All News articles – Page 2279

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    Assembly line

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Jan Williams, chief executive of Iechyd Morgannwyg HA, tried hard not to sound too pessimistic about the future of Welsh HAs under a National Assembly.

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    The appliance of science

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Managers are being told to take a more scientific approach to their work. Pat Healy reports from the European Healthcare Management Association conference in Dublin

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    Another woman chief executive writes...

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    I read with interest and surprise 'A gender for change' (pages 24-27, 11 June). What particularly surprised me was Hilary Pepler indicating that 'all the other chief executives in Liverpool are men'.

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    Minister's written guarantees on PCGs fail to mollify angry GPs

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Angry GPs are demanding further concessions on the structure, make up and resourcing of primary care groups, despite written guarantees from health minister Alan Milburn.

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    Andrew Riley

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    has joined South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust as chief executive. He originally trained as a radiographer and held various posts in the NHS before spending a brief spell in the private sector, working for a computer company. He returned to the NHS in 1990 and was most recently acting chief ...

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    CHCs face a shake-up after damning report

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Community health councils have largely failed in their role as local NHS watchdogs and are in need of a radical overhaul, according to a report backed by the NHS Executive.

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    BMA backs calls to close A&Es

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Doctors' leaders have thrown their weight behind the idea of 'super hospitals' serving half a million people each, claiming that local hospitals do not have the technology to save patients' lives.

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    More ambulances meet 999 targets despite rise in emergency journeys

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    More ambulances met 999 response-time targets last year, despite a 4 per cent rise in the number of emergency journeys, official figures reveal.

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    Bevan's babies at 50

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    It was the year of the austerity Olympics in London, the first Polo mint rolled off the production line, bread was tuppence a loaf, and the NHS was born, along with 905,000 babies in the UK. Bernadette Friend tracked down some of Bevan's 1948 babies - who went on to ...

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    Medical product companies refuse to sign year 2000 IT bug guarantees

    1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Medical product manufacturers are collectively refusing to sign year 2000 IT compliance certificates sent to them by trusts.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    How do you see the world evolving by 2020? Will we find ourselves in a fragmented society in which we have to find our own way and science is just one voice among competing world views. Or will the nation state reassert itself, and with it individual reliance on those ...

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    A 'third way' to promotion?

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    comment: Health minister's vision is safely built on public service values

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    Smear test progress

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Managers & Medicine

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    in person

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Tim Skelton will join Salisbury Health Care trust as chief executive next month. He is currently working on service reconfiguration with four hospitals in West Hertfordshire and was previously chief executive of St Albans and Hemel Hempstead trust.

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    Opening up

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Managing high security psychiatric care Edited by Charles Kaye and Alan Franey Jessica Kingsley Publishers 240 pages £19.95

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    monitor

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    The sound of willow smacking firmly on leather echoes around Quarry House. But as soon as they get tired of all that, a crack squad of NHS Executive officials, regional office bureaucrats and even a few real NHS staff intends to put in a bit of cricket practice.

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    Milburn outlines his vision of 'third way' for public services

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Health minister Alan Milburn last week set out his view of the way forward for public services, harnessing the Blairite jargon of the 'third way' to range far beyond his NHS brief to take in education and social services.

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    Hearing voices

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Staff whose views are rarely made public speak out on the meaning of the NHS's 50th anniversary in a new book, Other Voices. Author Patrick Butler explains

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    hansard

    1998-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Since 1991, a total of 29 trusts and health authorities have been found to have broken health and safety laws. Last year, Surrey Heartlands trust, Premier Health trust, Community Health Sheffield trust, Leeds Community and Mental Heath trust, Gloucestershire Ambulance Service trust, Eastbourne Hospital trust and Swindon and Marlborough trust ...