All News articles – Page 1977

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    No more lonely heroes

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Incoming IHM president William McKee attacked 'naming and shaming' and 'red lights' in his inaugural speech to the institute.

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    Towards the ideal

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    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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    Staff illiteracy is a threat to lives

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Managers meet the management

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    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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    monitor

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Targets, initiatives, modernisation, taskforces. It's all a bit of a slog, ponders Monitor.

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    Ofsted revisited

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    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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    One to watch

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    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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    in person

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Deborah Wheeler has been appointed director of nursing at Whittington Hospital trust. She previously held the same post at Bromley Hospitals trust.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Prepare to be deluged with formulaic and yet terribly well organised campaigns. This month's good cause is breast cancer, November's will be bowel cancer. And who could take exception to campaigns for more and better services?

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    Standards hazardous to health lead to £12,000 fine for hospital

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Leicester Royal Infirmary has been fined £12,000 for breaching health and safety regulations.

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    '160 children may have been failed' by Bristol

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The final clinical case review by the Bristol inquiry has suggested that more than 160 babies and young children may have been damaged or died as a result of poor standards of care between 1984 and 1995.

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    Community cancer care nets £23m lottery funding

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    The new opportunities fund has awarded £23m in lottery funding to community cancer care projects, focusing on particularly vulnerable communities. The 91 projects receiving funding will benefit people who are socially disadvantaged, isolated or hard-to-reach, including ethnic-minority communities, young patients and carers, and elderly people. Cancer awareness initiatives, 'hospice-at-home'schemes and ...

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    Milburn rejects CHCs'call for cash to oppose their abolition

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn has refused health watchdogs' calls to fund a judicial review of his decision to abolish them.

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    HIV charities in merger to address changing needs

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Two of the UK's largest HIV charities have come together in one of the largest single mergers in the voluntary sector. The Terrence Higgins Trust and London Lighthouse have merged to create the Terrence Higgins Trust Lighthouse, which will have a turnover of more than £8m. Grainne Morby, acting chief ...

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    CHI adds trust to next review

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    A trust whose cardiology department was the target of a call for a Commission for Health Improvement investigation has been included in CHI's next review round.

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    We'll meet again

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Given the observation that up to 16 per cent of medical re-admissions are potentially preventable, it is not surprising that the proportion of emergency re-admissions within 28 days has been adopted as a quality and performance indicator by the UK government.

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    NI's health is 'among the worst in Europe', says de Brun in cash bid

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland's health minister, Bairbre de Brun, has joined a ministerial scramble for cash with a bid for a £274m increase in her department's funding.

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    Milburn owns up to CCT failures and announces a tougher regime

    2000-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Trusts will have to measure support services against a central 'best-value' database, following the abolition of compulsory competitive tendering.