All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-12-12 – Page 4

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    Research warns over PCG size

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Primary care groups covering 100,000 patients may be too big to produce the loyalty and cohesion needed for an innovative, locally focused service, a report on a flagship total purchasing project has concluded.

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    in person

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Royal Berkshire Ambulance trust also has two new non-executive directors. They are Kenrick Sealy, a management consultant and nurse adviser, and Ian Mihell, a retired local authority manager.

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    Praise be

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Delegates at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual conference heard health minister Alan Milburn extol the virtues of finance staff, while emphasising their 'key role' in the year ahead. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    Taking the pressure off

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Ideas from the workshops

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    Putting it Right: the proposals

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    12 local hospitals providing day surgery, outpatient and diagnostic services, a local accident unit, telemedicine and GP beds.

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    Quasi for you

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    A revolution in social policy: quasi-market reforms in the 1990s Edited by Will Bartlett, Jenny Roberts and Julian Le Grand The Policy Press 341 pages £16.95

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    Reconfiguration to slash Welsh trusts

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Welsh secretary Alun Michael has announced that the number of Welsh trusts will be slashed from 26 to 16 on 1 April.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    As chair of the BSE Inquiry, Sir Nicholas Phillips has an illuminating final question he asks every official witness: 'As a result of what you have learned about BSE or CJD,' he inquires, 'have you stopped eating beef?' It may say something about former health ministers that so far none ...