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Sit up, take notice
A survey of 5,000 patients at a Scottish trust shows hospital experience is often uncomfortable, unco-ordinated, lacking privacy, alienating, noisy. Pat Straw and colleagues report
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A credit to us all
Recruiting clinical support workers eased the pressure on a trust's hardpressed junior doctors and solved its staffing problems, writes David Wright and colleagues
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Variations on a team
A 24-hour interdisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation of patients has reduced lengths of stay and cut patient complaints to zero.Penny Spreadbury and Kay Riley report
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Whistleblower grievances open to public
A new route has opened up for journalists keen to sniff out stories about what is going on in the nation's hospitals.
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Mirror in mole appeal
Privacy and open justice clashed in the whistleblower case (above), and open justice won.
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14-year wait for award
The High Court approved a £1m settlement last month for Matthew Pearson, 15 this month, who was left with cerebral palsy after his mother, a nurse, underwent an emergency Caesarean section at his delivery.
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In Brief: The Employment Appeal Tribunal
Employment tribunals can be dangerous places. The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee alleging race discrimination could launch a new claim of victimisation based on evidence the employers gave at the tribunal hearing the race claim.
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In Brief: Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill
Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill ran out of time for debate and will not now become law. The bill would have prevented doctors withholding nutrition and hydration in cases where patients are not dying - like that of the Hillsborough disaster victim Tony Bland, who spent years ...
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monitor
Week in, week out, Monitor distorts the charming foibles of the NHS into something tawdry. Cheap digs at bureaucracy's inability to use the humble apostrophe correctly, relentless double entendres and a near obsession with the oversights of Britain's hardest working PRs. Smutty jokes about German professors with rude names getting ...
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Bordering on the unsatisfactory
Public health policies in the European Union Edited by Walter Holland and Elias Mossialos Ashgate 398 pages £50
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Let's stat at the very beginning
Statistical analysis in primary care Edited by Nigel Mathers, Martin Williams and Beverley Hancock Radcliffe Medical Press 113 pages £15.95