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    A credit to us all

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Recruiting clinical support workers eased the pressure on a trust's hardpressed junior doctors and solved its staffing problems, writes David Wright and colleagues

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    Variations on a team

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    A 24-hour interdisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation of patients has reduced lengths of stay and cut patient complaints to zero.Penny Spreadbury and Kay Riley report

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    Whistleblower grievances open to public

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    A new route has opened up for journalists keen to sniff out stories about what is going on in the nation's hospitals.

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    Mirror in mole appeal

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Privacy and open justice clashed in the whistleblower case (above), and open justice won.

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    14-year wait for award

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    The High Court approved a £1m settlement last month for Matthew Pearson, 15 this month, who was left with cerebral palsy after his mother, a nurse, underwent an emergency Caesarean section at his delivery.

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    In Brief: The Employment Appeal Tribunal

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Employment tribunals can be dangerous places. The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee alleging race discrimination could launch a new claim of victimisation based on evidence the employers gave at the tribunal hearing the race claim.

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    In Brief: Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill ran out of time for debate and will not now become law. The bill would have prevented doctors withholding nutrition and hydration in cases where patients are not dying - like that of the Hillsborough disaster victim Tony Bland, who spent years ...

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    in person

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Chris Potter has been appointed chief executive of Dudley health authority.Mr Potter was previously director of finance and deputy chief executive at Dudley.He was promoted following the retirement of Henry Foster as chief executive.

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    Events

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 020-7874 0254. E-mail: ulij@healthcare.emap.co.uk Due to pressure on space, publication cannot ...

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    monitor

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Week in, week out, Monitor distorts the charming foibles of the NHS into something tawdry. Cheap digs at bureaucracy's inability to use the humble apostrophe correctly, relentless double entendres and a near obsession with the oversights of Britain's hardest working PRs. Smutty jokes about German professors with rude names getting ...

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    Bordering on the unsatisfactory

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Public health policies in the European Union Edited by Walter Holland and Elias Mossialos Ashgate 398 pages £50

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    Let's stat at the very beginning

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Statistical analysis in primary care Edited by Nigel Mathers, Martin Williams and Beverley Hancock Radcliffe Medical Press 113 pages £15.95

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    monitor

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Monitor has it on top authority that best Brownie Yvette C loves 'men's health' and is keen to push it to the top of the public health agenda. Always happy to help, Monitor brings research from German professor Peter Karl, who found that boys are spending up to 80 per ...

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    Dear Mel. . .

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Every time I see that Milburn chap on the telly I have a panic attack because my boss, the chief exec, will ask me about it the following day. The problem is that I never know what he's talking about.

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    in person

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Dr Chris Burke has been appointed chief executive of Stockport trust, which was formed by a merger of Stockport Healthcare trust and Stockport Acute Services trust on 1 April. Dr Burke was formerly acting chief executive of the new organisation.

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    Events

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Items are entered free for public sector, voluntary and professional organisations, but we need at least six weeks' notice of your event. Please send details to Uli Jaeger, HSJ , Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. Fax: 020-7874 0254. E-mail: ulij@healthcare.emap.co.uk

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    Caution urged on use of private homes

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Health and social services managers have urged the government to take a cautious approach to proposals to combat bed shortages by transferring elderly NHS patients to private nursing homes.

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    Tea's maid

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Steph Clarke, haemotology and blood bank nurse at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, takes a break in its cyber cafe.

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    Chief and deputy suspended after waiting-list confusion

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    The chief executive of Plymouth Hospitals trust and his deputy have been suspended after an investigation into waiting lists.

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    Cancer centre roof collapse closes beds

    2000-05-04T00:00:00Z

    A leaking roof at a regional cancer centre forced the closure of 15 out of 60 beds last week and led to the suspension of 20 patient treatments.