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Called to account
The Audit Commission is due for a review of its work over the past five years. Mark Crail reports
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Christmas 'cancelled' as IT bug panic bites across NHS
Hospitals are set to cancel Christmas leave for many staff next year to guard against potential disaster from the millennium IT bug.
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SCODA: make drugs action a corporate goal
A coalition of drugs services has called for action against drug abuse to become a 'corporate goal' for the NHS.
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Actuaries call for national health indices
The government should introduce new 'national health indices' to measure progress in cutting health inequalities, the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries said last week.
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Ambulance manager fired after inquiry
One manager has been sacked and another 'exonerated' following an internal inquiry by London Ambulance Service trust linked to the unfair dismissals of two crew members.
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Careering ahead
What drives people to join the NHS management training scheme and how do they see a career in management working out in the post-white paper world? Some of those on the scheme spoke to the Journal
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All for a guinea a week
Only the sickest patients could hope for a real egg when hospitals had to feed patients on 21 shillings a week. Bernadette Friend recalls rationing and racketeering in the early NHS
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The appliance of compliance
Fine words are being written into the new quality framework, but managers want to know what sanctions there will be to back them. Pat Healy reports
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Professional approaches
Designating cancer units requires time, tact and training. Liz Scott and colleagues describe one system
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Health secretary is asked to stop closures
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been urged to stop the closure of continuing care beds at a London hospital because the community health council says the consultation process was 'inadequate'.
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In Brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association has welcomed a highly critical report on Britain's two immigration detention centres by the chief inspector of prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham. It identified gaps in basic healthcare and recommended an audit of healthcare needs.
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In Brief: Healthcare Financial Management Association
An extraordinary general meeting of the Healthcare Financial Management Association has agreed rule changes that will allow it to recruit a broader membership.
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Values-added attack
Managers have to make moral choices, the NHS's high-flying trainees were told at their conference. Mark Crail reports
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Hospitals Authority
Providing a modern ambulance service was a priority for the new Hospitals Authority, which took charge of the fleet of 64 ambulances in Northern Ireland in 1949. You can read all about it in a book on the history of the health services in the province, Curing & Caring by ...
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Nurses jeer as Dobson says sorry for staged pay award
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week apologised for staging the nurses' pay award, but faced boos and jeers from angry delegates at the Royal College of Nursing congress.
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Baby deaths surgeon stands by 'switch' operation
The Bristol baby deaths inquiry last week heard a surgeon dismiss as 'hypothesis' claims that babies' lives could have been saved if he had learned better operating techniques earlier.