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In Brief: Maximum compensation rise
Maximum compensation for unfairly dismissed staff rose from £12,000 to £50,000 on Monday, but there will be no upper limit on compensation for whistleblowers who lose their jobs. The changes were welcomed by Roger Kline, national health secretary of the MSF union as 'good news for NHS staff ' and ...
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In Brief: South West regional office has completed investigation
South West regional office has completed an investigation into the allegations of financial mismanagement at Cornwall and Isles of Scilly health authority made by the HA's own finance director. Roger Silvester was suspended in May following his comments at a board meeting where he refused to accept the HA's financial ...
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In Brief: Reformed framework for services for mentally ill patients in the community
Health minister John Hutton has launched a reformed framework for services for mentally ill patients in the community. The simplified care programme approach will operate at only two levels, standard or enhanced.
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In Brief: Flu awareness week
Chief Medical Officer Professor Liam Donaldson called on patients in key risk groups to 'go and have a flu jab' as he launched flu awareness week this week. His call was backed by London Ambulance Service trust, which was hit by a sharp rise in the number of 999 calls ...
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In Brief: NHS Direct Essex
A team from Essex social services has moved into NHS Direct Essex's call centre in Chelmsford as part of a pilot project to allow access to social services through the nurse led telephone helpline. NHS Direct Essex will also pilot a scheme allowing nurses to refer callers to pharmacies for ...
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Package deals with drug firms on horizon
Health commissioners will soon be able to enter into US-style package deals with pharmaceutical companies to tackle a range of conditions including asthma, diabetes and heart disease.
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Envelope of Bristol data passed to DoH
A senior Department of Health official was given a sealed envelope containing data about surgical outcomes at the Bristol Royal Infirmary during a taxi ride with 'whistleblower' Dr Stephen Bolsin, the inquiry into baby deaths at the hospital heard this week.
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Langlands points to shared responsibilities of all
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands told the inquiry last week that individuals and 'the system' were responsible for preventing clinical failures.
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Room with a view
Nurse Helen Coppock reflects on her new flat in Poland House, a nine-storey office block refurbished to provide affordable homes for healthcare workers by Peabody Unite and Barts and the London trust. It was officially opened last week.
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'No precedent' for scale of Wales changes
The health service in Wales has faced unprecedented change over the past year, director of NHS Wales Peter Gregory told managers last week.
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MPs put new health ministers on hold to launch inquiry into soaring drug costs
The Commons health select committee has delayed plans to question the new Department of Health ministerial team so it can launch an inquiry into the soaring cost of generic drugs.
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Short Cuts: Wait to see GP is patients' biggest bugbear
People under 45, members of ethnic minorities and Londoners are less satisfied with their GPs than other patients, the first national NHS survey has revealed. Many patients among the 100,000 questioned believe they have to wait too long to see their family doctor. Workers and full-time students were most critical ...
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Short Cuts: Coulter leaves King's Fund to join research body
Dr Angela Coulter is leaving her post as executive director of policy and development at the King's Fund to become chief executive of Picker Europe, a not-for-profit research organisation specialising in patients' experiences of health services. The organisation carried out the first national patient survey for the NHS, published last ...
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Short Cuts: MP says trust chief executive should forego pay-off
An MP has called for a trust chief executive who resigned following a critical NHS Executive report into the death of two patients to forego a £76,000 pay-off. In a House of Commons motion calling for the payment to Clive Uren, former chief executive of Eastbourne Hospitals trust, to be ...
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Short Cuts: Elderly people put their case to Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament has been urged to encourage closer integration of local government and health authorities in an action plan drawn up under three Better Government for Older People projects. Sixty elderly people presented their plan to the ministers responsible for transport and the environment, communities and community care at ...
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Short Cuts: Doctors to get benefits advice training
Doctors are to get special training to improve the quality, consistency and accuracy of medical advice on benefit entitlement, social security minister Hugh Bayley announced last week. He told MPs that he was determined to change the low status of disability assessment medicine in the medical profession and inadequate government ...
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Short Cuts: People with learning disabilities seek independence
A practical guide to help people with learning disabilities achieve independence says they want to live 'ordinary' lives and make their own decisions. The guide says that quality of life for people with learning disabilities would be improved by more information and support, more control over their money, and a ...
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Playing up
Three year old Fajer Al-Otaibi, who is deaf, plays with water at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, helped by play instructor Dionne Moodi.
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First-wave PCTs could number 19
Up to 19 independent primary care trusts could be established in the first wave of the government's reform of community and family health services next April.
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Demand outstrips supply of ICU beds
Demand for critical care beds is outstripping supply despite a rapid growth in bed numbers, an Audit Commission report has found.