All News articles – Page 2023
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Sticky wicket for jambusters
Imaginative thinking must be the hospital menu planner's bread and butter
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No kidding
With district general hospitals doing less paediatric work, there are worries that they no longer have sufficient expertise. Is it time for all children to be treated in specialist centres, asks Stuart Smalley
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Race lost on points
Black healthcare staff are victims of discrimination under the discretionary points system for pay, a survey claims. Ann McGauran examines how fair the arrangements are
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Smoking targets too low: MPs
A scathing report on the tobacco industry from the Commons health select committee has condemned the government for failing to match antismoking rhetoric with action.
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in person
Stephen Coneys is new director of primary care for Birmingham health authority. A former state registered nurse, he has been working as assistant to the chief executive and head of contractor operation. Mr Coneys, a leading mountaineer, says he has 'experienced and learned from some spectacular failures including frostbite and ...
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Taking a pounding
The increasing use of private beds for mental health patients is costing the NHS a fortune and demoralising community services staff. Alan Simpson reports
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Professional scrutineers
The professions modernisation action team is chaired by health minister John Denham.
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'X'marks the split
Unison is rethinking its relationship with the Labour Party and there are signs it may be moving towards a more oppositional stance. Tash Shifrin reports
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WEB WATCH
Remember Alasdair Liddell? He jacked in his job as planning director at the NHS Executive to go off and work for a dot. com. If you're wondering what he's up to these days, he's a director of iMPOWER, 'the provider of choice for online solutions to enable the citizen, entrepreneur ...
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The way that you do it
Most questions at the CHI roadshow concerned the operation of reviews. Gillian Bean, from a local patient support group, asked how CHI proposed to gather the opinions of organisations such as hers.
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Action teams to unveil first ideas
The government's modernisation action teams meet in London today to polish their ideas before presenting them to ministers in the next fortnight.
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Furious juniors threaten ballot on action against 'cruddy' sub-consultant scheme
Junior doctors have threatened industrial action against a proposed new sub-consultant specialist grade.
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All stressed up and nowhere to go?
Heavy workload is often cited as a major cause of dissatisfaction and stress among GPs.
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Funds of all knowledge
GPs and purchasing in the NHS: the internal market and beyond By Bernard Dowling Ashgate 276 pages £39.95
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Scottish ambulance service goes under spotlight
Scotland's ambulance service is to undertake the most extensive review of its operations in its 50-year history from now until next April. Beyond 2000 will examine non-emergency services and operations control rooms and evaluate a priority-based dispatch system. Ray Hepburn, project leader in charge of the priority dispatch system, said: ...
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First among equals
Priority setting and the public By Penelope Mullen and Peter Spurgeon Radcliffe Medical Press 168 pages £24.50