All East Midlands articles – Page 80

  • News

    Unresolved inquiries - breakdown by strategic health authority

    2007-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Hsj.co.uk's investigation found there are 27 outstanding cases where recommendations following a murder or manslaughter by a mental health patient have not yet been fully implemented.

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    Aborted PFI could 'end up in court'

    2007-07-26T00:00:00Z

    The collapse of a private finance initiative worth more than £900m could see both sides fighting in court to recover money.

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    News analysis: Taking the private pennies - without the public grief

    2007-04-05T09:35:05Z

    NHS hospitals looking to increase their private work can run into sticky political and publicity-related situations. So how far can they go, asks Alison Moore

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    Trust withdraws GP letter

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A trust has been ordered to retract a letter suggesting patients pay for surgery if they do not want to wait four-and-a-half months for it.

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    Eight SHAs off course on smoking

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Just two out of the 10 strategic health authorities have predicted they will meet this year's smoking cessation targets, which were due to be hit by the end of last week.

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    News analysis: time to give PECs the muscle to make a real difference

    2006-10-25T00:00:00Z

    Professional executive committees have been weighed down by corporate affairs and unable to influence strategy and clinical design, so the DoH's decision to review them has been widely welcomed. But what will the new PECs look like? Daloni Carlisle finds out

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    New chief for scandal trust

    2006-10-05T00:00:00Z

    A new chief executive has been parachuted into a trust at the centre of a waiting-list scandal.

  • News

    in person

    1999-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Mike Handy, former chief executive of Nottinghamshire Ambulance Service trust, has been appointed chief executive of East Midlands Ambulance Service trust. He has been acting chief executive of the organisation since it was created in April.

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    Flight paths

    1999-06-03T00:00:00Z

    refugee care

  • News

    Flight paths

    1999-06-03T00:00:00Z

    refugee care: Health services have been gearing up to help refugees from Kosovo - and are learning from experience how best to support often traumatised people. Bernadette Friend reports

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    refugee care

    1999-06-03T00:00:00Z

    'It's the unknown that is difficult': waiting at the airport

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    'It's the unknown that is difficult': waiting at the airport

    1999-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Dr Philip Monk, consultant in public health with Leicestershire health authority, had 48 hours' notice that a plane with refugees from the Balkans would be arriving at East Midlands airport.

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    in person

    1999-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Tees and North East Yorkshire trust has seven board-level appointments. Moira Britton, who headed the former South Tees Community and Mental Health trust, is chief executive of the new trust. She is joined by chair Eileen Grace, a Labour councillor and deputy leader of Middlesbrough council. Dr Kathryn Gillen, Eleanor ...

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    in person

    1999-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Two non-executive directors have also been appointed to Chester and Halton Community trust. Arthur Cole is a retired civil servant and borough councillor and Marjorie Kostick is a chartered accountant.

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    Rampton's 'partner' takes over East Midlands forensic health

    1999-05-06T00:00:00Z

    A Nottinghamshire trust already in ‘partnership’ with high security Rampton Hospital has taken over the running of the East Midlands regional forensic health service.

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    Executive steps in to prevent GP 'carve-up'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A regional office has stepped in to prevent a health authority paying GPs to manage a primary care group instead of appointing a chief executive.

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    Ambulance trust merger hit by 'mistrust'

    1998-09-17T00:00:00Z

    'Tension and mistrust' is creeping into merger plans involving three trusts in the east Midlands, according to the chief executives involved.

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    The shape of things to come

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The NHS regions are being redrawn with effects for the whole of the NHS, and the power of central government.

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    Nurses in court for back wages

    1998-08-13T00:00:00Z

    A union has launched High Court action on behalf of nurses to recoup more than 1m in back pay. Unison claims that 63 nurses were denied a right of appeal on their regrading when they were employed 10 years ago by the former North Derbyshire district health authority.