Latest news – Page 2822
-
News
Central support available for PCGs if HA liabilities threaten
Central support will be available 'in exceptional cases' to ensure primary care groups are not knocked off course by 'unacceptably high' health authority liabilities.
-
News
Tobacco white paper focuses on preventing child smoking
New measures to try to prevent children starting to smoke were expected to be outlined today in the government's long-awaited tobacco white paper.
-
News
Huge NI hospital shake-up in bid to secure future of acute service
A radical shake-up of Northern Ireland's hospitals has been launched by the government in a bid to end uncertainty about the future of acute services.
-
News
Chiefs' pay rises crash through limit
Northern Ireland health minister John McFall has ordered a review of trust chief executives' pay after annual reports disclosed that 16 out of 20 have received increases exceeding government guidelines.
-
News
Winyard in 'take care' message
NHS Executive medical director Graham Winyard has urged health service managers to take better care of their own health.
-
News
Putting it Right: the proposals
12 local hospitals providing day surgery, outpatient and diagnostic services, a local accident unit, telemedicine and GP beds.
-
News
Open meetings must not become 'cosmetic'
Guidance setting out the detail of health secretary Frank Dobson's determination to 'end excessive secrecy in the NHS' says trust and health authority boards must not allow open meetings to become a 'cosmetic exercise'.
-
News
2000 events test 999 services
Emergency services and hospitals in London will have to cope with 'around 1,000 millennium events', the government has warned.
-
News
where are they now? No 92 PFI guidance Pocket profile:
A 'book of instructions' for NHS managers 'on how to do' private finance initiative projects.
-
News
Modernising Social Services: the response
Bill Kilgallon, chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust, and former chair of Leeds city council social services committee
-
News
'Awful accountant' determined to rid the profession of its 'abominable no-men' image
The Healthcare Financial Management Association's new chair is touchingly keen to undermine the image of accountants as 'abominable no- men'.