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Housing gets £44m from health budget
Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has come under attack after it was discovered that she has agreed to transfer £44m from the health budget to help cut Glasgow city council's £1bn housing debt.
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Wight funding worries persist as single HA follows merger
A single health authority covering south-east Hampshire and the Isle of Wight will come into being on 1 April, following the go-ahead for a merger of the existing authorities by junior health minister Gisela Stuart.
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The go-between
Remuneration and a settlement won't always heal the wounds. Danny Lee looks at the reasons why mediation is seen as a more humane and less damaging way to deal with negligence claims
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After the mediation: what they said
The claimant: 'I couldn't have done it without [my wife]. Because of her support and because she was part of it. She lived through it with me all the time and she went through hell as well, a kind of psychological hell. She was part of the battle.'
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How it works
In mediation, three rooms are normally booked in a hotel or conference centre convenient to the parties. There is one room for each party and one central room, called the caucus, where each party can address the other over a table.
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Red light alert
Failure to meet the NHS plan's performance targets will mean being classified as a 'red-light' organisation in need of special measures. This will have legal implications for both patients and trusts alike, writes Melanie Print
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Damage limitation
Disciplinary procedures against doctors are complex, time-consuming and expensive. The NHS plan proposes mechanisms to cut this burden. But problems remain, not least that doctors may not welcome the proposals. Peter Edwards explains
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Why disciplinary cases can flounder
A trust received a number of allegations that during the course of consultations a staff-grade doctor had questioned patients about intimate aspects of their sex lives.
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A swing too far?
Paying the private sector to treat NHS patients raises issues of accountability, when things go wrong. John Holmes reports
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Recruitment process makes a mockery of Nolan rules
HSJ sources have attacked the process by which 'the second most important job in the NHS' went to a regional director without the job being advertised.
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Cancer snapshot 'falsely positive'
The NHS organisations chosen by the Commission for Health Improvement to provide a 'snapshot' of progress in reforming cancer services may offer a falsely positive picture, an HSJ survey has found.
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Call for sacking of chair who planned to reinstate sex pest
Unison is campaigning for the dismissal of a trust chair who was part of a panel which planned to reinstate a paramedic team leader sacked for sexually harassing a young female colleague.
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Managers welcome director of NHS Wales as 'one of their own'
A trust chief executive from Bristol has been appointed as the new director of the NHS in Wales.
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monitor
The mountainous world of NHS recruitment gets overshadowed, fears Monitor, by molehills in matters of sport. Luckily funzine HSJ has no time for nonentities of the Kevin Keegan variety when there are real celebs like Nige Crisp to worry about. But this week, the dizzy worlds collide, as a former ...
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Two-trust plan 'may lead to ghettoisation'
Plans to create two primary care trusts to cover a city centre are being fought by the local authority which says that it will divide the city along racial and social lines.
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Litigation threat if CHCs go
The Law Society is backing community health councils in their fight for survival - and warning that abolition could increase litigation costs to the NHS and patients.
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Days like this
William Waldegrave has replaced Kenneth Clarke as health secretary in a move seen as an indication that the government does not regard the internal market reforms as a vote winner. It is understood Mr Clarke accepted his new job, at education, reluctantly.
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Quietly does it
The NAPC annual conference was a politically subdued affair this year. Everybody happy, then - or just too busy getting on with the job? Paul Stephenson reports
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Breaking the cycle
Some brave souls are arguing that a future petrol blockade could be just the impetus the NHS needs to rethink its attitude to environmental issues. Ann McGauran reports
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Getting friendly: hospital buildings of the future
Architecture practice Llewelyn Davies says the NHS has been trying to introduce sustainability in new hospital design 'within pragmatic limits'.