All News articles – Page 2005
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In with the new
THE NHS PLAN An essay of good intentions that could go wrong or the start of a new relationship with the private sector? Two health policy experts give their views
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Patients are doing it for themselves
The NHS plan says bye bye CHCs, hello patient advocates - but one community group is ahead of the pack.Tash Shifrin reports
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This is your pilot speaking
The national plan envisages that a third of all GPs will be on personal medical services contracts by 2002.But a study of pilot schemes reveals that not all are using the freedoms and flexibilities offered by the legislation. June Hunt ington and colleagu
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Trading places
The idea that nurses could retrain to be doctors might have been unthinkable at one time. But the national plan includes provision for nurses to retrain mid-career without starting from scratch. Some have already made the switch. Janet Snell reports
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Testing positive
NHS chief executives rushed to read the NHS plan as it was published on the Internet, before giving HSJ their first reactions
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Wordperfect
A hand reaches out to touch one of 10 panels carved by Rebecca Walls for West Dorset Hospitals trust to celebrate the millennium.
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PFI projects ring up £52.7m in consultant bills
The full scale of expenditure on financial advisers, lawyers and other consultants in the 18 major private finance initiative hospital schemes that have so far gone ahead has been revealed in the Commons - a cool £52.7m.
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In Brief: The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999
The NHS has built 87 major hospitals between 1980 and 1999, with the most productive years being 1988 and 1991, when nine hospitals with a capital value of over £25m (at today's prices) went up in each year. Not included in the figures were the 38 major hospitals that have ...
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In Brief: The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research
The Department of Health commissioned 42 pieces of market and opinion research during 1999-2000, of which 11 involved focus groups, and 12 involved 'other market research' (the remainder are 'quantitative surveys'). Some 31 are listed as 'not published'. (Hansard , 17 July, col 65w)
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Heard the one about. . .
. . . a national plan to resolve the problems of the NHS? A laudable concept but plagued with pitfalls for politicians. Rudolf Klein has heard it all before
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Surgeons admit no evidence of value for money in trauma plans
The Royal College of Surgeons has demanded a major re-organisation of trauma services, while admitting there is no evidence this would be costeffective.
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Short Cuts: Adult smoking levels down over two decades
Public health minister Yvette Cooper has welcomed a compilation of statistics on smoking from 1978 onwards that show it has dropped among adults. The figures show that in 1998, 27 per cent of adults aged 16 and over smoked cigarettes, a drop from 40 per cent in 1978.But the prevalence ...