All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-10-15 – Page 3

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Delivering the goods

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Community maternity units have played an important role for women but primary care groups are casting doubt on their future. Elisabeth Baxter and colleagues look at a survey of mothers' and midwives' wishes and at GPs' reactions
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Scottish GPs demand meeting with Galbraith

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

GP leaders in Scotland have demanded an urgent meeting with Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith to raise concerns about primary care trust appointments.
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Physiotherapists disagree over use of terms

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Letters
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Enough is never enough but too little is just too much

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Despite promised cash injections, the NHS is heading towards instability
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Events

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

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Social exclusion programme starts in Wales

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Welsh Office minister Peter Hain has selected eight communities to take part in the Welsh Office's 'people in communities' programme. A development co-ordinator will be appointed in each area to identify the problems leading to soc ia l exclusion , draw up long term action plans and identify funding needs. ...
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Reforms 'could lead to financial instability'

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Finance managers have raised renewed concerns that a lack of guidance on implementing the detail of the government's NHS reforms could lead to financial instability.
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King's Fund finds interpretation services are 'vital'

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

A King's Fund report has concluded that interpretation and advocacy services in primary care are 'vital' for meeting government targets for improving health among ethnic minority communities. The report calls for their 'precarious' funding position to be addressed.
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A poor fit

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Managers fear Northern Ireland's unique experience of joint health and social services may be under threat. Pat Healy reports
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More upheaval set to follow long review of forces hospitals

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Military hospitals are facing further change in the wake of an 18-month review prompted by concerns about staff shortages and morale raised by the defence select committee.
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Messages from the frontline

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

While primary care groups have a lot of support in principle, worries that practices will be reluctant to co-operate with each other remain. Michael Place and Andrew Street analyse the results of a series of workshops
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Guidance gives the go-ahead for Welsh local health groups

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones has given the green light to local health groups by issuing detailed guidance on their role, structure and funding.
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Heading for Reading

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alison Hyde has had enough. After 20 years reporting or working for the NHS, she's moving out of health altogether and, she insists, she has no regrets
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Ministers plan to keep special hospitals open

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ministers want to maintain high security hospitals at Ashworth, Rampton and Broadmoor - but are planning legislation so they can become NHS trusts.
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Winning idea

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Punters in a Wolverhampton betting shop cast an eye over an display provided by Wolverhampton Health Care trust to mark world mental health day. The trust put information up in Ladbroke's shops and Banks's pubs, and hopes to target factories in future.
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Leading lights

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Conservative Party leader William Hague admitted in his keynote address to the conference: 'We have a lot of work to do on health.' Picking up on the themes of Ms Widdecombe's speech, he said: 'The NHS doesn't belong to the Labour Party, it belongs to the people of Britain. We ...
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monitor

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Save-our-hospital types giving you a tough time? Just point 'em in Monitor's direction. The Save Bart's campaigners were so incensed by an item about their attempt to bag a bit of free publicity during the NHS 50th anniversary Songs of Praise programme that they took HSJ to the Press Complaints ...
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Party pieces

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ms Widdecombe emphasised that the Conservatives were still some way off a new health policy. But she placed some important markers to guide her party's thinking.
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in person

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

Professor Elaine Murphy has been appointed chair of the King's Fund's mental health programme, 'Working Together in London'.
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Phoney wars

1998-10-15T00:00:00Z

A landmark ruling in GPs' long battle to be paid for telephone advice could cost health authorities thousands of pounds. But the claims should never have been made, argues Steve Ainsworth