All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-10-14 – Page 3

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    Gone West

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Russians were keen to abandon their state-run health service for a western insurance model but the health of the nation has suffered, with TB and AIDS rife. Wendy Moore reports

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    Northern Ireland lobbying secures winter money

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland's four health and social services boards have won £7.6m to deal with winter pressures, after sustained lobbying. A Department of Health and Social Services spokesperson said the money had come from 'constant monitoring and review processes' which had 'allowed for an adjustment of our financial plans for this ...

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    Standard issue

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The new national service framework for mental health sets out standards without specifying in detail how they should be achieved. Is this a good or bad thing? Laura Donnelly encounters a mixed response

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    monitor

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    It takes a brave man to twist Dobbo's arm - especially with Joe 'the enforcer' McCrea snapping at your ankles. So did he want to be mayor of London all along? Monitor thinks not, and cites in evidence an exchange between His Dobship and Jonathan Dimbleby on the latter's LWT ...

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    Offensive weapons

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The killing machines of modern warfare pose a host of ethical and political questions as well as medical ones, as Tash Shifrin observed at a BMA conference

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    Sins of omission

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Taking action to support carers By Penny Banks and Colin Cheeseman King's Fund 80 pages £9.95

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    Slow start for PCT take-up

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    The first wave of primary care trusts, due to go live next April, may amount to just one 'demonstration site' in each of the eight English regions, according to HSJ sources.

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    in person

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Catherine McLoughlin, chair of the NHS Confederation, becomes chair of St George's Healthcare trust on 1 November. Since 1994, she has been chair of Bromley health authority. She takes over from Dr Elizabeth Vallance, who has chaired the trust since its inception six years ago.

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    Smoking prevention

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    There is no simple answer to stopping young people smoking, but a co-ordinated approach between agencies is the best strategy, argue Rachel Richardson and Amanda Sowden

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    Private thoughts, public service

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Towards the end of the last Conservative government it was a brave NHS manager who openly advocated doing business with the private sector.

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    Protest and survive

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    Patients, power and politics From patients to citizens By Christine Hogg Sage Publications 213 pages £49

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    Shift up

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    A tribunal's finding that nurses were discriminated against suggests trusts should beware when switching to rotating nursing shifts. Rosemary Lloyd and Julie Goulding explain

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-10-14T00:00:00Z

    A tax on the poor, a tax on stupidity - the National Lottery has been called many things, lots of them uncomplimentary, and particularly so a few minutes after 8pm each Saturday. But with the New Opportunities Fund handing out used fivers by the wheelbarrow-load, could some in the NHS ...