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Heart of darkness
A shake-up of transplant services may outlaw racist conditions, but will it do anything to address the shortfall in available organs, asks Barbara Millar
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Whitewash: the demands of a bereaved family
In July 1998, a man was admitted to Sheffield's Northern General Hospital in a critical condition. Following brain-stem testing and confirmation that he was dead, the hospital's transplant co-ordinator discussed organ donation with the patient's family.
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Power with responsibility
Harold Shipman has now spent the first four weeks of the rest of his life in prison. The NHS, meanwhile, will have to grapple for some time to come with the issues his case has raised.
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WEB WATCH
Five years have passed since the then Conservative government asked the Clinical Standards Advisory Group to review services for children with cleft lip and palate, and two years have gone by since it reported back. But progress to date on putting its sweeping proposals for consolidation and reform into practice ...
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Grey matters for the Milburnians
The first thing I did when I heard that Alan Milburn was making sweeping changes in the Department of Health's top management structure after Sir Alan Langlands' sudden departure was to ring a well-placed senior official close to the top of the Whitehall tree.
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Scapegoats in the wilderness
Sir Alan Langlands is not alone in leaving his job sooner than expected. But at least he left amicably - unlike other victims of the NHS's habit of ridding itself of chief executives in mid-contract. It's such a waste, says Andrew Wall
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If I may be so bold. . .
Some of the civil servants running the NHS Executive haven't had an operational role in the health service for years. Ray Rowden says it's time to put top clinicians and managers at the centre
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Birds of a feather
Surely a community trust that helps PCGs move to PCT status is signing its own death warrant? Barbara Kennedy takes a more positive view
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Super groupers
Inclusivity and partnership will be major features of PCG clinical governance plans, due next month. Jenny Cook looks at how one practice tackled the issues
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Central line on the tubes
A new structure for regulating genetic medicine is designed to be more receptive to public concerns than the current set-up. Timothy Milewa and Michael Calnan ask if it can succeed
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Managers are bearing brunt of fraud probes
Managers and administrative workers are subject to more fraud investigations than any other NHS staff group, according to an unpublished document compiled by the Department of Health's new fraud squad.
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Sex discrimination case dismissed
A woman NHS manager has lost her claim for sex discrimination and unfair dismissal at a Berkshire employment tribunal.