All Health Service Journal articles in 1999-10-28 – Page 3

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    Days like this

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Clarke stresses morale. . . Strategy to update staff. . . 'Superhospital' dropped. . . Ambulance crisis. . . HEA in report row. . . Mellor's disappointment. . .

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    Package deals with drug firms on horizon

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Health commissioners will soon be able to enter into US-style package deals with pharmaceutical companies to tackle a range of conditions including asthma, diabetes and heart disease.

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    Dependable but not so modern

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Quality improvements in healthcare

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    We deserve to be seen

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    A distant Finnish line

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    WALKING TALL

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    Events

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Primary care best practice

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    Do you wanna be in my gang?

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    This week's annual social services conference should be the last, argues Stephen Burke. It's time to include health and social care in a single event

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    Taken up a peg or two: glamorous Mr Marples

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Lightly grilled

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Only the gentlest heat was turned on health minister John Denham at the distinctly on-message New Health Network's conference. Kaye McIntosh reports

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    Taking the middle ground

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Intermediate care models in practice

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    RCN members hit out at Hancock's high salary

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Royal College of Nursing members attacked the high salary of general secretary Christine Hancock and other senior staff at their annual general meeting last week.

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    Huge survival rate variations

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Returns to the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre show that 'on average one of every five ICU patients die on the unit', rising to 'one in three when subsequent deaths on the wards are included'.

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    Are you listening to me?

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    England's first joint health and social care trust still has to convince users it works, reports Pat Healy

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    Living in the past

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    The reorganised National Health Service

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    Maiden over?

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    The NHS's masculine style misses out on female strengths, leadership experts argue. They want to see a new breed of 'hybrid managers' batting for the health service. Carol Harris reports

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    Monitor

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Monitor would like to reassure anyone hanging around Heathrow Airport recently that the finance director of the NHS does not normally wander round clutching a Zulu shield. It's just that Colin Reeves had to stand in for Dobbo at short notice on a trip to sell South Africa's health service ...

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    Smarty pants

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Dr David Torgerson, senior research fellow at York University, and research nurse Ruth Hildreth displaying a pair of SafeHip shock-absorbing underwear, which has been developed to protect people at risk of fractured neck of femur. They are seeking 4,500 volunteers for a long-term trial to test the effectiveness of the ...

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    Performance pay 'will not work'

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Offering NHS managers financial inducements to improve performance will not work and could be divisive, a study on motivating senior public servants has found.

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    In person

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Dianne Jeffrey has been reappointed chair of Community Health Care Service (North Derbyshire) trust, a post she has held since it was established in 1994. She is also a trustee of the NHS Confederation and is its regional lead for Trent.