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King's Fund finds interpretation services are 'vital'
A King's Fund report has concluded that interpretation and advocacy services in primary care are 'vital' for meeting government targets for improving health among ethnic minority communities. The report calls for their 'precarious' funding position to be addressed.
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Hawker in the chair at BMA consultants committee
Peter Hawker, deputy chair of the British Medical Association's consultants and specialists committee, has been elected as its chair. Dr Hawker, a consultant gastroenterologist at Warwick Hospital, succeeds James Johnson, who held the post for four years.
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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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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