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Disabled given priority on work alternatives
Employees who become disabled and can no longer do their job must be given priority for any alternative vacancies that arise, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled.
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In brief: Employment Appeal Tribunal
A race, sex or disability discrimination claim can go ahead after the applicant's death, the Court of Appeal has ruled, reversing a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. The ruling allows the daughter of a secretary who brought a race discrimination claim against Lewisham and Guy's Mental Health trust to ...
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Action team members deny PR accusations
Senior managers appointed to the government's NHS modernisation action teams have dismissed suggestions that consultation on 'a national plan for health' is an exercise in public relations.
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First joint meeting of ministerial minds
The first meeting of the joint ministerial committee on health promised by prime minister Tony Blair in his post-Budget speech on modernising the NHS took place this week.
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NICE makes 10-year ruling on hips
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has issued guidance on hip replacements, recommending that artificial joints should last at least 10 years in 90 per cent of cases.
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A picture of health
artist Alan Flood sketches head of estates Andy Proud as part of Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust's arts week. The initiative was part of a week-long 'arts extravaganza' to celebrate the relaunch of the trust's arts programme under a new name, Tonic: the arts pick-me-up.
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HAs 'should be paid fully for drugs'
Doctors have demanded that the government pay health authorities the full cost of introducing new drugs available on the NHS.
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PFI-deal trust 'stretched'
The chief executive of a high-profile trust has admitted that its accident and emergency department was 'stretched to the limit' over the winter.
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CHI opts to investigate 'wrong-kidney' scandal
The Commission for Health Improvement is to investigate the trust at the centre of a high-profile kidney surgery blunder just weeks after it said such a move was unlikely.
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In brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association in Northern Ireland has called for an end to 'healthcare policy inertia', with vice-chair of the BMA's consultants and specialists commitee Kanwar Panesar claiming the province was 'almost three years behind the rest of the UK in terms of health service reforms' - a situation that ...
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In brief: Pharmaceutical industry
A taskforce to investigate how to maintain the competitiveness of the UK as a base for the pharmaceutical industry has been announced, chaired by junior health minister Lord Hunt and Dr Tom McKilop, chief executive of AstraZeneca. The taskforce will report to the prime minister.
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In brief: Health Education Authority
Members of the former Health Education Authority's mental health programme have set up a new organisation to support the promotion of mental health. Mentality will seek to help health authorities meet standard one of the national service framework, requiring them to promote mental health and combat discrimination.
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In brief: Performance management framework
A new performance management framework for the NHS in Wales has been published. Deputy health and social services secretary Alun Pugh said this fulfilled 'a key pledge' in the Putting Patients First white paper.
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In brief: Dyfed Powys
A clinical futures group has been set up in Dyfed Powys, chaired by former trust chief executive Dr Norman Mills, to review clinical services and draw up options for change to be implemented in 2000-01.
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In brief: Lord Hunt
Junior health minister Lord Hunt has announced the publication of guidance by the Hospital Caterers Association and NHS Estates on reducing the estimated £45m of food wasted annually in the NHS.
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Spot on
Junior health minister Lord Hunt watches as nurse Susan Taylor applies a tar treatment to fire fighter Peter Kitts at the Prosser White dermatology centre at Leigh Infirmary, which the minister formally opened last week. Ann Le Rougetel White, daughter in-law of Dr Prosser White, a 19th century expert on ...
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Euro ruling will protect junior doctors - in nine years
Junior doctors are to be brought under the provisions of the European working-time directive - but the move will take at least nine years.
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MPs turn tables on Fritchie over bias claims
The row over political bias in the appointment of non-executive directors to trust and health authority boards flared up again this week, with an attack on commissioner for public appointments Dame Rennie Fritchie.