All News articles – Page 2227

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    Taking the pressure off

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    Ideas from the workshops

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    Praise be

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Delegates at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's annual conference heard health minister Alan Milburn extol the virtues of finance staff, while emphasising their 'key role' in the year ahead. Lyn Whitfield reports

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    in person

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Royal Berkshire Ambulance trust also has two new non-executive directors. They are Kenrick Sealy, a management consultant and nurse adviser, and Ian Mihell, a retired local authority manager.

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    Research warns over PCG size

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Primary care groups covering 100,000 patients may be too big to produce the loyalty and cohesion needed for an innovative, locally focused service, a report on a flagship total purchasing project has concluded.

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    'A quart in a pint pot': Nucleus reconsidered

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    On the 1979 Man Alive programme, William Tatton-Brown voiced his opposition to the Nucleus building programme. 'The responsibility of standardising and committing the whole country to a single concept is far too great for anybody to carry,' he said.

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    news

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has announced a £700,000 increase in funding for Scotland's air ambulance service. It will get two new helicopters and more paramedics to extend cover for remote and rural communities from 10 hours a day to 24.

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    monitor

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Even in the wonderful e-world of the NHS, technology can still go wrong. There was Big Al Langlands in Birmingham all set to deliver a Powerpoint presentation to the massed health authority and trust chairs when his laptop conked out. Not a bit dismayed, the resourceful Al had the NHS ...

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    Modernising Social Services: the response

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Bill Kilgallon, chair of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust, and former chair of Leeds city council social services committee

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    The main proposals:

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    'Several hundred' new places in psychiatric wards.

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    Judges

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    Burdett Award

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    Strategy 'schizophrenic' over mentally ill

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Government attempts to satisfy 'middle England' and health service staff have led it to create a 'schizophrenic' mental health strategy, according to a leading policy analyst.

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    From showpiece to shambles - St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    The average hospital maintenance problem is likely to pale into insignificance compared with the latest catastrophe to hit the showpiece low-energy hospital on the Isle of Wight.

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    Social graces

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    news focus

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    Sorry, got to go... I've run out of working time

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    I received the NHS circular about the European working- time directive on Monday morning.

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    National 'flying squad' set up to tackle fraud

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    this week

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    A few points IHSM leaders forgot to mention

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    I must thank Institute of Health Services Management president Peter Homa and chair John Brunt for their reply (Letters, 19 November) to my letter

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    Why not stress the demands on managers?

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    I was surprised that the recent report from the Institute of Work Psychology was given such a low profile (News, page 3,

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    Trust faces pay-out for death of heart patient

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Norfolk and Norwich Health Care trust faces a fine of more than £20,000 after admitting breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, causing the death of a patient.

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    Country and western

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Critical challenges for healthcare reform in Europe Edited by Richard Saltman, Josep Figueras and Constantino Sakellarides Open University Press 424 pages £19.99

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    Highly commended

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Swindon health promotion service's No, There is No Problem Here project