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    'Fantastically different': Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Five years since the opening of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Pam Castro still gets people saying: 'Oh my God,

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    Cold remedies

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    As winter pressures begin to bite, one health authority is better able to cope, thanks to multi-agency workshops which also involved local elderly people.

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    Taking the pressure off

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Ideas from the workshops

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    Quasi for you

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    A revolution in social policy: quasi-market reforms in the 1990s Edited by Will Bartlett, Jenny Roberts and Julian Le Grand The Policy Press 341 pages £16.95

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    Revolution comes full circle

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Rethinking IT and health Edited by Jo Lenaghan Institute for Public Policy Research 160 pages £7.50

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    Country and western

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Critical challenges for healthcare reform in Europe Edited by Richard Saltman, Josep Figueras and Constantino Sakellarides Open University Press 424 pages £19.99

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    Back-injury case paves way for delayed claims

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    legal briefing

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    Trust faces pay-out for death of heart patient

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Norfolk and Norwich Health Care trust faces a fine of more than £20,000 after admitting breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, causing the death of a patient.

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    Mediation's time has come

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Is there a message for the NHS in the agreement by 14 insurers in the professional indemnity field to use mediation rather than litigation to settle claims when possible?

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    in brief

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Applicants who are refused legal aid in medical negligence cases will be able to have the merits of their case reviewed by the charity Action for Victims of Medical Accidents under new arrangements being introduced by the Legal Aid Board. AVMA will draw up an independent report, to be available ...

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    in person

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Royal Berkshire Ambulance trust also has two new non-executive directors. They are Kenrick Sealy, a management consultant and nurse adviser, and Ian Mihell, a retired local authority manager.

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    news

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has announced a £700,000 increase in funding for Scotland's air ambulance service. It will get two new helicopters and more paramedics to extend cover for remote and rural communities from 10 hours a day to 24.

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    Reconfiguration to slash Welsh trusts

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Welsh secretary Alun Michael has announced that the number of Welsh trusts will be slashed from 26 to 16 on 1 April.

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    Research warns over PCG size

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Primary care groups covering 100,000 patients may be too big to produce the loyalty and cohesion needed for an innovative, locally focused service, a report on a flagship total purchasing project has concluded.

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    Central support available for PCGs if HA liabilities threaten

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Central support will be available 'in exceptional cases' to ensure primary care groups are not knocked off course by 'unacceptably high' health authority liabilities.

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    Tobacco white paper focuses on preventing child smoking

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    New measures to try to prevent children starting to smoke were expected to be outlined today in the government's long-awaited tobacco white paper.

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    Huge NI hospital shake-up in bid to secure future of acute service

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    A radical shake-up of Northern Ireland's hospitals has been launched by the government in a bid to end uncertainty about the future of acute services.

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    Chiefs' pay rises crash through limit

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    Northern Ireland health minister John McFall has ordered a review of trust chief executives' pay after annual reports disclosed that 16 out of 20 have received increases exceeding government guidelines.

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    Winyard in 'take care' message

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    NHS Executive medical director Graham Winyard has urged health service managers to take better care of their own health.

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    Putting it Right: the proposals

    1998-12-12T00:00:00Z

    12 local hospitals providing day surgery, outpatient and diagnostic services, a local accident unit, telemedicine and GP beds.