All News articles – Page 1850

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    'Whistleblower' claim against London trust

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    A clinical governance manager has launched a tribunal case against a major teaching hospital in one of the first cases under new 'whistleblowing' legislation.

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    'Scapegoat'claim after Tayside vote

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    The chair of Scotland's most troubled health body, NHS Tayside, has denied he was put under pressure to act over individuals named in a damning report on the area's health services.

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    Vision from afar

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    open space

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    Triumph for best practice as A&E trolley waits are slashed by NPAT

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Trolley waits at 16 accident and emergency departments have been slashed through an initiative headed by the National Patient Access Team.

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    Morale lifts at troubled Oxford A&E

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Commission for Health Improvement reviewers last week visited the troubled accident and emergency department at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where staff are reporting improvements in morale.

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    Devious ways to get shot of union activists without even a whimper

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    MACHIAVELLI RETURNS FOR THE SUMMER WITH HIS BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO MANAGING THE NHS

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    Evolution not abolition for CHCs

    2001-08-16T00:00:00Z

    Government proposals for a revamped patient and public involvement system will see a shift in emphasis from the abolition of community health councils to a 'transfer' of their responsibilities, HSJ understands.

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    Pounds, shillings and sense

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    OPEN SPACE: Trusts should be able to spend money according to their own priorities, free from central control, says Tom Caulcott

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    Route planner

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: Care trusts are the preferred model for joint working between health and social services.Or are they? Paul Stephenson reports

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    A sense of place

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    BOOKS

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    Picking up the pieces

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: Shifting the Balance has appeared at last, showing how all the structural changes in the NHS 'jigsaw'fit together.Laura Donnelly compares the final cut with an earlier draft, leaked exclusively to HSJ

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    IN PERSON

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    Dr Jane Collins has been appointed chief executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children trust.A consultant paediatric neurologist, she was formerly director of clinical services at Great Ormond Street.

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    POINT OF ORDER

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    THIS WEEK

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    MONITOR

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    One of Monitor's readers (hello there! ) has written in to draw attention to some truly wonderful goal-setting by your friends and Monitor's at the Department of Stealth. Now they are sorting out equal opportunities so that everybody - even ladies and people from outside Surrey - can get a ...

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    Stories in the making

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    JOINT WORKING: Joint working means different things to different people but the idea is hemmed in by misconceptions, argue Sally Bigwood and John Lucy.They set out to explode some myths

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    NHS restructure is a 'licence to meddle'

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    THIS WEEK

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    The old grey superheroes

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    NEWS FOCUS: Managers want to do good, too.But the bean-counters and the clinicians do not always see eye to eye.Paul Smith reports on research into what motivates managers and medics

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    Getting won over

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    CONSULTANT APPRAISAL: Annual appraisal for all consultants became mandatory in April.But some trusts find schemes difficult to set up.Alison Moore reports

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    GENERATION GAME

    2001-08-02T00:00:00Z

    NEWS