All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-10-01 – Page 2

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    Mental health groups

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Mental health groups have moved to distance themselves from junior health minister Paul Boateng's announcement that a review of the Mental Health Act will mean forced medical treatment in the community.

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    Heretic

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    How the NHS must take a new approach to clinical litigation - and prove that it doesn't need lawyers to see justice done

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    Joys of the single life

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Nearly half the general practices in London consist of one doctor. Jeremy Davies spoke to a selection about their reasons for going solo.

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    Take it up with the kipper

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    It's easy to make jokes about managerial incompetence - and note how most management jokes are derogatory.1 'Mushroom management' became an NHS cliche in the 1980s, with managers claiming they were kept in the dark. Now there are seagulls and kippers. The former fly in, dump all over the workers ...

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    LIZ in a tizz

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Set up to close the primary care service gap between London and the rest of the country, the LIZ programme has achieved little beyond improved premises. And, say Richard Lewis and Susan Williams, the capital's underperformance still needs urgent attention

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    Monitor

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Does Monitor detect a split in the Tory front bench health team? Why, only last week, Alan Duncan turned down a much-coveted opportunity to contribute to HSJ's On the Record column on the grounds that such things were 'too trivial'. And then, before you know it, up pops Ann Widdecombe ...

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    Phoney wars

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    When GPs were told they could no longer claim payment for giving telephone advice, they were up in arms. But Steve Ainsworth says they should never have been claiming in the first place

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    POLITICS

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The MPs knew as well as anyone else that some sort of showdown was coming over the dear old blood transfusion service ever since the National Blood Authority swept away the 50-year-old patchwork five years ago last week. In the AIDS era blood is a sensitive as well as symbolic ...

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    Qualified support

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The NHS human resources strategy was broadly welcomed at the HR managers' conference last week. But funding, coercion from the centre and consistency of standards were some of the concerns. Barbara Millar and Mark Crail report

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    Social science

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The economics of social spending 2nd edition Edited by Howard Glennerster and John Hills Oxford University Press 363 pages 40

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    Shortcuts

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Welsh secretary Ron Davies has issued a consultation paper asking for views on priorities for public spending in Wales. It acknowledges NHS Wales' 24bn budget - a third of the Welsh Office total - is 'under substantial pressure' but points out that 'any additions to one (area of spending) will ...

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    'People must beware of miracle cures and medical offers on the Internet,' warns John Bridgeman, director general of the Office of Fair Trading. 'If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.' Sound advice.