All News articles – Page 2156

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    GP deputising 'failures' added to holiday crisis

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Two studies have been launched into claims that failures in GP deputising services added to pressure on accident and emergency services at Christmas.

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    'Largest' network links acute sites

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    North Essex health authority has ordered the largest 'community of interest network' yet to be built in England.

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    BMA accuses police on surgeon contract

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    West Midlands Police has come under fire for privatising its police surgeon service.

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    OFT probes 'abuses' by private health firms

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading is investigating a series of allegations about uncompetitive behaviour in private medicine.

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    Dr Peter Kennedy: 'It used to take seven years to do something about colleagues with nicknames like 'Terminator' and '007'''

    1999-02-18T00:00:00Z

    Concept: 'The term is new, but the concept is not - it is about the collective responsibility of chief executives and clinicians. The new emphasis is on increasing the development of information on clinical outcomes and performance and handling that information in an open manner with the public.'

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    Supra? Sounds super

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    How interesting that Birmingham is the first to discover the benefits of what used to be called family practitioner committees.

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    Shark repellent

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    NHS credit unions can offer staff cheap loans and a way to bypass undesirable lenders, but their numbers are still low, writes Barbara Millar

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    Rational thinking

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Elderly people have always been marginalised in NHS planning. But it's time to question what rationing and prioritising mean for older people, says Dorothy White

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    in person

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    David Watt has become director of nursing at Poole Hospital trust. He has held the post on an acting basis since July 1997.

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    Over the threshold

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Significant variations between hospitals in the severity of illness of patients admitted suggest it is time to draw up an ideal admissions system, say David Lawrence and colleagues

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    Managers

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    A manager's lot would be greatly improved by a clear way of measuring outcome which shows how their actions impact on health, writes John Appleby

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    Protests at low pay offer for managers

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Senior managers are to be offered significantly lower pay rises than nurses, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has told trusts and health authorities.

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    On the line

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    The government wants radical reform of consultants' contracts. Wendy Moore considers the likely outcomes

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    Lighting up time

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    How will NICE work? And whatever happened to 'beacon' hospitals? Baroness Hayman has the answers. Mark Crail reports

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    Turnberg inspires team share

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    'Political' considerations have driven two trusts to create a single executive team reporting to two sets of non-executive directors.

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    The people who time forgot

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Being invited to write for a magazine as well-read by well-informed people as HSJ isn't just an honour, it's downright scary. What can I say to engage your attention when virtually every aspect of the health service has been hogging the headlines in yet another crisis of nursing, funding and ...

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    Falklands hospital seeks NHS staff to replace military team

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    A Falkland Islands hospital is looking for an NHS partner because of defence cuts.

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    Northern exposure

    1999-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Civil servant or health service manager? Northern and Yorkshire's new regional director, Peter Garland, talks to Seamus Ward about his role in an increasingly centralised NHS