All articles by Lynn Eaton – Page 3
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NHS Pensions Agency 'may be liable for loss'
The NHS Pensions Agency could be held liable for the loss of pension benefits of some of the 18,000 NHS employees who had money invested in troubled insurance company Equitable Life, according to a leading insurance lawyer.
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What the spin doctor ordered
How do you cope if a sick celebrity lands in your hospital? Lynn Eaton finds out
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Glaxo Wellcome man gets top BMA job in break with tradition
In a surprise move, one of the top directors from Glaxo Wellcome, who has no medical qualification, is to take over as secretary of the British Medical Association.
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Gardening leave 'inadequate system for solving disputes'
Senior NHS managers, many of whom are living with the threat of suspension because their face no longer fits, need a formal procedure for when things go wrong.
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Mental health blueprint spells out safety plan for the young
Mental health experts have drawn up a blueprint detailing how the government should deliver its promise to guarantee early and intensive support for young people with psychosis.
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Biotech firm 'will not charge'NHS for breast cancer tests
Scottish biotechnology firm Rosgen has announced that it does not plan to charge the NHS for carrying out tests for mutations in two genes linked to breast cancer.
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A dose of scepticism
As pressure groups, drug companies and others express their doubts about the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Lynn Eaton meets its beleaguered chief executive
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Once bitten. . .
In the third in our series on the government's modernisation plans for the NHS, we look at prevention and inequalities.
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Getting back on its feet
Turning the NHS around has been likened to steering a supertanker: you can't just change things overnight, because the ship has a momentum all its own.
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Private sector may tender in major shake-up of prisons'GP services
A major shake-up in the way GP services are provided in Scottish prisons is being planned - with private healthcare organisations in the frame as a potential provider.
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Late tackle
The government wants NHS staff to help in the fight against crime.But there are misgivings that such collaboration will undermine patient confidentiality. Lynn Eaton reports
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PCGs under pressure to rush status change
Political pressure to produce rapid results and move to primary care trust status may be undermining the ability of primary care groups to achieve long-term change, a report has warned.
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Ethnic babies' death risk doubled
Babies born in the UK to mothers originally from Pakistan or the Caribbean are twice as likely to die in infancy as babies whose mothers were born here, according to the latest report from the Office for National Statistics.
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Fast reactor
No-nonsense, straight-talking action man Mike Deegan has two months to solve the problem of how to improve the NHS. Lynn Eaton gets her stopwatch out
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WHO fires first
Negotiating a ceasefire in the Sudan is just one aspect of the World Health Organisation's plan to eradicate polio. Lynn Eaton reports
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A cat among the pigeons
A proposal that NICE should evaluate the cost-effectiveness of expensive medicines before the NHS prescribes them is ruffling feathers. Lynn Eaton reports
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Over our dead body
The demise of the Clinical Standards Advisory Group begs questions of how different its successor's approach will be. Lynn Eaton reports
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Sticky concoction
The first 17 PCTs - due to start in a fortnight - are putting together their plans, while ministers firm up accountability arrangements.But doesn't it all taste a little of fudge, wonders Lynn Eaton
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Mental health PFI plan agreed at last
Plans to replace 'abysmal' buildings housing mental health services in Leeds have finally got the go-ahead almost a decade after the closure of the sites was first proposed. The £47m deal is the largest ever private finance initiative for mental health services.
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News focus
The Waterhouse report has exposed the failures of local authorities looking after children in care. But the NHS, too, should examine its role in meeting the health needs of this vulnerable group. Lynn Eaton looks at hopes for future partnership
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