All News articles – Page 1951
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Mental health 'czar'demands zero suicides on acute wards
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has ordered the NHS to take 'immediate action' to meet targets for zero suicides on acute psychiatric wards by the end of March 2002.
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Lobby of Unison branches backs expelled activists
Two Unison activists launched their appeal against expulsion from the union last week. University College London Hospitals Unison branch secretary Candy Udwin and chair Dave Carr were supported by a lobby of members from 15 other branches at their appeal hearing. The UCLH Unison branch is one of the best ...
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Health care provision: Past, present and into the 21st century
By Audrey Leathard Nelson Thornes 351 pages £22.50 paperback
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Sunderland West PCT operational in April 2001
I refer to the advertisement for the post of chief executive of Sunderland West primary care trust (page 66, 14 September).
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One to watch
The trouble with public health annual reports is that no-one reads them. Will putting it on video get round the problem? Claire Laurent reports
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Ofsted revisited
Pilot reviews by the Commission for Health Improvement have shown the importance of healthcare managers, CHI director Peter Homa told delegates.
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Managers meet the management
The IHM, which represents NHS managers, lives in the shadow of the NHS Confederation. The media could never tell the difference: should they join forces? Tash Shifrin reports
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Towards the ideal
The NHS was a role model for American health professionals. How has the NHS plan affected its perception in the US in different times? Howard Berliner reports
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No more heroes
The requirement for a leader to be a charismatic superman was one of the mythologies debunked in a major survey on qualities needed at the top. Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe and Robert Alban-Metcalfe report
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No more lonely heroes
Incoming IHM president William McKee attacked 'naming and shaming' and 'red lights' in his inaugural speech to the institute.
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Fuel and health
After an NHS-wide red alert as a result of the direct action cutting off fuel supplies it may seem perverse to suggest some positive economic - and health - reasons for high fuel prices. But here goes.
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Women's federation opposes sub-consultant grade
The Medical Women's Federation has 'strongly rejected' NHS plan proposals to introduce a sub-consultant grade. It says implementation of the 'proposed employment bondage would seriously damage the national recruitment drive', and warns that 'women doctors know from bitter experience who will fill such posts'. It also suggests that contract changes ...
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False start
With clinical governance beginning to bite, most trusts still seem unready for the cultural changes needed, write Kieran Walshe and colleagues
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Lord Hunt should lie down and think of England
It's wrong to back-track on fluoridation, whatever the rights lobby says