All News articles – Page 1917

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    British 'think welfare state will perish by 2050'

    2000-09-28T00:00:00Z

    People in Britain expect the welfare state to disappear over the next 50 years, according to a MORI survey for right-wing think-tank the Adam Smith Institute.

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    £70m earmarked to treat dangerous disorders

    2000-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The Home Office is putting £70m behind a threeyear programme of pilot projects for treating people with dangerous severe personality disorder.

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    'Tidy up' blamed for IHM's missing 1,500

    2000-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The Institute of Healthcare Management has admitted to having just 8,500 members - up to 1,500 fewer than was claimed when it was formed in October last year.

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    PFI pioneer builds up backlog of 3,000 'unreported'x-rays

    2000-09-28T00:00:00Z

    The country's first fully operational private finance initiative hospital has amassed a backlog of about 3,000 'unreported' x-rays since its official opening in April.

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    Anti-poverty policies may save 10,000 lives

    2000-09-28T00:00:00Z

    More than 10,000 premature deaths per year will be saved if the government persists with policies to combat poverty and reduce health inequalities, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Though firmly under the umbrella of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, and largely funded by it, the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths is, in fact, an independent charity backed by a range of royal colleges and other organisations.

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    Take that

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Pharmacists may at last claim their rightful place in the health delivery landscape, thanks to the NHS plan. Jeremy Davies reports

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    Reviewing the reviews

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Few managers - even those who have struggled long and hard to push through unpopular acute beds cuts - are willing to contemplate that their service reviews might have to be scrapped in the light of Mr Milburn's instruction to plan for increases.

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    Not quite the whole tooth

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Dental strategy is welcome, but HAs must act now to fill gaps in provision

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    Pump up the volume

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Claims that the NHS was on the verge of crisis helped break the petrol tankers' blockades. Was the health service used and abused? Lyn Whitfield and Mark Gould investigate

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    Public services 'shouldn't be run privately'

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Unison has claimed that more than 60 per cent of the public believe that public services should be run using directly employed workers.

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    in person

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Sandy Hogg has become director of finance at University Hospitals of Leicester trust, where new chief executive Peter Reading recently completed his management team. Ms Hogg has worked in the health service for 17 years, most recently as director of finance and procurement for Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust.

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    Process for operation 'shorter' than stated

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    monitor

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Many rude things have been written about the future of health action zones.

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    Mac, not Machiavelli

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's new chief medical officer is defecting from the BMA. Poacher turned gamekeeper, or just an honest diplomat, asks Colin Wright

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    Out on a limb

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Implementing evidence-based changes in healthcare Edited by David Evans and Andrew Haines Radcliffe Medical Press 320 pages £27. 50 paperback

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    For what it's worth

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    A trust's system to give all staff annual statements on their pension entitlements has been taken up nationally. Mike Colman and Paul Robinson report

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    Tough guidelines will tackle illegal tobacco sales

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Yvette Cooper has launched a new set of guidelines, developed with the Department of Trade and Industry with support from trading standards officers and local authorities, to 'get tough' on shop-keepers who sell cigarettes to under-age children. The tobacco enforcement protocol sets out best practice on issues ...

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    It'll never get well if you picket

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    While the country struggled along in grudging acceptance of the fuel blockade, two regional public health directors tackled the picket lines head on.

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    Get some in

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Alan Milburn says he wants a new drive to boost bed numbers - but how easy will it be to achieve this at grassroots level, asks Thelma Agnew