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Pay-outs set to soar after interest judgement
Compensation for large medical negligence claims is set to soar by up to 30 per cent, following a landmark judgment by the House of Lords. The ruling followed appeals in three cases of catastrophic injuries, including a birth injury case.
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Court of Appeal ruling on Caesarean rights
The Court of Appeal has issued guidelines following a spate of cases in which women were forced to undergo Caesarean sections against their will. Most of the women were mentally competent and therefore legally entitled to say no to the treatment - a subtlety of medical law apparently not grasped ...
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Mental health law changes likely in capacity-to-consent grey area
Changes to mental health law and practice are likely to follow the judgment of the House of Lords in L v Bournewood Community and Mental Health trust, in which the law lords approved the practice of informally admitting apparently compliant patients who lack the capacity to consent.
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In brief
Pressure for higher medical negligence awards - at least in no- win no-fee cases - could come in the Modernisation of Justice Bill expected in the autumn. The government favours making unsuccessful defendants pay the insurance premium and the lawyers' 'success fee' - the increase on normal fees in no-win ...
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Monitor
Life-long learning is a wonderful thing. So Monitor leapt joyously out of bed at 6.10am one day last week to watch episode 12 in the BBC2 series running alongside the Open University's social science foundation course. And who was the bearded man spouting forth on regional policy in the midst ...
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Sure thing
Several Midlands community schemes to help poor families are potential models for the government's pre-school Sure Start scheme. Pat Healy examines their impact
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Morale victory
The battle for Bart's came to typify patients' fears and managers' frustrations about the changes to the NHS everywhere. Mark Gould reports
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An opportunity to sit down and discuss pay for today
But if staff- side organisations can't agree, what hope of a national deal?
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Not such a premium service
'It is almost impossible to buy a traditional indemnity health plan in New York. Most of the insurance companies don't offer them any more and those that do are unaffordable for all but Bill Gates'
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Fathers' children are not part of the eligibility criteria for infertility treatment
I was surprised to read in your cover feature 'The cost of living' (pages 22-25, 23 July) that Shetland health board operates an eligibility criterion for assisted conception which states 'no living children fathered by current partner'.
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Unequal access is a problem at tertiary level, but couples can be helped by primary and secondary care
The cover feature 'The cost of living' highlighted the lack of equal access to assisted conception treatments.
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As seen on TV
Hospitals are often approached by television programme-makers, eager for news footage, a good film location or a subject for a major documentary. Patrick Butler looks at the pros and cons of letting the cameras in
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Cancer care on camera
George Cathro is making a television series on cancer care at the Western General Hospitals trust in Edinburgh. The project was partly inspired by personal experience - both his parents died of cancer.