All Health Service Journal articles in 2000-12-07 – Page 3

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    MPs' group to push for improved maternity services

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Julia Drown MP has launched the all-party parliamentary maternity group, set up to campaign for improvements in maternity services. The group, launched last week with the backing of Royal College of Midwives general secretary Karlene Davis, will be pressing the government to set national standards in maternity services to ensure ...

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    NICE 'must listen to patients' on schizophrenia guidelines

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Campaigners have challenged the National Institute for Clinical Excellence not to ignore the views of people with mental health problems in its forthcoming schizophrenia treatment guidelines and assessment of antipsychotic drugs.

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    'Investing for health' plans to lower NI mortality rate

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    NHS managers will be expected to produce 'health and well-being investment plans' in a bid to rid Northern Ireland of some of the highest mortality and morbidity rates in the world, health minister Bairbre de Brun has announced.

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    Job-limbo woman sues

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A hospital consultant is suing the Scottish health trust that made her redundant after a five-year dispute.

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    monitor

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Monitor hates to be the bearer of bad tidings. But growing evidence confirming the burgeoning sense of humour at Denham Towers gave Monitor an idea.

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    Share option

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    One in three people will develop cancer. One in four will die from it. But a year after its formation, the Cancer Services Collaborative seems to offer significant hope for faster and better patient care.

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    Virtually perfect

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The NHS could soon have an electronic library if a new pilot works out. But will it ever be 'one of the great libraries of the world', wonders Lyn Whitfield

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    in person

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Management consultant Martin Hugh Vandersteen has been appointed chair of Barts and the London trust.He takes over from board member Elsie Gilding, who has been acting chair for four months.

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    Pressure is on

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    To overcome the shortage of physiotherapists, the UK is increasingly reliant on recruiting from overseas. But can it be done ethically? James Buchan reports

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    Stealing the show

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Three-quarters of all new hospitals are built through PFI - so why is it that the public sector's payback costs are clouded in secrecy? John Mair battles for exposure

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    If your nest egg is tied up in the NHS Pensions Agency, you may not be happy to discover that it managed a 5.6 per cent cut in the efficiency with which it used its resources last year, and that it is still only half way through reviewing the cases ...