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PIC DOBBO WITH BAGS OF NHS 50p PIECES
Imagine the surprise of HSJ reader Darren Archer when he came across one of those NHS 50th birthday 50p pieces while visiting London. Well, how many have you seen? Imagine his further surprise when he tried to use it to pay his bus fair to Westminster, only to be told, ...
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29 October 1948
A gastro-enteritis flying squad has been set up by Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. It is available for any hospital which finds itself in difficulties; it is staffed by trained nurses and headed by a doctor specialising in the work. The squad will come fully equipped, and is ...
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Shift workers
The debate about power, responsibility and accountability between chief executives and consultants has been raging ever since the changes in the structure and organisation of the NHS first carried out in response to the Girths reforms in the late 1980s. The new doctrine of clinical governance will effect a fundamental ...
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In the firing line
Decades of service to the NHS are no longer any protection against redundancy. And many managers feel they have been poorly treated in the process. Barbara Millar reports.
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Redundancy
In 22 years' work in human resources, Ian Chalmers has been made redundant four times. Three of those occasions came when he was working for private sector companies. He has also seen his employment in the NHS threatened twice by organisational change.
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Opportunities knock
If the NHS really is an equal opportunities employer, surely it is unnecessary to say so in job advertisements, argues Steve Ainsworth
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Review shows most people against limiting NHS
Most people in Britain oppose moves to limit the NHS to a 'safety-net service', according to a review published by the King's Fund.
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Prescriptions top 2 million each working day
The Prescription Pricing Authority dealt with more than 2 million prescriptions on each working day of the 1997-98 financial year, according to its annual report. The number of prescriptions rose by just under 4 per cent to 504 million, with each patient obtaining an average of nearly 10 prescriptions over ...
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Nutrition of elderly people improved over 25 years
The first national dietary survey of the over-65 age group for 25 years has found that nutrition has improved over the last quarter of a century, but elderly people still tend to suffer from poor oral hygiene. The 1,700 people surveyed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food met ...
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NHS audit move to Scottish parliament opposed
Scotland's Accounts Commission says proposals to transfer NHS auditing to the Scottish parliament's auditor general 'could create unnecessary disruption' and run counter to standards elsewhere in the UK. The commission is resisting plans put forward by the Financial Issues Advisory Group - set up to advise the government on issues ...
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Teenage mothers not 'from deprived group of myth'
Teenage mothers come from a wide variety of backgrounds and are not the deprived group of popular mythology, researchers argued last week. A Policy Studies Institute report, published days after former prime minister Baroness Thatcher launched an attack on single parents, says young mothers 'should not be stigmatised' and calls ...
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Minister announces 1m for Llandough orthopaedics
Welsh health minister Jon Owen Jones has announced 1m extra funding for Llandough Hospital and Community trust to improve wards and the orthopaedic outpatient department. The money follows the transfer of orthopaedic services to Llandough Hospital from Prince of Wales Hospital, Rhydlafar.
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Health visitors scoop modernisation fund grant
Health visitors have won 1m from the NHS modernisation fund to develop new ways of working. Public health minister Tessa Jowell said the health visitors' share of the 5bn pot would be used to 'build practice on the clear evidence of what works'. Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine ...
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Remember the halcyon days when Dobbo could drop a personal letter to a million NHS staff asking for suggestions
Remember the halcyon days when Dobbo could drop a personal letter to a million NHS staff asking for suggestions - and not be overwhelmed with anatomically inventive ideas about where to stick it? You may, but the Department of Health is trying to forget. To recap, Dobbo sent batches of ...
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22 October 1948
The numbers of nurses and domestic staff have been rising. Full-time nursing and midwifery staff in hospitals in England and Wales have increased by 2,000 in 12 months. Last June the total was 117,741 compared with 115,529 a year earlier. Part-timers over the same period rose by nearly 7,000 to ...