All News articles – Page 1926

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    Power back to the people

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    If, as Harold Wilson memorably remarked, a week is a long time in politics, what on earth should we think of 10 years? That is the time it will take to bring the NHS plan to completion. What will screw it up, of course, is what another Harold - Macmillan ...

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    Those answers to HSJ's Christmas quiz in full. . .

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    1.Tony Blair. According to Andrew Rawnsley's book Servants of the People, the chancellor was furious at the prime minister's commitment to raise spending on healthcare as a proportion of national income to the European average.

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    Surely some mistake? The case of Andrew Wall

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    More than 40 chief executives have seen their contracts terminated over the past five years and with many currently seeking to gain work or having returned to work in the NHS, few are willing to talk about their experiences.However, Andrew Wall, who lost his job as chief executive of Bath ...

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    A very interesting post-plan new year to all

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Pace of implementation must quicken as general election looms

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    Watching brief shows its age

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Observing organisations Anxiety, defence and culture in healthcare Edited by RD Hinshelwood and W Skogstad Routledge 175 pages £15.99

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    Benefits of local information on admissions

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    £500m deal for phones and TVs

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Seven companies have been awarded full or provisional licences to provide the NHS with over 150,000 bedside TV and phone systems in a contract which could be worth up to £500m.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    This is the very last Webwatch.When the column started in September 1996, Internet access was a rarity. Few people had seen the worldwide web, let alone used it for work. Most of us had trouble seeing its relevance. Now we are promised wired fridges that order the groceries and let ...

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    in person

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Helen Lewis, an organisational development consultant with the strategic change unit at the Scottish Executive health department, has left to join Frontline Consultants as a senior consultant.

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    Patient proposals questioned

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Confederation has cast doubt over key planks of the government's proposals for patient involvement in the health service.

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    Overview but no plan

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Health Care UK Autumn 2000 The King's Fund Review of Health Policy Edited by John Appleby and Anthony Harrison King's Fund 72 pages £9.99

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    So you think you're normal?

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Non-conformity

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    monitor

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Just as your mind was beginning to make up that long list of well-intentioned new year's resolutions - get out more, take up jogging, run the marathon; damn it, get fit somehow - along comes the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine to make you think twice before you've ...

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    Modern times

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    It was a year of grand plans and private gestures. Mark Crail on how the millennium bugged the NHS

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    Misguided transfer of NHS scrutiny

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Some like it hotter

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Extremes of cold and heat have a deleterious effect on people's health, but climate change may bring healthier winters and more sickly summers. Dominique Florin takes the temperature

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    Jingle hells?

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Being hooked up to the hospital radio station was once considered worse than being tied to an IV drip, but a renaissance in broadcast services may have patients reaching for the headphones. Janet Snell tunes in

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    Mental health white paper will target patient rights

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The long-awaited white paper on the Mental Health Act, due to be published on 19 December, is likely to signal a significant improvement in patients' rights - including better access to an advocate.