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Contract talks gather momentum
The process of negotiating a new national contract for GPs, being led by the NHS Confederation, was formally started last week with the publication of a statement of intent from the confederation and the British Medical Association's GP committee.
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SHA configuration 'too diffuse to be effective'
A meeting of senior health, local government and business representatives in the West Midlands last week reached a consensus that the planned configuration of strategic health authorities and regions will be too large and diffuse to engage effectively with trusts, primary care trusts and local authorities.Participants at the meeting of ...
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SHA configuration 'too diffuse to be effective'
A meeting of senior health, local government and business representatives in the West Midlands last week reached a consensus that the planned configuration of strategic health authorities and regions will be too large and diffuse to engage effectively with trusts, primary care trusts and local authorities.Participants at the meeting of ...
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Compensation win for 'grossly dishonoured' nurse
The High Court has awarded compensation of £140,000 for stress and overwork to a nurse employed by Hastings and Rother trust, saying the trust had 'grossly dishonoured' its promise that she could gradually ease back into her ward sister role after having a baby.Trust chief executive Geoff Haynes said initiatives ...
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Compensation win for 'grossly dishonoured' nurse
The High Court has awarded compensation of £140,000 for stress and overwork to a nurse employed by Hastings and Rother trust, saying the trust had 'grossly dishonoured' its promise that she could gradually ease back into her ward sister role after having a baby.Trust chief executive Geoff Haynes said initiatives ...
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Fight club
The threat of violence towards GPs has led South Essex health organisations to set up a special allocation scheme. Carolyn Larsen and colleagues explain GPs have had the right since 1999 to remove a patient immediately from their list for actual or threatened violence or aggression.
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Fight club
The threat of violence towards GPs has led South Essex health organisations to set up a special allocation scheme. Carolyn Larsen and colleagues explain GPs have had the right since 1999 to remove a patient immediately from their list for actual or threatened violence or aggression.
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Trust clinches PFI deal for medical equipment
A trust which opened a new private finance initiative-funded hospital earlier this year has now signed the first major separate PFI deal to provide medical equipment.
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Trust clinches PFI deal for medical equipment
A trust which opened a new private finance initiative-funded hospital earlier this year has now signed the first major separate PFI deal to provide medical equipment.
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Climate of change delays free nursing
The organisational changes currently underway in the health service were a key factor in the government's decision to delay full implementation of free nursing care paid for by the NHS.
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Climate of change delays free nursing
The organisational changes currently underway in the health service were a key factor in the government's decision to delay full implementation of free nursing care paid for by the NHS.
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Cause and effect
How do chief executives feel about the latest NHS reorganisation? A survey of reactions to Shifting the Balance revealed some disturbing findings.
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Cause and effect
How do chief executives feel about the latest NHS reorganisation? A survey of reactions to Shifting the Balance revealed some disturbing findings.
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Catch phase
The crisis in managing communicable disease will deepen as the NHS reorganisation moves consultants in the specialty into primary care trusts, says Surinder Bakhshi
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Catch phase
The crisis in managing communicable disease will deepen as the NHS reorganisation moves consultants in the specialty into primary care trusts, says Surinder Bakhshi
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Welsh cardiac patients to transfer to Hammersmith
Hundreds of cardiac patients in Wales are to be transferred to Hammersmith Hospital in a bid to cut surgery waiting lists in the principality.Arrangements have been made with St John Ambulance for return transport to the trust, and accommodation for relatives will also be available for the duration of admissions.The ...