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Changing the culture:
Changing the culture: patient advocacy service, Brighton Penny Dunman has worked as patient advocate at Brighton Healthcare trust for over seven years.During that time, she has championed the concerns of many patients and helped to defuse a few time bombs.
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More than a rubber stamp
More than a rubber stamp: the Patients'Cancer Council The Patients'Cancer Council consists of patients, carers and health professionals and has been running at Leicester Royal Infirmary for the past four years.
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Measuring the real impact of medical errors
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues
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Past tense, present imperfect, future unpredictable
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues
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Research in trouble both sides of pond
Are medical errors responsible for as many deaths as believed; how easy is it to predict the future of healthcare; and why are so few doctors embracing scientific research? This month's column examines these issues
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No quick fix
Three years and £14m later, Professor Rudolf Klein asks whether the cost of the Bristol inquiry represents money well spent
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Another minister orders slaughter of cows
Only a few will benefit from U-turn on treatment abroad
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Lost empires peep from the dust
Strategic health authorities are built on ruins of Byzantine civilisation
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Managers cautious as Milburn backtracks on foreign care
Health service managers have expressed caution over moves to allow patients to receive treatment paid for by the NHS in other European countries.
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Sexual assault case triggers calls for change to complaints system
An investigation into shamed GP Peter Green, who was jailed for eight years for sexually assaulting patients, is expected to call for changes to NHS complaints procedures and moves to strengthen GP accountability.
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Trust's open culture praised
The Commission for Health Improvement has praised the 'open culture' of Pinderfields and Pontefract trust, and flagged up its efforts to collect information about risk. It also spoke highly of the trust's attempts to train and educate staff.
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St Helier buys time to revive fortunes
The trust which was the subject of the Commission for Health Improvement's most damning report to date has been given extra time to put together an action plan to turn its fortunes around.