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Barristers were up in arms when the top 40 legal aid earners were 'named and shamed' by the Lord Chancellor's Department. One QC, who often acts for plaintiffs in medical negligence cases, and was paid more than pounds300,000 from the legal aid fund in 1996-97, protested that he won 82 ...
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University challenge
Health service managers are moving into university research and development posts, bringing extra funds in their wake, and getting a chance to work more analytically and reflectively, reports Bernadette Friend
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Jackie Ford scoffs at the slightest suggestion that leaving the NHS for university life is a soft option.
To nail home her point she will reel off a list of performance measures and targets she has to meet which are, she says, every bit as demanding as those she faced in the health service.
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This week
Health check: public health minister Tessa Jowell arriving at the Langham working men's club, north London, where she launched a men's health campaign aimed at the over 40s. Club member Steve Connell, aged 44, is having his blood pressure taken by Ian Banks, head of the British Medical Association's men's ...
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MPs condemn standard of leadership at heart of NHS
MPs this week condemned the 'poor care and poor management' of many trusts and health authorities investigated by the health service commissioner and demanded that NHS central management take a closer interest in the performance of all NHS bodies.
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Green light for health and social care trust
Health and local authority chiefs have given the go-ahead to plans for the first mental health and social services trust outside Northern Ireland.
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CHCs attack bids to remove chairs
Community health council leaders are calling for a review of rules amid fears that health officials are seeking to oust effective CHC chairs.
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Scots waiting lists reach an all-time high
The number of people waiting for treatment in Scottish hospitals has risen to an all-time high, despite Labour promises to reduce waiting lists.
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Teenagers are 'badly let down by managers'
Teenagers are being badly let down by NHS managers, who are leaving them to languish in adult wards and failing to develop services for their specific needs, a health consortium claims.
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Galbraith is asked to explain board sackings
A university principal has written to Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith saying he wants an explanation for the sacking of four non- executive directors from Tayside health board before he will nominate someone to fill one of the vacant posts.
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Glimmer of hope for Lighthouse after Treasury approves emergency loan
A London health authority has been given Treasury approval to make a loan of up to pounds925,000 to keep the London Lighthouse centre for people with HIV and AIDS going until the end of
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Naeem Chaudry from Edinburgh's new interpretation and translation service shows Edinburgh Royal Infirmary clerical officer Annette Perfect (far left) and auxiliary nurse Christina Johnston how patients can request its services using leaflets printed in different languages. ITS can provide interpreters and translations in 30 languages. It can also provide signers ...
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Ashworth managers 'retreat' over shift patterns
Managers at the troubled Ashworth top-security hospital are set to reverse unpopular working patterns, union officials claimed this week.
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Scots trusts told to open PFI plans to public scrutiny
Scottish trusts have been told to open up key private finance initiative documents to public scrutiny.
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Parting of ways on Whitechapel project
A trust involved in a high-profile private finance initiative project parted company with its private partner last week.
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Doubts cast on dramatic fall in hospital deaths
Hospital deaths and emergency admissions have fallen dramatically at trusts taking part in a programme to tackle poor clinical outcomes.
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Primary care group money fails to quell fears as GPs deliver ultimatum
Ministers last week pledged a pounds22m boost for the new primary care groups but failed to allay doctors' fears about the way the changes are being managed.
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Holy alliance:
Holy alliance: Reverend John Palin, chaplain for Doncaster Healthcare trust, in front of one of six new hand-crafted stained glass windows in St Catherine's chapel at the multi-faith Spiritual Care Centre, which recently opened in Tickhill Road Hospital's former Oak ward. Local artist Alan Moston created the windows, which depict ...