All UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF MORECAMBE BAY NHS TRUST articles – Page 22

  • News

    Pump up the volume

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    Claims that the NHS was on the verge of crisis helped break the petrol tankers' blockades. Was the health service used and abused? Lyn Whitfield and Mark Gould investigate

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    'Red alert' removed as petrol crisis ends

    2000-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The NHS was taken off 'red alert' on Monday as fuel supplies started to return to normal following the blockade of oil refineries.

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    'Climate of fear' mars push to create PCTs

    2000-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The government is at risk of 'derailing' its own reform of primary care, according to research by the NHS Alliance.

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    Speed bumps

    2000-06-29T00:00:00Z

    The pressure is on for PCGs to convert to trust status, but many of those who oppose the move argue that it's too much too soon. Daloni Carlisle reports

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    in person

    2000-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Dr Susanna Lawrence has been appointed chair of Leeds health authority. She is a practising GP in Chapeltown, a member of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, and was previously a nonexecutive director of the HA.

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    In person

    1999-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Brendan Ryan has been appointed medical director at South Manchester University Hospitals trust. He succeeds Dr Philip Jones, who stepped down recently after a period of ill-health. Mr Ryan is a consultant in accident and emergency medicine and was formerly one of two trust associate medical directors.

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    NHS told to recruit 1,000 from New Deal

    1999-10-28T00:00:00Z

    Managers have been given strict deadlines to recruit 1,000 unemployed people into the NHS after official figures revealed a poor uptake of the New Deal welfare-to-work scheme.

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    Variations enigma

    1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

    general practice:

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    Primary care indicators project: who took part

    1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

    Each HA's allocated number provides the key to the bar charts.

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    Breast screening halted in Cumbria

    1999-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Health service managers were due to hold crisis talks this week after breast screening services in one of England's most sparsely populated counties collapsed.

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    monitor

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has been up and running since 9am and already Monitor is bored with the New NHS. Time to move on from NICE to NASTY - and the big question: just who will get the top job at the Commission for Health Improvement? Monitor can ...

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    Quarter of PCGs start without a chief executive

    1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

    One primary care group in four will go live today without a chief executive in post, an HSJ survey has revealed.

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    All hands on deck

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The former admiral seconded to Ashworth Hospital in the wake of the damning Fallon report has his work cut out. Laura Donnelly looks at the options

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    Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region.

    1998-07-30T00:00:00Z

    Two new health authority chairs have been appointed in the North West region. Alan Bullen, who is leader of West Lancashire district council, becomes chair of South Lancashire HA. Vourneen Darbyshire, a solicitor, becomes chair of North West Lancashire HA. She is a former non-executive director of Blackpool, Wyre and ...

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    in person

    1998-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow Royal Infirmary University trust medical director Bill Anderson (above) has taken over as the trust's acting chief executive. He replaces Nigel Clifford who has left to join Cable & Wireless.

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    in person

    1998-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Ian Cumming (above) has become chief executive of the recently created Morecambe Bay Hospitals trust. He was formerly chief executive of Lancaster Acute Hospitals trust and oversaw its merger with Furness Hospitals trust and Westmorland Hospitals trust to form the organisation he now leads.