All News articles – Page 2286

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    Skye's the limit

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Airline-style bookings, where patients know the date of their hospital appointments when they leave their GP, is part of a drive to improve electronic communications in the NHS in Scotland. Barbara Millar reports

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    Jobs can be made for sharing

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Sue Williams and Sue Osborn work for Barking and Havering health authority and have the only chief executive job-share in the NHS.

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    IHSM losses mount as turnover plummets

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    The Institute of Health Services Management crashed to a pounds180,000 operating loss last year as turnover dropped below pounds2m for the first time in six years and membership continued its slow downward spiral.

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    Holding the line

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Milton Keynes had a lively bank holiday weekend judging by calls to NHS Direct, the 24-hour helpline launched in March.

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    Sue Machell: 'It's harder for women in a hospital'

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Sue Machell, chief executive of Croydon Community trust, accepts that there is a different culture in the community.

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    Forum to unite quality groups in healthcare

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    A forum bringing together national organisations offering accreditation and other quality assurance services in healthcare is to be launched next month.

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    Juniors praise Milburn on time, jobs and food

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Health minister Alan Milburn won a standing ovation from junior doctors last week with promises to take further action on working hours, improve access to part-time consultant posts and provide better food in trust canteens.

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    Firm pulls out of PFI scheme

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    A contracting firm has pulled out of Scotland's flagship hospital building project a month before contracts were to be signed.

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    Something of the fight?

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    With her appointment as shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe's rehabilitation is complete.

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    White with fear

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    dental nurses at Newcastle Dental Hospital's conscious sedation unit have swapped their white coats for blue polo shirts after research revealed patients' blood pressure rose if taken by staff in more traditional uniforms. The unit specialises in treating people with dental phobias.

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    Widdecombe fare

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Name: Ann Noreen Widdecombe, aged 50, single.

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    An end to polls and wheezes

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    At the 3 July meeting of the NHS Confederation, the Institute of Health Services Management and the International Hospital Federation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NHS, a 'leading national figure' will discuss commitment to the new vision of the NHS. Who is this leading national figure? Is it ...

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    Tube driver equality win may point way for NHS

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Which organisation employs the largest number of women with childcare needs? I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet it's the NHS. So a woman tube train driver's landmark sex discrimination victory bears close study.

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    From dinosaurs to dynamos

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Regarding your feature 'Slow on the uptake' (pages 30-31, 30 April), Brighton Health Care trust introduced centralised equipment hire and a purchase plan to dramatically reduce hire expenditure last September.

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    Dapper Duncan joins Doris at the sharp end

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    It would be fun but wrong to suggest that the flurry of activity from health ministers in the past few days - all those promised extra doctors and hospital 'death lists' - is attributable to Ann Widdecombe's promotion to the shadow Cabinet in William Hague's reshuffle.

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    A 'portfolio' CV with a wide mix of experience

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Andy Leary set himself a target: to become a finance director by the age of 40. On 1 June he achieved his ambition, taking up the post at Lincolnshire health authority. But his route to the job has taken him through a variety of posts at HAs and the NHS ...

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    Short cuts

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Blood service's northern zone faces pounds1m deficit

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    The toolkit for coping with a state of flux

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Project management for health care professionals

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    Rosalynde Lowe: 'It would be very difficult with young children'

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Rosalynde Lowe, chief executive of Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health trust, recommends that women aiming for the top have children early, so they are grown up by the time they reach senior leve.

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    A new look for the millennium The times are changing - and so is HSJ

    1998-06-11T00:00:00Z

    Renewal is a recurring theme of the late 1990s, spurred by the approach of the millennium. Today, this magazine renews itself in a format we are confident will continue to serve our readers' needs into the 21st century. In its 106-year history HSJ has undergone many metamorphoses. One of the ...