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    Bristol inquiry publishes agenda

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    The inquiry into the Bristol child heart surgery tragedy, due to begin in March, has published a list of the main issues it will examine in the first phase of hearings.

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    Ministers want single pay review body structure as part of modernisation drive

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Ministers floated their first thoughts on how the proposed new pay system for the NHS might work this week - just as they are gearing up to announce this year's pay awards, which sources say will be on 4 February.

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    PCG polls 'should not be run by HA'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    An investigation into a botched primary care group election in Birmingham has recommended that future polls should not be handled by health authority officers.

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    'Laid-back' attitude to violence against nurses

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Nurses are more at risk from violence at work than any other profession, according to a new report from the Trades Union Congress which says violence is 'endemic' in hospitals.

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    Tribunal ruling significance played down

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Managers have played down the significance of an employment appeal tribunal ruling hailed as a major boost for family-friendly policies by union leaders.

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    Fixer's trust has bad debts

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A top NHS manager drafted in to troubleshoot at a London trust facing a £6m deficit has admitted his own trust has run up a £3m bad debts loss.

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    Making a point:

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Making a point: a midwife signs a postcard backing a Royal College of Midwives campaign for a 'fair deal' on pay and action to tackle staff shortages. The RCM hopes to deliver 30,000 postcards to Parliament to 'maintain pressure' on ministers in the run-up to an announcement by the nursing, ...

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    SHORT CUTS

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Drugs firm and NHS to fund diabetes research centre

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    Commissioners call for spending boost to finance free elderly care

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    What the commission recommends

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    High Court backs HA on 'downgrade'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Campaigners who took Worcestershire health authority to court, claiming a consultation exercise on plans to downgrade Kidderminster General Hospital was 'dishonest', have been defeated.

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    Managers 'will bear the brunt of GP overspend'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Managers could bear the brunt of unpopular measures to deal with GP overspends in the reformed NHS, the Office of Health Economics has predicted.

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    Executive steps in to prevent GP 'carve-up'

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    A regional office has stepped in to prevent a health authority paying GPs to manage a primary care group instead of appointing a chief executive.

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    Days like this

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Importing radical health reforms... Broadmoor managers... local health councils... nurses' pay... banning eggs from hospitals...

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    Fancy brick work

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    How much support exists for the health select committee's proposal to integrate fully health and social services, wonders Pat Healy; 'Bringing them together would be a disaster. You can't force people to work together'

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    Getting the cold shoulder

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Has Sam Galbraith's personal winter crisis damaged his chances of becoming Scotland's first health minister? Colin Wright reports; 'For a man who was presented as a 'safe pair of hands', he has begun to look a little clumsy'

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    White goods

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's public health white paper is due early next month. Barbara Millar reports on what is likely to be in store

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    Upheaval, mayhem, poor morale - and all for what? Merger mania is causing seismic shifts that may not fulfil expectations

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    On 1 April the NHS structure throughout the UK will look radically different to how it did just 23 months earlier when Labour came to power. A decade ago, the service protested shrilly against the pace of change instigated by the Thatcher reforms; the internal market took three years to ...

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    Same again but with a difference The only real option open to Labour is to fund the nurses' pay award

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Ministers are currently having that hardest of lessons about the NHS rammed down their throats - namely, that no matter how much money you allocate to it, sooner or later (usually sooner) it will raise a cacophonous clamour for even more.

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    A come-back for public service

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    'The desire to preserve and improve 'our' NHS is still strong enough to bind individuals through enormous changes'

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    WEB WATCH

    1999-01-21T00:00:00Z

    Do you ever feel you were robbed of the opportunity to develop UK foreign policy towards Tashkent or to draft white papers on white fish quotas - and all because you got such bad careers advice at school?