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Clampdown demanded on enforced treatment
Mental health campaigners are calling on the government to take action against the rising numbers of patients being subjected to enforced treatment.The Mental Health Alliance has drawn up a charter, Care Before Compulsion, to influence future reforms of the Mental Health Act. In 1995,10 per cent of admissions to psychiatric ...
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'No threat' to GMC from new assessment body
The General Medical Council has insisted that it does not see a longterm threat to its role as a regulatory body from the newly created National Clinical Assessment Authority.
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Trust failed to check up on locums
The Commission for Health Improvement has criticised a hospital trust, accusing it of not conducting checks on locum doctors.
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Days like this
Confusion over pace of change. . .Nichol rules out havoc. . .Reform petition fears. . .Fundholder queue-jumping. . .'village idiot'gaffe
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news focus: Bristol
Much of the evidence to the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry makes harrowing reading.Perhaps hardest to bear are the accounts from parents reliving the experiences - in public - surrounding the loss of their child.The next few weeks will bring them back under the public gaze.The three-year inquiry builds on the ...
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A question of trust
The findings from the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry look set to send shockwaves through the NHS.Alison Moore talks to those close to the heart of the matter Bristol has had a vast impact on hundreds, if not thousands of people. By far the biggest effect, of course, has been on ...
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Healing old wounds
Hugh Ross exudes brisk efficiency and steely intelligence. He makes you want to think sharper, sit up straighter.He looks as if he would be very good in a crisis.Which he is.
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'Bristol has completely reorganised the way we think' Alison Moore asked key figures to examine the impact of Bristol on the wider NHS
Dr Norman Pryde Halliday was medical secretary of the supra-regional services advisory group.
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Show some age concern
Do MPs care about the misery generated by bed-blockers and the inadequate care of vulnerable elderly people? Of course they do. But if they care, why do these problems persist?
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Ooo la la! French leave for Brits who tire of the wait
One of my recent pleasures during the working day has been the sight and sound of the Daily Mail, and, more recently, the Conservative leadership candidates, urging that we should all become more European.