All News articles – Page 2011

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    Mind how you go

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Speculation about Scottish health minister Susan Deacon's future continues apace. Colin Wright reports

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    Government should practise what it preaches

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Out of harm's way

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Doctors who murder are rare. But doctors' deliberate harm to patients is well documented. Paul McDonald argues for better external scrutiny

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    Nurses, help please

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    'Matron' to return with revamped role

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Milburn is to use the NHS national plan - set to be unveiled next week - to push the concept of a return to 'matron', HSJ has learned.

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    monitor

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Regular consumers of this page may remember one Dr Tara Fields, a lady doctor and Yankee to boot. (In the interests of Monitor's continued fight against institutional jokes about people not from round here, it should be noted that violence against Americans is reckless and not much fun. ) But ...

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    Shape up or ship out

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    More people are heading overseas for non-urgent treatment, many in response to long waiting lists at home. But should the NHS foot the bill? Seamus Ward reports

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    in person

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    John Bruce is the new chair of Southend Hospital trust. He was appointed a non-executive director of the trust in 1994 and has been vicechair since 1998.

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    Picking up the pieces

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    A jointly funded residential service accepts 'difficult-to-place' mental patients, whose care in the community has previously failed. Andy Ward and Jon Woolmore explain

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    Troubleshooters sent in to sort 'red-hot' pressure trust

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    London regional office has sent a troubleshooting team into Barts and the London trust to tackle performance in a month in which the trust has lost its chair and admitted 'red-hot pressures' in intensive care.

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    Stocking's shortage: sock it to them

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    In the wars

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    After a growing number of horrifying attacks on hospital staff, trusts are getting tough with their assailants. Phil Coleman reports

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...

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    £5m found to cut NI waiting

    2000-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun has found £5m to tackle waiting times while formally approving spending plans for the £53m found for Northern Ireland's health service in the Budget.

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    Chair calls it a day at £6m overspend trust

    2000-07-13T00:00:00Z

    The chair of Greenwich Healthcare trust has resigned as it struggles to cope with a £6m overspend on its £94m annual budget.

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    Public to speak on £300m plan

    2000-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Proposals to shift heart and lung services from the famous Harefield Hospital to a £300m development in west London's Paddington basin went to public consultation today.

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    Let's party like we did in '97

    2000-07-13T00:00:00Z

    It's never too early to set out your agenda. As election fever begins to take grip, Lyn Whitfield looks at who's backing who and at what could be in store for the health service

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    Agricultural matters

    2000-07-13T00:00:00Z

    A visitor to the Lincolnshire show is offered a healthy snack on an NHS stand organised by trusts and health authorities in Lincoln-shire. GPs, nurses and therapists offered healthchecks, advice on healthy living and diet. The local primary care trust also took the opportunity to tell the public about itself.