All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-11-05 – Page 2

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    Doctors to lose merit cash for misconduct

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Top hospital doctors face the loss of distinction awards worth up to £56,000 a year if the conduct of their personal or professional lives 'undermines confidence' in the system, guidance issued to the NHS this week confirms.

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    DoH circular will encourage joint work by health and social services to protect children in care

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health is about to issue a circular telling health authorities and trusts how to work with local authorities to improve services for children in need or in care.

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    Care propellers

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The Dutch are driving forward ambitious, if underfunded, plans for a national, integrated network of trauma care - complete with helicopters. Tony Sheldon reports

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    Ombudsman in call for more payouts to complainants

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Health service commissioner Michael Buckley has said he would like to see more financial compensation paid to patients whose complaints about the NHS are upheld.

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    Call to end rationing in ovarian chemotherapy

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    More than 100 MPs have backed calls for urgent action to give equal access to the most effective chemotherapy treatment for ovarian cancer after a survey alleged most health authorities are rationing the treatment.

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    Boning up on London's past

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The Museum of London's new exhibition tells the capital's history through the remains of its ancestors. Mark Crail found it fascinating

  • News

    Boning up on London's past

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The Museum of London's new exhibition tells the capital's history through the remains of its ancestors. Mark Crail found it fascinating

  • News

    Boning up on London's past

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The Museum of London's new exhibition tells the capital's history through the remains of its ancestors. Mark Crail found it fascinating

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    Hospital beds

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The UK has been losing more beds than almost every other OECD country since 1979. John Appleby says that throughput could now compromise quality of care

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    Barred from help

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The Michael Stone case underlined the link between mental illness and crime, but what can be done to help ex-offenders with psychiatric problems? Lynn Eaton reports

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    Hopes hang on Hutton Mental health policy analysts ministerial changes with anxiety

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    As any senior civil servant will tell you, a change of minister can have a more drastic effect on a department than a change of government. So mental health policy analysts are holding their breath with the arrival of John Hutton to succeed Paul Boateng as junior health minister. Labour's ...

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    Why no amount of fixing can prevent the conspiracy theory

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Your cover feature on the role of the health service commissioner ('The fixer', 8 October) misses the point in relation to people's continued dissatisfaction with the NHS complaints procedures.

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    Ahead of the field

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Are the health needs of people who live in the countryside on the government's agenda at last? Janet Snell reports on a recent forum

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    Action points for employers

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Establish which employees the regulations apply to, especially those who do not provide a 'continuous service' or are not directly involved in patient care.

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    MPs act on 'missing link' between managersds; MPs act after evidence of 'poor communication' across the NHS

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    MPs are to tackle 'poor communication' between managers and frontline clinical staff in a wide-ranging inquiry into the NHS workforce.

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    The times they are a-changin'

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The working time directive will cost the NHS millions and impose heavy new responsibilities on employers. John Northrop and Keith Hearn explain

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    Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September)

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Dr JAF Napier of the Welsh Blood Service, who confuses income and salary (Letters, 24 September), urges that I be burnt at the stake for suggesting half of all consultants earn more than the average of £100,000. It is, of course, possible that the private practice gravy-train slows significantly after ...

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    Chancellor finds extra £250m to cope with winter pressures

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Gordon Brown found an extra £250m 'winter cash' for the NHS in his pre-budget statement on Tuesday.

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    I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October).

    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest Steve Ainsworth's article 'Phoney wars' (15 October). Although the original intention of the writers of the appropriate part of the Statement of Fees and Allowances (SFA or 'Red Book') was that 'telephone advice' would not attract a fee, it is unimportant as the wording did not ...

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    1998-11-05T00:00:00Z

    The Government's policy of charging for some social care services might be reviewed if it could be proved that charging was 'cost ineffective,' a senior Department of Health official has suggested.