All News articles – Page 1992

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    Ex-nurses wooed for the winter

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The NHS is begging recently retired nurses to return to work this winter and offering trusts funding to persuade 'key staff ' to stay on until next spring.

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    Events

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ. Fax: 020-7874 0254. E-mail: ulij@healthcare.emap.co.uk Due to pressure on space, publication cannot ...

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    Socio-economic factors 'don't explain rankings'

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Variations in health authority performance cannot be explained away by variations in social and economic conditions, a King's Fund study has concluded.

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    Looking deeper

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Health improvement programmes By Salman Rawaf and Peter Orton The Royal Society of Medicine 176 pages £14.95

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    Dear Mel. . .

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Our hospital social club has just started running 'exotic' entertainment evenings. On Tuesdays it's a hen night for the ladies with male strippers and so on, while Thursdays are stag nights for the lads with the female variety. The club makes quite a lot of money which it donates to ...

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    Days like this

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Community reforms held up. . .Alan Langlands appointed. . .PM asked for pay guarantees. . .Fewer women appointed. . . north-south split

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    Data needed for patient process re-design

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    East London HAZ funding 'cut' not increased

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Thresholds critical 'if nine-month waiting-list goals are to be met'

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The nine-month waiting-time target expected in today's national plan can only be met if clinically defined referral and access thresholds are introduced, according to King's Fund fellow in health systems Anthony Harrison.

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    Crash course

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    NHS trainee managers were hanging on to their hats last week when they piloted their way through HSJ's one-day simulation event. Tash Shifrin reports on the ups and downs of the day

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    Legal ruling may see CHI go public

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A landmark court ruling could force the Commission for Health Improvement to hold its investigations in public.

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    Faith and hope in health charities

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Patient power? The politics of patients' associations in Britain and America By Bruce Wood Open University Press 224 pages £19.99

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    Casting a verdict on history

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Landmark? Last chance? Election winner? Will today's national plan for the NHS fulfil the many hopes invested in it? Kaye McIntosh asks key players for their assessment

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    Short Cuts: Council votes to sort cash crisis with outside help

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Local councillors have voted to call in the auditor general for Scotland to investigate the cash crisis at Tayside University Hospitals trust. Members of Angus council unanimously voted to write to Robert Black to ask him to investigate the £11.1m overspend and the £8m deficit forecast for this year. Although ...

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    Trust to be questioned on conduct during Neale case

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Northallerton Health Services trust is facing tough questions over why it gave gynaecologist Richard Neale a £100,000 payoff, bought his private consulting rooms and gave him a reference that allowed him to practise at other hospitals.

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    Headhunters hired to get Carter's successor

    2000-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Executive is facing new charges of 'cronyism' following the announcement that Ronnie Cleland is to play a leading role in recruiting a new chief medical officer for Scotland.