All News articles – Page 2281

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    Reforms 'will fail' without £7bn capital boost

    1998-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The government will need more than £7bn investment from the private sector to make its NHS reforms work, independent consultants have estimated.

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    In Brief: £50,000 resource pack

    1998-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has launched a £50,000 resource pack aimed at helping trusts to recruit and retain nurses. It includes a promotional video for use in schools and careers advice offices.

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    WEB WATCH

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    It is 3.30pm on Tuesday. Madam Speaker calls the House of Commons to order, and a rare silence falls over the chamber. You rise to your feet, sip delicately from the crystal tumbler of 20-year-old malt whisky poised on the despatch box in front of you, and begin to deliver ...

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    In person

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Marsden trust has appointed Cally Palmer as chief executive. She joins from the Royal Free Hampstead trust, where she is currently deputy chief executive and director of services. Ms Palmer succeeds Phyllis Cunningham CBE, who is leaving at the end of May after 24 years at the hospital.

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    Putting paid to the past

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    MSF's equal-pay claim, based on a landmark ruling from the European Court, could make the NHS overhaul its pay structure, says Lyn Whitfield

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    In pursuit of 'therapeutic optimism'

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The New Deal could provide a shot in the arm for mental health policy, some experts believe.

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    In pursuit of 'therapeutic optimism'

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The New Deal could provide a shot in the arm for mental health policy, some experts believe.

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    Open to question

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Frank Dobson last year asked trust chairs to ensure their meetings were open to the public. He believed that the public would 'gain a wider understanding of the constraints and opportunities we face' and 'become more involved in their local health service and have a greater voice in ...

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    Where are they now?

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Pocket profile:

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    Monitor

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Despite fevered speculation that there would be a trawl of local candidates in the hunt for a chief executive for the new Leeds 'supertrust', the post has now been advertised externally. Which could be a blessing for NHS boss Alan Langlands, who has been heard to joke in the past ...

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    Money on the move

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Has Gordon Brown already been more generous towards the NHS than a Tory chancellor would have been? John Appleby assesses the background to this week's Budget

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    Memories of a rock musician

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Rock musician Ian Dury is someone who knows all about the inside of hospitals. He contracted polio in 1949, aged seven, probably in the public swimming pool at Southend.

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    Memories of a nurse

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The scars of the second world war were still in evidence when Diana Vass, now principal nurse adviser at NHS Estates, joined London's St Thomas' Hospital in 1956 as a trainee nurse.

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    BY MATT MUIJEN Let's use it or lose it

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    What events in the 1990s will be considered significant when the history of mental healthcare is written? It is hard to tell because of so many false dawns. Responses to crises have often been little more than superficial public relations jobs coupled with a new tranche of guidance - some ...

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    High hopes

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The need to modernise a dilapidated and obsolete hospital stock was a major problem facing the early NHS. In the first of three articles on the forces that shaped today's NHS estate, Ann Dix investigates the ups and downs of the post war years

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    From showpiece to scrap heap

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    When English Heritage paid a recent visit to St Margaret's Hospital, Swindon, they 'threw up their hands in horror', admits Ian Keeber, the trust's public relations officer.

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    NURSES ARE TELLING US WHY THE GOING IS TOUGH

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Two factors were missing from the otherwise excellent review of the current and predicted nursing shortage ('When the going gets tough', pages 28-31, 26 February).

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    Forward to the past

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Has Gordon Brown already been more generous towards the NHS than a Tory chancellor would have been? John Appleby assesses the background to this week's Budget

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    Food scare?

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Food scare? Not everyone takes willingly to eating greens so dieticians and nurses at Halifax General Hospital dressed up as fruit and vegetables to get children interested in healthy eating. They were helping to promote national food awareness week (9-15 March), masterminded by the British Dietetic Association. Putting the message ...

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    news focus

    1998-03-19T00:00:00Z

    An early version of Welfare to Work, the government's flagship employment policy aimed at getting unemployed young people into work, was test-driven by St James's University Hospital trust, Leeds, a year ago.