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'No win no fee' stakes raised
The ink had hardly dried on judgments in three House of Lords cases which will increase damages awards by up to one-third in big negligence cases, when the Lord Chancellor decided on another reform which will mean higher legal costs for the NHS.
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The Legal Aid Board has agreed, with immediate effect, that it can and will pay for mediation if a case backed by legal aid can be resolved that way. It had initially argued that, by law, its funding covered only traditional dispute resolution - by negotiation or litigation. Mediation could ...
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Ministers and civil servants are using 'pressure and dogma' to co-erce primary care groups towards independent trust status, GPs have warned.
Ministers and civil servants are using 'pressure and dogma' to co-erce primary care groups towards independent trust status, GPs have warned.
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DoH promises £375m for child mental health
Children's mental health services are to be earmarked for extra cash in the government's forthcoming mental health strategy, Department of Health officials confirmed last week.
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New family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.
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The government's response to Utting: main points
All children entering care to be offered a health assessment.
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Crackdown on NHS sickness bill begins
NHS human resources managers are to have new guidance on tackling absenteeism in line with chancellor Gordon Brown's bid to cut £6bn from the public sector staff sickness bill.
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Fatal accident inquiries ordered
The Lord Advocate has ordered fatal accident inquiries into the deaths of two teenagers who were treated at Glasgow Victoria Infirmary.
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Distinct improvement
The Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards is to lose its in-built medical majority, although some doubt this goes far enough to justify the system, reports Mark Crail
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The third man
John Hutton is the third member of a now influential political triumvirate. Patrick Butler reports on the new junior health minister's rise to power
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Anticipating the assembly
How will the national assembly influence healthcare in Wales? The NHS Confederation in Wales' annual conference wanted answers to some basic questions, writes Lyn Whitfield
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Settling in
The NHS is being urged both to improve access to healthcare for refugees and to integrate more refugee doctors into the service. Barbara Millar reports
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Wales' waste of wisdom Election rules mean assembly forgoes much NHS expertise
Devolution offers the people of Wales an unrivalled opportunity to reshape their health service. But if the standard of debate among politicians at the NHS Confederation in Wales' annual conference last week is a foretaste of what can be expected once the Welsh assembly is up and running, there is ...
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Straw's soundbites on psychiatry don't distinguish the 'mad' from the 'bad'
Home secretary Jack Straw's pronouncements on the psychiatric profession should not be allowed to pass without significant public comment and debate.
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WHO study vindicates smokers - so can we be accommodated now?
The findings of the World Health Organisation's research into the alleged risk to non-smokers of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, confirm what a wide range of reputable individuals and organisations have long maintained: that it in no way constitutes the ...
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The human cost of PFI
That unions have won rights to screen private finance initiative bidders' employment records is to be applauded, but what of patients?
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SNP: great intenders will produce policy, but after consultation
In her report on the Scottish National Party's People's assembly on health (News Focus, page 16, 15 October), headed 'SNP: still no policies', Barbara Millar lists SNP plans to establish an all-party Scottish healthcare commission including outsiders with expertise among its ranks, a democratic input into health boards and local ...