All News articles – Page 2279

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    'Political pressure' to bring down waiting lists, claim Conservatives

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    The Conservatives traded insults with government ministers this week over claims that 'immense political pressure' was being put on managers to improve waiting list statistics.

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    Broadmoor strike threat over rotas

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Broadmoor special hospital was pitched into fresh crisis this week when the Prison Officers' Association threatened to hold a ballot on strike action unless management took immediate steps to ease 'severe and critical' staff shortages.

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    Calman urges improved salaries for cytologists

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman has urged trust managers to improve cytologists' pay as part of an 'action plan' to strengthen the national cervical screening programme.

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    Communicating flaws

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    The London Ambulance Service is linking up with a telephone interpreting line in a bid to improve its work with ethnic minorities. Anna Minton reports

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    Winning the day

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Scotland has improved its day surgery performance, and even convinced sceptical GPs. Barbara Millar reports

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    PFI 'milestone' for Edinburgh

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Contracts have been signed for Scotland's flagship private finance initiative hospital building project - a 180m replacement for Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary, City Hospital and Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital.

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    Transfers to NHS from jail 'too slow'

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    The chief inspector of prisons has alerted home secretary Jack Straw to 'totally unacceptable' delays in transferring mentally ill prisoners from Long Lartin jail to the NHS.

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    Mis-sold pensions settled 'speedily'

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Unions have welcomed the 'pretty speedy' progress finally being made in resolving the personal pensions mis-selling scandal that hit tens of thousands of NHS staff in the 1980s.

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    Tight timing for PCG start

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    Health authorities have been given a tight timetable for getting the first piece of the primary care group funding jigsaw in place.

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    On the record

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    What is the first thing you do when you arrive at work?

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    Shortcuts

    1998-08-27T00:00:00Z

    RCN welcomes rethink on student bursaries

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    Unhealthy fears from the 1950s to the 1990s

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Moral panics By Kenneth Thompson Routledge 142 pages 10.99

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    Debunking the magic 21bn

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    A Department of Health press release on 29 July announced the funding of 'assertive outreach teams' to care more efficiently for mentally ill people in the community.

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    36.6% applying to medicine are ethnic minorities

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The number of ethnic minority candidates trying to become doctors and dentists is greater than their proportion in the community, statistics released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service last week show.

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    Cornish rescue plan demands 4m savings

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Managers have been told to come up with new initiatives to save 4m as a result of health secretary Frank Dobson's decision to save four Cornish community hospitals.

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    New ACHCEW director sets out her stall with 'adapt or die' ultimatum

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The incoming director of the Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales has issued an ultimatum to CHCs: adapt or die.

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    Campaigners claim ageing is an 'achievement'

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Britain's ageing population should not be viewed as a problem but as 'one of the major achievements of the 20th century', says a report from the Continuing Care Conference.

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    Advice on unravelling primary care funding

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Practice finance Your questions answered By John Dean Radcliffe 145 pages 16.50

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    'Shotgun affair' is a grossly wrong portrayal

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    David Crosby's provocative letter about your News Focus on integrated healthcare (letters, 4 June), clearly demands a response. I was at the conference referred to. Mr Crosby's representation of Iain Chalmers as 'acting as a catalyst for a shotgun affair' between orthodox and complementary medicine is grossly wrong. Your article ...

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    Surgeon off duty after phone row

    1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

    A Welsh trust has suspended a consultant surgeon after she smashed a telephone against a wall. Janet Higgs claims the incident happened on 27 July because she was frustrated at not being able to operate on a patient.