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Latest drug trials case claims professor's scalp
The General Medical Council has struck off a former research director for serious professional misconduct in the latest in a raft of cases involving allegations of misbehaviour in clinical drug trials.
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in brief: Employment Appeal Tribunal
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has taken the rare step of branding as 'perverse' a finding by an employment tribunal that a dismissal was fair. A perverse decision has been defined in cases as one which is 'irrational', 'fundamentally wrong', or which 'offends reason' or 'flies in the fact of properly ...
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in brief: Andrew Hobart
Andrew Hobart, chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, has warned that 'the threat of industrial action will not be removed' until an agreement over pay and hours has been agreed with the government. In a letter to all juniors, he described a Department of Health claim that ...
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in brief: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is to receive a £14m grant from the government, international development secretary Clare Short announced last week.
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in brief: Jack Straw
Home secretary Jack Straw has announced the start of a £23.5m support service for prisoners with drug problems. The multiagency Counselling, Assessment, Referal, Advice and Throughcare will aim to identify drug users, support them in prison and coordinate support after their release. It will be available to all prisoners by ...
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in brief: primary care groups
A key responsibility of primary care groups in London will be to improve the quality of primary care itself, according to a new book from the King's Fund. It also argues that the issue of redistributing resources 'must be faced squarely if the new NHS is to make a real ...
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in brief: Doncaster Healthcare trust
Doncaster Healthcare trust and Scunthorpe Community Health Care trust were given ministerial approval to merge on 1 October.
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in brief: Brighton Health Care trust
Brighton Health Care trust will offer surgical patients the chance of having their own blood reinfused, following donation of a Cellsaver machine by Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Plans for mental health could be hard to deliver, experts predict
Managers could find themselves struggling to deliver the new national service framework for mental health, experts have warned.
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'Phone and go' dental schemes receive flak
Patient watchdogs have cast doubt on prime minister Tony Blair's pledge to provide 30 'phone and go' dentist schemes, saying pilots leave significant gaps in service.
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Waiver pays for cancer boost
A VAT waiver lay behind health secretary Frank Dobson's announcement of a further boost to cancer services at the Labour Party conference.
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Managers 'left struggling by pressures of change'
Increasing workload and the pressure of constant change have left London's mental health managers struggling to implement government policy, according to a forthcoming survey.
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Third HA plan follows Assembly pressure
Cash-strapped Dyfed Powys health authority has issued its third set of proposals for dealing with its situation in three years.
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'Champion' of nurses is facing UKCC probe
A senior trust manager chosen to lead a regional taskforce to improve nurses' working lives is being investigated by nursing regulatory body the UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.
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Hearing rejects constructive dismissal claim
A senior health board manager who claimed he was 'turfed out' of his job to make way for a new regime has lost his case for constructive, unfair dismissal.
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Case dropped due to ill-health
A Scottish chief executive suspended from his post over a year ago after allegations of overpayments to senior managers has been allowed to retire and will not now be the subject of a public inquiry.
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CHC appeals to health secretary over cuts
North Staffordshire community health council is to refer plans to reconfigure local services to health secretary Frank Dobson, despite a health authority undertaking to submit a revised proposal for consultation next month. CHC members took the step in protest at North Staffordshire HA's proposal to cut elderly continuing care beds ...