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Don't get mugged in London
Capital's managers need strategy to ensure harmony with the new mayor
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Behind closed doors
The selection process for non-executives can be far from fair - and it is easy for the outspoken to find their applications unsuccessful, Madhun Foolchand found
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NHS fights off huge pay-out hike
The NHS has beaten off the threat of a large hike in damages for pain and suffering with the Appeal Court's decision in eight test cases last month to reject a Law Commission recommendation for a rise of 50 to 100 per cent.
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Trusts braced for surge in injury claims
This month sees big changes in the funding of personal injury litigation.
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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.