All News articles – Page 1952

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    Where a pioneer leads by example

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    HSJ monographs Primary care mental health By Dr Alan Cohen To order call 01483-303017 18 pages £12.99

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    FAGS 'R ' US

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    As part of a multi-pronged drive against smoking, one health authority is forging partnerships with a wide range of outlets that sell tobacco.John Middleton and Chris Saxon report

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    New year honours give nod to key modernisers

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Key players in the drive to modernise the NHS have been rewarded in the new year's honours list, with CBEs going to several senior managers for their work in driving forward reforms.

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    Users 'lack rights in white paper'

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Concessions in the government's mental health white paper do not go far enough to balance the rights of the individual against powers for compulsory treatment, charities have warned.

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    Upper limits

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    The dominant theme of the new guidance on services for upper gastro-intestinal (UGI) cancers (see box 1) is the need for greater specialisation. A wide-ranging review of research evidence, summarised in the latest Effective Health Care bulletin, reveals the magnitude of the gulf between outcomes that prevail in England and ...

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    Why the rush, Mr Milburn?

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Is there something to hide in the Mental Health Act white paper?

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    Take the money and run?

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Are managers being paid over the odds when their contracts are terminated? And why do NHS employers refuse to reveal severance payments in defiance of official guidance? Seamus Ward reports

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    monitor

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    It is nice to know that age cannot wither some people. Duncan Eaton, chief executive and buyer of large amounts of things at the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency, may have been working in the NHS for more than 30 years, but he is anxious to let it be known ...

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    'I can see you now'

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Government-funded online centres are providing new treatment opportunities for those with mental health problems. Claire Laurent reports

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    A tome of their own

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    The NHS plan for Scotland is, says the minister, 'not about restructuring the system, but rewiring it'.Maura Thompson reports on an attempt to rid Scotland of its reputation as one of Europe's health blackspots

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    in person

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Jana Burton has been appointed chief executive of Lowestoft primary care trust - the first in Suffolk - which will become operational from April.

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    THE PERSUADERS

    2001-01-04T00:00:00Z

    Name: Simon Stevens.

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    Extra £1bn will help fund key NHS objectives

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The English health service will have around £1bn of extra cash to implement the NHS plan next year, according to NHS Executive finance director Colin Reeves.

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    Scottish NHS plan will abolish trusts

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's 28 hospital and primary care trusts are to be brought under health board control in a radical reorganisation at the heart of the Scottish health plan launched today. The move will end the purchaser-provider split in the Scottish NHS.

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    Great Scot! Trust abolition could put NHS out of kilter

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Enormous upheaval will be watched carefully by English managers

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    Consultant at abuse scandal hospital in new probe

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    A consultant psychiatrist criticised for his 'passive' role in the Garlands Hospital patient abuse scandal in North Cumbria has been suspended from his management post.

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    Framework 'signals end of ageism'

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The national service framework for elderly people, due to be published within weeks, will require the NHS to offer equal access to treatments and drugs regardless of age.

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    Ah yes, I remember it well. . . .

    2000-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Or do you? An end-of-year quiz on the events of 2000