All News articles – Page 2207

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    Making a point:

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Making a point: a midwife signs a postcard backing a Royal College of Midwives campaign for a 'fair deal' on pay and action to tackle staff shortages. The RCM hopes to deliver 30,000 postcards to Parliament to 'maintain pressure' on ministers in the run-up to an announcement by the nursing, ...

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    Making their marker

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Paul Myers is a GP and senior lecturer at the department of general practice and primary care, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine.

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    Key points

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    An increase in the number of complications following male circumcisions performed by non-professionals led to the establishment of a special clinic for religious circumcisions.

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    Key points

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    The performance indicators currently in use are not reliable for assessing individual GPs or identifying poor performers.

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    Keep us posted

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Please send details of senior appointments, indicating whether a photograph is available, to Lyn Whitfield at HSJ, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, or fax 0171-874 0254, or e-mail: lynw@healthcare.emap.co.uk.

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    Patrick Herbert

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Patrick Herbert is the new chair of Sussex Ambulance Service trust. Mr Herbert, a Labour Party member, pursued a career in international and merchant banking. He succeeds Martyn Long, who is retiring.

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    PCG polls 'should not be run by HA'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    An investigation into a botched primary care group election in Birmingham has recommended that future polls should not be handled by health authority officers.

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    SEMA Group

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    SEMA Group is to get the contract to build the National Strategic Tracing Service for the NHS Executive. The NSTS will enable administrators across the health service to trace the NHS numbers of all patients in England and Wales from their names and birth dates. SEMA was one of only ...

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    White goods

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's public health white paper is due early next month. Barbara Millar reports on what is likely to be in store

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    Going our not-so-separate ways on health and social services spending

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    In 'Separate ways' (26 November), Paul Jervis and Robert Hazell write that 'the latest figures indicate that Northern Ireland and Scotland receive around 30 per cent per capita more than England, while Wales receives around 15 per cent more'.

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    Hundreds of manager posts go in mergers

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Hundreds of NHS management posts look set to disappear this April as more than 20 trust mergers take effect. Figures provided by trusts suggest the latest round of reorganisation could save the NHS up to £20m a year.

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    Reuters joins exodus from NHS market

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Reuters has sold its GP software operations to a French company, Cegedim SA.

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    Events

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    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, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 0171-874 0254.

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    The eagle has landed

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Birds of a feather Decentralising public service management By Christopher Pollitt, Johnson Birchall and Keith Putman Macmillan Press 211 pages £14.99

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    Drury steps in to new top post

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Peter Drury has been appointed head of the NHS’s information policy unit, a new post carrying a salary of up to £95,000.

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    Treating the drug-cost headache by tapping into regional expertise

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    PCGs will be under considerable pressure to cut prescribing costs and obtain the best value for money from drugs.

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    Our egalitarian government should halt this drain on the public purse

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    I received a flyer from QMW Public Policy Seminars, London University, inviting me to hand over £300 of public money (£259 plus VAT) to attend a day seminar on inequalities in health.

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    Tribunal ruling significance played down

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Managers have played down the significance of an employment appeal tribunal ruling hailed as a major boost for family-friendly policies by union leaders.

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    Demolished trust store in radioactive 'near miss'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A trust has fallen foul of the Environment Agency after a store containing radioactive waste was partly demolished.

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    Days like this

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Importing radical health reforms... Broadmoor managers... local health councils... nurses' pay... banning eggs from hospitals...