All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-11-12 – Page 3
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Short cuts Edinburgh Healthcare
Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust is investing £1 million in setting up a 16 bed nursing home, in the grounds of Corstorphine hospital and run and staffed by the NHS, to provide accommodation for people with learning disabilities who are moving out of Gogarurn hospital, which is due to close in ...
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Short cuts Improved surveillance
Improved surveillance and reporting of foodborne viral infection, along with good hygiene practice, are called for in a report from the Departments of Health and Agriculture. Report by the Advisory Committee on Microbiolical Safety of Food, £17.50, Stationery Office.
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Distinct improvement
The Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards is to lose its in-built medical majority, although some doubt this goes far enough to justify the system, reports Mark Crail
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Pro-family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
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New family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
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Tailoring expected in guidance on working time for NHS managers
The NHS Executive is expected to recommend that all health service managers should be covered by the European working time directive, on which an advance letter is due next Thursday.
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'No win no fee' stakes raised
The ink had hardly dried on judgments in three House of Lords cases which will increase damages awards by up to one-third in big negligence cases, when the Lord Chancellor decided on another reform which will mean higher legal costs for the NHS.
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Take it from the top: Janet Snell gathers a range of views from health managers
Philip Sands, director of corporate strategy, Calderdale and Kirklees health authority
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The government's response to Utting: main points
All children entering care to be offered a health assessment.
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Hit or myth
It is a myth that managers motivate their staff. Surely, says Robert Keys, it's the other way round
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Lawyers at large
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99
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A life in the theatre: survey results
All but one of the trusts identified current nursing and operating department assistant staff vacancies in their theatres. The number of vacancies reported ranged from four to 26 - equivalent to 10 per cent overall.
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The third man
John Hutton is the third member of a now influential political triumvirate. Patrick Butler reports on the new junior health minister's rise to power
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monitor
A health authority chief executive who probably wishes to remain nameless reveals the latest government thinking on a new system of patient- centred PCGs. 'The core of the new system will be the establishment of patient consultative groups,' according to a secret document he has helpfully sent to Monitor. Every ...
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Theatre people
Cutting waiting lists depends on high levels of overtime by operating theatre staff, but this is no long-term solution to persistent shortages. Jonathan Edgar and colleagues report on a survey
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Professionals with a purpose
'Lengths of stay and waiting lists are ideal measurements, easy to count and to change; kindness and caring are virtually impossible to identify or to measure, so they have largely disappeared from the NHS lexicon'
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Settling in
The NHS is being urged both to improve access to healthcare for refugees and to integrate more refugee doctors into the service. Barbara Millar reports
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