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Director sues trust for negligence during birth
The clinical director of the accident and emergency unit at Southend Healthcare trust is suing the trust for negligence after he intervened to resuscitate his new-born daughter.Dr Gerard Lane, now working in Belfast, is taking action on behalf of his daughter Heather who was born in September 1998 and is ...
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Trust apologises over defence-agency skin sales
Salisbury Health Care trust has apologised for not making it clear to plastic surgery patients that their surplus skin would be sold for chemical weapons research.The trust sold skin removed during breast and abdominal surgery to the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency at Porton Down for £17,000 a year.The trust ...
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Working group to tackle maternity services crisis
A new working group made up of representatives of health authorities and senior figures from the royal colleges of midwives, paediatricians, and obstetricians and gynaecologists is set to tackle the ongoing crisis in NHS maternity services.Leaked details of previous joint royal college reports, which have remained unpublished, have called for ...
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Review reveals failings in psychiatric hospitals
A Social Services Inspectorate review of the effectiveness of services for people who are detained in psychiatric hospitals reveals a catalogue of shortcomings, including a severe shortage of black and Asian social workers.The survey of 10 local authorities across England reveals that management oversight varied considerably from authority to authority, ...
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Work hurdles for those with mental health problems
People with mental health problems face significant hurdles in trying to return to employment, a survey by UK forum Focus on Mental Health has revealed.The report, led by charity the Mental Health Foundation, found that just 15 per cent of respondents were employed.Of that small group,57 per cent regard their ...
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HAs left in dark as DoH neglects merger criteria
Health authorities struggling to adapt as primary care trusts take over their functions are working in the dark, in the absence of Department of Health guidance on criteria for mergers.
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Patients' groups angered by exclusion
Two major patients' organisations have expressed anger after they were left out of a Department of Health advisory group drawing up new guidance on getting patients' consent to treatment.
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Confed and LGA re-ignite row over care trust representation
Conflict between the NHS Confederation and the Local Government Association over how care trusts will be run reignited this week, when MPs discussed the new bodies.
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Mutual benefits
Providing advice on benefit entitlements and debt in a primary care setting can help people who might not otherwise have sought advice. Richard Bundy reports
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monitor
Monitor has been watching the appointment of our new top nurse - a lady and an American! - with excitement. Those RCN members not mutinously muttering 'who she?' about their new American general secretary Beverly Malone seem keen to offer themselves as her new best friend. The RCN's website discussion ...
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Dear Mel. . .
What exactly is this Nyebevan thing people keep talking about in the NHS ? What did it do and why is it important ?
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Trusts' debts threaten Scottish acute review
Implementation of reviews of acute services across Scotland may be threatened by the escalating debt faced by many trusts.
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Bill 'should increase openness'
Local government scrutiny of the NHS is set to bring more health service information into the public domain, MPs heard last week.
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Days like this
The future of the government's waiting-list initiative is in doubt because of a row over how the £35m for 1991-92 is to be spent. Crisis talks are taking place between health minister Virginia Bottomley and John Yates of Birmingham University, who heads a project targeting the NHS's worst lists. He ...
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The age of consent
How well-founded are fears that the Redfern report on Alder Hey will produce a raft of new procedures and regulations that will hamper vital clinical research? Thelma Agnew reports
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Join the club
Doctors agree that the GMC's old-boy network image must go. But they are arguing about how to achieve this, as Mark Gould explains
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Ill effects
Software for the NHS's new integrated payroll and human resources system is set to include a controversial 'scoring'system that some say drives staff to work when they are ill. Chris Gallagher reports
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Hic hic hooray
The government may at last be getting somewhere with its national strategy on alcohol misuse - but what are A&E staff already doing to manage the problems they encounter? Lynn Eaton reports
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Over the threshold
Bradford combines measures of both frequency and duration of absence, with a greater weighting placed on frequency. The formula S2D, or S x S x D, is used to calculate a 'score'or 'index'for a given period, usually a rolling year, where S is the number of spells of absence, and ...
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Drinking-up time: how one hospital tackles alcohol-related attendances
At the top of every accident and emergency form at London's St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, is a checklist of 10 conditions most likely to be alcoholrelated. These include a fall, collapse, fits, head injury, assault, self-neglect, feeling unwell, non-specific gastro-intestinal complaints, psychiatric problems, cardiac problems and just being a ...