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Dobson's partial progress
Dear Frank, a year ago Trevor Sheldon and I offered you a radical, wheeze-free agenda to improve the NHS.
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WEB WATCH
Rumour and speculation are rife during times of change, says Manchester health authority chief executive Neil Goodwin. And the best way to counter them, of course, is to provide access to reliable and comprehensive information - which is just what the HA is doing with its new website.
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Spinal injection damage 'was not negligence'
Sometimes medical treatment goes seriously wrong for reasons nobody can explain. Patients in these cases are apt to reach for their lawyers, and legal advisers to seize on the legal maxim res ipsa loquitur - 'the thing speaks for itself '. In effect, they argue, no healthy person who goes ...
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BMA to appeal over disciplinary procedure ruling
The High Court has upheld the right of trusts to decide which disciplinary procedures to use when doctors are accused of misconduct.
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In brief: Unfair dismissal awards
The government is having second thoughts about removing the ceiling on unfair dismissal awards (now £12,000), which it proposed to abolish in its Fairness at Work white paper. Trade secretary Peter Mandelson is said to be rowing back after an outcry from industry, and the ceiling could instead be lifted, ...
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In brief: Legal Aid Board
The Legal Aid Board is inviting law firms to apply for franchises to handle medical negligence work from January 1999. From summer 1999, only those firms with franchises will be allowed to do such work on legal aid . The change is likely to mean that most large medical negligence ...
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In brief: Civil litigation rules
Civil litigation rules provide for defendants who want to settle a claim to pay money into court.
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Performance indicators
On the eve of new performance indicator frameworks, John Appleby says much useful information remains to be extracted from existing statistics
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A job for strife
The health service commissioner has been investigating patients' complaints for the past 25 years. Richard Oswald, a former NHS manager, looks at the office's past, present and future.
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Counter claims
Remuneration for community pharmacists needs an overhaul. But meanwhile price-fixing on branded drugs must remain, argue John Varnish and colleagues
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New guidance issued to spur joint working
The determination of ministers to force closer co-operation between health and social services is underlined in the first ever joint national priorities guidance, issued last week.