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Insurance pooling: a cautionary tale
Municipal Mutual Insurance is often referred to in public sector finance circles as a lesson in the dangers of insurance pooling. The company stopped trading in September 1992 after the intervention of the Department of Trade and Industry, which was worried about the level of Municipal Mutual's reserves. The company ...
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The new insurance pool: what it will include
In August last year, then health minister Alan Milburn announced that from this April English trusts would no longer be allowed to buy their non-clinical insurance on the open market. They would join a new insurance pool, to be administered by the NHS Litigation Authority, the body that looks after ...
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Not so private: views on PFI
'There were a lot of hopes pinned on PFI. I think in terms of its aspirations it was seriously flawed. A lot of the schemes were predicated on pretty poor foundations. The only way they were ever going to be viable was by including so many of the support services ...
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Dobson stalls on proposal for free long-term care
A general welcome for the report of the Royal Commission on Long- Term Care quickly turned to concern this week when the government made it clear that early action was not likely.
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King's Fund criticises spirit and cost of asylum bill measures
Forcing asylum seekers to disperse around the country will cost the NHS money and increase the risk of racial discrimination, the King's Fund has warned.
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PCT guidance slammed as 'confused'
Managers and clinicians have attacked key guidance on developing primary care trusts for being 'confused' and 'disappointing'.
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Deans 'will be liable in bias cases'
Doctors and dentists who teach postgraduate students have been warned they are personally accountable if they discriminate on grounds of sex, race or disability.
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Dobson will identify top executive talent
Health secretary Frank Dobson wants to create a national system for identifying and recruiting a 'cadre of highly-trained professionals' for some of the most demanding chief executive posts in the NHS, it was revealed this week.