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The American way
The white paper may force the NHS down the route of the US health maintenance organisation, argues Allyson Pollock
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10 projects worth £900m given the green light in second wave of PFI
Ten hospital building projects worth almost £900m were given the go-ahead by ministers this week in a second wave of private finance initiative approvals.
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this week
Unison general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe hits out at ministers' 'reckless' plans to build more hospitals using private finance, at the union's annual healthcare service group conference in Brighton. Delegates condemned the government's decision to stage the 1998 pay review body awards.
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on the record
CLIVE BATES is director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). After gaining an engineering degree from Cambridge University he worked for IBM. In 1992 he joined Greenpeace as a volunteer, working in campaigning and lobbying before taking up his post at ASH last June.
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in person
Stephen Eames (above), chief executive of Havering Hospitals trust, has moved to a new job as project director for acute and specialist services in West Hertfordshire for a year. Mr Eames will take the role of chief executive of two trusts - St Albans and Hemel Hempstead and Mount Vernon ...
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Aid stays as lawyers gear up to no-win no-fee claims
The Lord Chancellor took a breather last month from leafing through wallpaper books, ransacking the nation's art galleries and unearthing abandoned Pugin water closets. Lord Irvine unveiled his long-anticipated legal aid reforms, which were expected to abolish state aid for all money and damages claims and replace it with free ...
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X-ray case tests time-limits rules
A health authority has been rapped on the knuckles by the Court of Appeal for destroying patients' x-rays after three years, in disregard of litigation time limits. West Lancashire HA landed an out-of-time negligence action which it might have avoided had it kept the xrays.
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Casual workers could win employee benefits
Thousands of casual workers may have won the right to holiday pay, maternity leave, sick pay and other employee benefits following a ground-breaking judgement by the Court of Appeal at the end of March. The ruling means that part-time workers without a job contract who work on an 'as required' ...
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In Brief: James Taylor
James Taylor, the consultant paediatric cardiologist at Great Ormond Street children's hospital who was found guilty of serious misconduct by the General Medical Council, had carried out a balloon catheterisation on a six-year-old girl without her parents' consent. Dr Taylor said he thought it was in the patient's best interests.
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In Brief: Patients Association
The public wants legislation to make living wills binding on doctors, according to a MORI poll for the Patients Association. Two out of three of the 1,960 adults surveyed favoured the move.
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In Brief: Public Law Project
The Public Law Project, a charity which helps bring legal challenges to decisions of public bodies, runs an NHS advice line staffed by solicitors for NHS users 'who have problems with NHS bureaucracy'.
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The wait goes on
Latest figures suggest the continuous fall in long waits for hospital admission cannot be sustained. John Appleby reports
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Supertrust signs up £125k chief executive
A £430m new 'supertrust' this week recruited what is thought to be the country's highest-paid chief executive. David Johnson, once a hospital porter, will head Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust. The post carries 'a remuneration package' of around £125,000.
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Ambulance review: future uncertain
Two ambulance trusts have emerged intact, but the future of five others remains undecided under a proposed shake-up of emergency services in the north of England.
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Unison delights in contracts battle 'victory'
Unison this week claimed victory in its battle against trust contracts when Chase Farm Hospitals trust confirmed that new staff would no longer be offered them.
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Colleagues betrayed me, says Bristol doctor
A surgeon told the General Medical Council this week that disloyal doctors spread allegations of the 'awful' death rate of his infant patients throughout England and Scotland without telling him.
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In Brief: Clinical academics
Clinical academics are to receive a staged pay award of 4.2 per cent this year, after the University Colleges Employers Association agreed to translate the recommendations of the doctors and dentists review body into staff salaries. Nonclinical academics will receive a staged award of 3.8 per cent.
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In Brief: Peter West
The NHS could benefit from using some tools of managed care developed in the US, a report by Peter West, senior lecturer in health economics at the United Medical and Dental School of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, has concluded. In his Office of Health Economics report, Dr West says ...
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In Brief: Zito Trust
The Zito Trust has claimed that 40 per cent of homicides in England and Wales are committed by people with a mental disorder and that noncompliance with drugs is a factor in 60 per cent of these cases. The trust says patients need more follow-up in the community and better ...