All News articles – Page 2091

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    Kids' stuff

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Children watch as a section of a new nursery arrives at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.

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    Hear here

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    visitor Mrs Blake has a hearing test during an open afternoon at Royal Hampshire County Hospital's audiology department. Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare trust audiology services manager Helen Martin said the event was organised as part of deaf awareness week to' provide an opportunity to see what we do and increase ...

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    GADFLY

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    An everyday story of trust folk, appearing fortnightly Tarantino goes to the press, while everyone else speculates about the aftermath of the downfall of the terrible two. . .

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    I've started so I'll finish

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    He's back. The architect of the New NHS, Alan Milburn, steps into Frank Dobson's shoes as health secretary just as pressure to deliver on pledges mounts. Patrick Butler reports

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    Events

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    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: 0171-874 0254.

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    Schizophrenia patients face denial of new drug treatments

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    People with schizophrenia could be denied modern drugs as a first-line treatment under controversial draft guidelines commissioned by the Department of Health.

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    Milburn summit delays heart strategy

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn has ordered a sharper focus on cutting waiting times for heart disease and cancer patients, but insists that he is not abandoning the government's commitment to hitting its general election waiting-list pledge.

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    Pay deal 'is key to keeping nurses in NHS'

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Nurses need a 'substantial' pay rise if the NHS is to retain the experienced staff needed to carry out the government's modernisation programme, the Royal College of Nursing said this week.

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    Days like this

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    HAs demand emergency cash. . . Clarke hints at cash deal. . .Complaints system slammed. . . Private hospital 'would hit NHS recruitment'. . .

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    A dance to the music of time

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    The detox unit at Holloway women's prison is offering dance therapy to women trying to withdraw from hard drugs or alcohol addiction. Lucy Goodison and Helen Schafer explain

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    Co-operative society

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Out-of-hours care has begun to involve not just doctors but the whole primary healthcare team. Jeremy Dale and Chris Salisbury argue that services need to change even more - but how?

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    Super Cooper

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    A rising star, with a political CV to kill for and a very New Labour marriage, Yvette Cooper has the perfect background for Blair's ministerial team. But the public health remit may not be easy, writes Mark Crail

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    Downgrading of public health post condemned as 'setback'

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    A downgrading of the public health minister post has been condemned as a 'severe setback'.

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    Social climbers

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    How effective are links between primary care groups and social services? Bob Hudson and Helen Lewis report on a national survey

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    Lancaster University chosen for 'supermanagers' programme

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Lancaster University has been chosen to run a new development programme for senior chief executives as part of the NHS Executive's plan to create a cadre of supermanagers.

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    Ex-finance chief ordered to pay up for 'vexation'

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    The former finance director of a Glasgow trust has been ordered to pay £500 expenses to the trust after an employment tribunal ruled that he had acted 'vexatiously or unreasonably' in his handling of the case.

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    Region defends chief in helicopter delay row

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Executive's North West regional office has vigorously defended an ambulance trust chief executive accused of delaying an emergency helicopter flight for a critically ill patient.

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    Short cuts: Cash crisis looms for military hospital services

    1999-10-21T00:00:00Z

    Military hospital services are facing a cash shortage against a 'background of current clinical manpower shortages and increasing operational demands', defence chiefs have warned. In its annual business plan, the Defence Secondary Care Agency admits it has overspent its £113m budget by £2.5m last year, while it is facing a ...