations of Mr Milburn's brave stand were felt all over the silly season scrum, with BBC ...

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    On a hiding to nothing?

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Hammersmith Hospitals trust is preaching an open culture.So why hasn't it released the results of its breast-screening audit, asks Paul Stephenson Concerns about the choice of Hammersmith Hospitals trust medical director Professor Rory Shaw to chair the National Patient Safety Agency have once again thrown the trust into the spotlight.

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    Going places

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    How can emergency admissions be safeguarded at times of major hospital reorganisation?

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    Events

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks'notice of your event.Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ.Fax:020-7874 0254.

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    Drowning, not waving

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Health academics Kieran Walshe and Judith Smith are not convinced by the government's call for yet another deluge of NHS reform.They wonder what, if anything, it will achieve Ministers and civil servants in the Department of Health probably look back nostalgically to Labour's first term in government in 1997 and ...

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    MS victim wins HA funds to die at home

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    A health authority has agreed to fund home care for a terminally ill man who didn't want to die in hospital.