All News articles – Page 2001

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    'Entrenched prejudice': exploding the myths

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The East London and the City HA report is determined to 'explode some of the important myths about TB'.

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    Events

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Health and social services 11 September, London The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy is running a course on 'The interface between health and social services: achieving financial harmony'.The event covers the future agenda for further change, joint financing, audit arrangements, community care issues and case studies.

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    A kick in the goolies for Willie, the NHS's friend

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    A couple of days before the launch of the NHS plan, I was taken aside by a senior Tory MP at a leaving party for Robin Oakley, victim of a management shake-up at the NHS's perennial alter ego in the state sector, the equally loved and hated BBC.

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    Friends and relations

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Personal medical services pilot schemes have been slow to develop links with key organisations. Nicola Walsh and colleagues report

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    Hit and miss as ministers send in the heavy mob

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Encouraging a media feeding frenzy is not the way to tackle waiting lists

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    Hitching a ride

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Primary care and social services Developing new partnerships for older people By Kirstein Rummery and Caroline Glendinning Radcliffe Medical Press 114 pages £15.95

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    Hold your privates

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The government is determined to ensure consultants pull their weight in their NHS work - but how tough will the crackdown really be, asks Kaye McIntosh

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    Money for old hope

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Clinical genetics have been transformed since the mapping of the genome. Patrick Butler reports on a Scottish case that could have far-reaching repercussions

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    News: Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    All 3,000 staff at Worthing and Southlands Hospitals trust have been asked to 'tighten their belts' in a letter from chief executive Martin Smits as part of plans to reduce the trust's £3m overspend, which was £4m at the end of March.

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    Points mean prizes

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Junior health minister Lord Hunt has launched a scheme with high street retailer Boots to encourage people to become organ donors.

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    News: Trust merge

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    North East Lincolnshire trust and Scunthorpe and Goole Hospitals trust have welcomed ministerial approval to merge the two organisations from 1 April next year.

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    monitor

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Monitor likes to think of itself as a benign force; the voice of humanity, perhaps, in an ever-changing world. Imagine the shock, then, to find that one of Monitor's treasured readers had taken offence at attempts to provide a wee bit of cheeky relief amid the torrents of national plannery. ...

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    A new way through

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    How can primary care organisations and hospitals ensure effective integrated care? Donald Light and Michael Dixon suggest collaborative contracting is the key

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    in person

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Melvyn Ellis will be leaving Herefordshire health authority at the end of October to become chief executive of South Staffordshire health authority. Mr Ellis has worked in Herefordshire for almost five years and seen through a number of developments, including a new hospital for Hereford.

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    Recipe for success

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The trained nurse's teaching pack No 2 By Gill Early and Sarah Miller Age Concern 69 pages, 39 overhead transparencies £35+£1.99 p&p

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    Talking it through

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Nurses found a lot to like in the NHS plan, but. . . Laura Donnelly reports from a summer school for nurse leaders on the profession's worries for the future

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Three years ago, fewer than a million people in this country made use of the Internet - around 2 per cent of the population. Since then, growth has been dramatic: one estimate suggests nearly 20 million people are now online, and National Statistics says 6.5 million households in the UK ...

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    Short Cuts: Ambulance services in London falter on 999 calls

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    London Ambulance Service trust's performance has dipped again.During June, when Euro 2000 added to demand, ambulances reached 35 per cent of urgent 999 calls within eight minutes, against a target of 55 per cent, and 82 per cent of calls within 14 minutes, against a target of 95 per cent.The ...

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    Short Cuts: Call for GPs to abandon 'traditional role'

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Health Economics has published a call for GPs to abandon much of their traditional role and become 'general contractors for care', steering patients through the health system in much the same way as a general building contractor steers a building project through its various stages. Professor Gordon ...

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    'Shocked' CHCs bite back in row over abolition

    2000-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Patient watchdogs have attacked the government's NHS plan, warning it will reduce public monitoring of the NHS despite its supposed 'patient focus'.