All News articles – Page 2204

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    Heretic

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    How the NHS must take a new approach to clinical litigation - and prove that it doesn't need lawyers to see justice done

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    Mental health groups

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Mental health groups have moved to distance themselves from junior health minister Paul Boateng's announcement that a review of the Mental Health Act will mean forced medical treatment in the community.

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    Joint winter funding is 'lopsided' - Thornton

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Inter-agency partnerships to tackle winter pressures will be 'lopsided' unless the government plans a long-term cash injection for social services, NHS Confederation chief executive Stephen Thornton warned last week.

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    IT fgdfgdgf stoeuyrewgddrrew

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    An extra 1bn will to be added to NHS information technology budgets over the next seven years to fund the IM&T strategy published last week.

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    Events

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ, Porters South, 4 Crinan Street, London N1 9XW. Fax: 0171-843 4670.

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    Danger of postcode rationing versus men without stress who smoke less

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The debate about the availability of Viagra on the NHS have implications much wider than the treatment of impotence alone. Health secretary Frank Dobson should be congratulated on taking the politically risky step of offering a central policy decision on what the NHS can be expected, or is capable of ...

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    Penetrating the corridors of power

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    NHS chief executives should play dirty and learn political advocacy so that they could manage upwards as well as downwards, said Labour peer Baroness Young, chair of English Nature and former IHSM president.

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    Many staff dance on head of a pin when it comes to their own safety

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    After reading your item on needlestick injuries (page 4, 20 August), I wanted to let you know what we are doing at King's Healthcare trust.

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    It's cold outside

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The second annual forum of trust and health authority chief executives found them voicing bitter complaints about New Labour's command and control style. Peter Davies and Pat Healy were there

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    In a class of their own

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Liberal Democrats took a leaf out of education policy with calls for a health National Curriculum. Patrick Butler listened to heated debates on rationing

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    Chips with everything

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Already stretched to their limits by the year 2000 bugging imbroglio, IT managers are now be asked to deliver on Frank Burns' punishing new strategy. Can it be done, wonders Peter Mitchell

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    Genetic revolution which could force rethink on nurse training will catch managers on the hop

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    David Hunter ('Live from Leeds', 3 September) is absolutely right to highlight the almost total failure so far to pay proper attention to the impending genetic revolution in healthcare.

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    Time for ministers to bring the execs in from the cold Practical politics demands that chief executives be given more trust

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    You do not need to be a student of Machiavelli to realise that anyone who seeks to lead a large-scale enterprise must rely on able and committed lieutenants on the ground to bring their plans to fruition. Fostering a sense of well-being among them is crucial to success. And integral ...

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    Brenda Howard

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Brenda Howard has been seconded to the policy development group of the Trent regional office of the NHS Executive. Ms Howard, director of operations (surgical services) and planning at Barnsley District General Hospital trust, will further the government's

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    True-life tale of blood, sweat and tiers

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Bloodllines Real lives in a Great British hospital Andrew Davidson Little Brown

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    Nostalgic look back at past caring

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Headline Health: Health Service Journal History of the NHS Edited by Wendy Moore Emap Healthcare 125 pages 13.99

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    Awards

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Finalists for this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have now been shortlisted by the judges.

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    New approach to the waiting list problem

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    I was interested to read John Henderson's letter (13 August) on waiting list management in child and adolescent mental health services.

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    Let's have a very long and wordy headline here AKA guardian down page stories

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Government efforts to improve care in the community will fail unless shortages of supported and secure accommodation are remedied, according a report.

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    GPs set to benefit from telephone advice ruling

    1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Health authorities could have to pay thousands of pounds in back pay for GP telephone advice, following a landmark ruling by the NHS appeals authority.