All News articles – Page 1934

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    Court action looms over DoH anti-flu drug guidance

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A company which distributes an anti-flu drug that is a tenth of the price of Relenza is considering legal action against the Department of Health after accusing it of restraint of trade.

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    'Battles' inevitable if medical committee is abolished

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The medical practices committee is urging the government to reconsider proposals laid out in the NHS plan to abolish it.

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    Traffic-light doubts grow as 80% of red-alert HAs appear in North

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A preliminary 'traffic light' system ranking English health authorities in terms of performance and effectiveness exposes a sharp North-South divide, with the vast majority of poor-performing 'red light' organisations in the North, this week's HSJ reveals.

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    Strategy for HIV remains elusive despite an extra £41m in funding

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Public health minister Yvette Cooper has announced an extra £41m next year to tackle soaring numbers of people living with HIV and AIDS. But there is still no sign of the long-delayed draft sexual health and HIV strategy, which is now not expected until the new year.

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    Bedblock set to hit trust's £1m savings

    2000-12-07T00:00:00Z

    A cash-strapped Scottish trust has revealed that it has made £1m in savings on wages but will have to spend an extra £1m on tackling bedblocking this winter.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Medical school heads are having kittens at the idea that doctors could be churned through their august institutions in four years rather than five.So imagine how they would react to the suggestion that you could learn it all in 24 hours - and without having to get your hands all ...

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    Right on target

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    An enterprising scheme to help mothers in one of the most deprived areas of the country is being staffed by members of their own communities. Barbara Millar reports

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    A problem shared

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    It's pooled budgets with a difference in one part of east London, as the NHS helps social services withstand swingeing cuts in service provision. Tash Shifrin reports

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    in person

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Microbiologist Sandra Benjamin has been appointed chair of Cornwall Healthcare trust.She was previously a nonexecutive director of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority.

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    monitor

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Parallels between Princess Di (as was) and finance directors are rare. Colin Reeves would never have called himself 'the people's finance director' - it wasn't in his nature. Yet news that the NHS' top bean-counter is to pack away his scientific calculator for the last time has shaken the foundations ...

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    The long and winding road

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Race, culture & ethnicity in secure psychiatric practice Working with difference Edited by Charles Kaye and Tony Lingiah Jessica Kingsley 284 pages £18.95 paperback

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    Type-righting lessons

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The huge rise in the type-2 diabetes population - and the introduction of major new drug treatments - is set to pose some increasingly tough management decisions, writes Jenny Bryan

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    Proposals unveiled for Scottish independent sector

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Plans for improving the regulation of Scotland's independent healthcare sector have been unveiled by Scottish health minister Susan Deacon. The proposals have been developed following responses to the Scottish Executive's consultation paper, Regulating Private and Voluntary Healthcare, which was published earlier this year. They include the regulation of private hospitals, ...

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    Giant gorilla in their midst

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    For a primeval swamp, New England isn't a bad place to be in mid-October: the trees are trumpeting their extraordinary colours against a bright blue sky.

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    Take the shock out of the future

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Business planning for healthcare management Second edition By Carolyn Semple Piggott Open University Press 164 pages £18.99

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    Finders, keepers

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Can the UK's largest employer solve acute staffing shortages in all sectors? Jeremy Davies reports

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    Figure skating without ice

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Reference cost data that should reveal all never discloses full story

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    At face value

    2000-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The team guide to communication By John Middleton Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd 213 pages £19.95