News – Page 2796
-
News
Nice work: jobs on-line
HSJ's web site takes a significant step forward today with the launch of HSJ Jobs Plus, offering its 24,000 registered users the chance to access full-text advertisements for jobs, tenders and courses and conferences online. The fully searchable database, covering every job advertised in HSJ, will also include a 'job ...
-
News
Failed software fiasco costs hospital £64,000
A Trent hospital has written off nearly £64,000 because a specialist computer package was not up to the job.
-
News
A bigger splash
Simon Carpenter from Avon health promotion services holds one of the residents of the newly enlarged pond in the nature reserve at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital.
-
News
Jobs at risk as trusts 'face £100m crisis'
Patient services and jobs are at risk as London trusts face a £75m cash crisis, figures obtained by HSJ show.
-
News
Indicators launched for Wales
Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones has launched the country's first set of clinical indicators for hospitals.
-
News
Days like this
Mellor shown up by his family's GP... but tells managers white paper proposals are open for debate... Scottish Labour MPs claim Tories stole their ideas... Nurses oppose regional pay
-
News
At the midnight hour
The government's refusal to fund a national pay deal for the millennium holiday is ruining the party for human resources managers. Barbara Millar reports
-
News
Culture club: problem prevention
Despite cynicism from some doctors, 'more were inspired than usual' about the chance to 'get the culture right', chief medical officer Professor Liam Donaldson told delegates.
-
News
What will NICE do?
Appraise and issue guidelines on management of diseases and use of particular drugs or interventions.
-
News
Streets ahead
A project with a GP surgery is providing healthcare for homeless people who often can't get access to it. But its funding is in danger, writes Kaye McIntosh
-
News
Time to set a finishing line Ministers should say what the NHS reforms must achieve in the long term
Prime minister Tony Blair made his first foray into the health service since last year's NHS 50th anniversary this week (see news, pages 2-3). His appearance to launch 20 new 'walk-in centres' and announce a dramatically widened NHS Direct demonstrates how seriously this government takes primary care reform.
-
News
WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
The first 'working draft' map of the human gene sequence will be in the public domain by February 2000. By then, according to scientists in the UK and US working on the project, the position of 90 per cent of the 3 billion letters or bases that make up the ...