Latest news – Page 2895

  • News

    Achieving investment

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Letters

  • News

    Fair shares of the kitty?

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Are chief executives overpaid? Barbara Millar investigates the controversy surrounding managers' pay

  • News

    Tone of contention

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Attacked by the press and dogged by controversy, South Africa's health minister, who will be speaking at next week's NHS Confederation conference in London, is, nonetheless, a gutsy reformer. And she's not afraid to take on her critics. Pat Sidley reports

  • News

    Lung Cancer

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Lung cancer is the third most common cause of death in the UK - around 80 per cent of patients die within a year of diagnosis. New guidance says the focus should be on prevention, palliative care and specialist teams. Arabella Melville and colleagues repo

  • News

    Opening up

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Managing high security psychiatric care Edited by Charles Kaye and Alan Franey Jessica Kingsley Publishers 240 pages £19.95

  • News

    There is a third way: 'muddling elegantly'

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Desperately seeking solutions Rationing health care By David Hunter Longman 224 pages £14.99

  • News

    For the breadth of this, look at the QALY

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    The Ethical QALY Ethical issues in healthcare resource allocation By Andrew Edgar, Sam Salek, Darren Shickle, David Cohen Euromed Communications 168 pages £65

  • News

    in person

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Tim Skelton will join Salisbury Health Care trust as chief executive next month. He is currently working on service reconfiguration with four hospitals in West Hertfordshire and was previously chief executive of St Albans and Hemel Hempstead trust.

  • News

    Events

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, Health Service Journal , Porters South, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW.

  • News

    Suave Thatcherite with a 'feel' for health

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Profile

  • News

    Bill aims to halt community hospital closures

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    A cheeky private bill introduced recently aims to make it all but impossible to close community hospitals, reflecting the continuing domination of this topic in parliamentary health debates.

  • News

    hansard

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Since 1991, a total of 29 trusts and health authorities have been found to have broken health and safety laws. Last year, Surrey Heartlands trust, Premier Health trust, Community Health Sheffield trust, Leeds Community and Mental Heath trust, Gloucestershire Ambulance Service trust, Eastbourne Hospital trust and Swindon and Marlborough trust ...

  • News

    monitor

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    The sound of willow smacking firmly on leather echoes around Quarry House. But as soon as they get tired of all that, a crack squad of NHS Executive officials, regional office bureaucrats and even a few real NHS staff intends to put in a bit of cricket practice.

  • News

    Public Assistance Journal

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    25 June 1948

  • News

    Collaboration - the Big C

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Managers & Medicine

  • News

    In Brief: Corneal neuropathic ulcers

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Managers & Medicine

  • News

    In Brief: Blood test to detect cancers

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Managers & Medicine

  • News

    In Brief: Two new cancer drugs to undergo clinical trials

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Managers & Medicine