All News articles – Page 1898

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    One for all and all for one?

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The NHS plan refers temptingly to the concept of 'one-stop health and social care services'. Patients and users would no longer be pushed from organisational pillar to professional post. A call to one would be a call to all: seamless care at the point of delivery.

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    Red light alert

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Failure to meet the NHS plan's performance targets will mean being classified as a 'red-light' organisation in need of special measures. This will have legal implications for both patients and trusts alike, writes Melanie Print

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    HA rejects funding bias claim against PMS pilot

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Allegations of political bias in funding for a personal medical service pilot run by a member of the NHS access taskforce have been dismissed as unfair by Salford and Trafford health authority.

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    After the mediation: what they said

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The claimant: 'I couldn't have done it without [my wife]. Because of her support and because she was part of it. She lived through it with me all the time and she went through hell as well, a kind of psychological hell. She was part of the battle.'

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    Bringing on the support act

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Advocacy skills for health and social care professionals By Neil Bateman Jessica Kingsley 192 pages £15.95

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    Seven days free access to the HSJ website archive

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The HSJ website archive is being thrown open to anyone who wants to use it this week. The archive contains more than 4,000 documents, including 1,000 full-text news stories added this year alone, and offers access to everything that has ever appeared on the site. Although use of the searchable ...

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    Something foolish about going backwards

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    £5.2m private grant for asthma medicine research

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow School of Respiratory Science is to receive a £5.2m grant from Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyorin to develop existing research into creating a range of asthma medicines. The National Asthma Campaign for Scotland has welcomed the investment as Scotland has seen a 50 per cent increase in asthma cases over ...

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    Housing gets £44m from health budget

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has come under attack after it was discovered that she has agreed to transfer £44m from the health budget to help cut Glasgow city council's £1bn housing debt.

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    150 million prescriptions 'await processing'

    2000-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Shortages of generic drugs have produced 'a crisis' in prescription processing, the chief executive of the Prescriptions Pricing Authority has said.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    As paramedics cut away the remains of the wrecked vehicle, a voice-over intones: 'The nearest hospital is 20 minutes away - and she only has 10 minutes to live.' The picture pans across to take in a descending helicopter. 'The air ambulance will have her there in five.'

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    TRUST OF THE YEAR

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Winner: Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospital trust Runners-up: Sandwell Healthcare trust; East Gloucestershire trust

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    Stocking's tops

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The newly appointed director of the NHS Modernisation Agency takes up her job with a reputation as a thoroughly 'modern'woman at one with the ethos of New Labour. Laura Donnelly reports

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    Quietly does it

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The NAPC annual conference was a politically subdued affair this year. Everybody happy, then - or just too busy getting on with the job? Paul Stephenson reports

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    in person

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Dame Barbara Mills, former director of public prosecutions, has been appointed a non-executive director of the Royal Free and Hampstead trust.

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    monitor

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The mountainous world of NHS recruitment gets overshadowed, fears Monitor, by molehills in matters of sport. Luckily funzine HSJ has no time for nonentities of the Kevin Keegan variety when there are real celebs like Nige Crisp to worry about. But this week, the dizzy worlds collide, as a former ...

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    Message in a virgin

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Recruitment process makes a mockery of Nolan rules

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    HSJ sources have attacked the process by which 'the second most important job in the NHS' went to a regional director without the job being advertised.

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    Less jaw, more trousers

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The clinical governance train is gathering momentum.

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    IT INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR

    2000-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Winner: Suffolk health authority, the Suffolk extranet Runner-up: Bromley health authority, the Bromley general practitioner clinical system