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Shape up or ship out
More people are heading overseas for non-urgent treatment, many in response to long waiting lists at home. But should the NHS foot the bill? Seamus Ward reports
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Healer's digest
Having meals round a table with other people encourages patients to eat more. Heather Hartwell and John Edwards report
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Picking up the pieces
A jointly funded residential service accepts 'difficult-to-place' mental patients, whose care in the community has previously failed. Andy Ward and Jon Woolmore explain
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Out of harm's way
Doctors who murder are rare. But doctors' deliberate harm to patients is well documented. Paul McDonald argues for better external scrutiny
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New rights act will hit clinical negligence
Trusts are anxiously awaiting 2 October, implementation day for the Human Rights Act, which incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights into English law.
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NHS can insist on advance payments from overseas patients
The NHS can charge in advance for treatment for overseas visitors, two judges have ruled in yet another judicial review.
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in brief: Public Concern at Work
The government is appealing against a High Court judge's ruling, obtained by the whistleblowers' charity Public Concern at Work, that the details of pending applications to employment tribunals should be open to the public. The charity wants to monitor the workings of the Public Interest Disclosure Act, one year old ...
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'Matron' to return with revamped role
Health secretary Alan Milburn is to use the NHS national plan - set to be unveiled next week - to push the concept of a return to 'matron', HSJ has learned.
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Drug companies are invited to have say in service frameworks
The government has asked the pharmaceutical industry to advise and have an input into NHS national service frameworks.
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£1.3bn in free nursing may resolve cares aga
The government looks set to make its long-awaited response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care by replacing means testing with a £1.3bn package for free nursing in care homes for elderly people.
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Brown promises 'major' cash boost for elderly people in national plan
Chancellor Gordon Brown has promised a 'major package of investment in services for elderly people' in next week's NHS national plan.
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In brief: Volatile substance abuse
The annual number of deaths from volatile substance abuse has continued to fall, with a decrease from 74 to 70 deaths in 1998, according to a report from St George's Hospital medical school. The peak of 152 deaths associated with young people sniffing aerosols and glue was in 1990.
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In brief: Staff turnover
Staff turnover rates have risen beyond 50 per cent in the social services departments of London boroughs, according to a survey by the Association of London Government. A vacancy rate of 52 per cent was reported by one borough, while another said its ability to provide a service at all ...
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In brief: Healthcare of refugees
The healthcare of refugees is being marginalised by discrimination and xenophobia, according to the principal family therapist at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, Jeremy Woodcock. He said clinical experience suggested that discrimination contributed to inferior healthcare.