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Unfavourable reference ruled negligent
Job references for former employees who leave under a cloud need to be handled with care, as a recent case shows.
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On a hiding to nothing?
Hammersmith Hospitals trust is preaching an open culture.So why hasn't it released the results of its breast-screening audit, asks Paul Stephenson Concerns about the choice of Hammersmith Hospitals trust medical director Professor Rory Shaw to chair the National Patient Safety Agency have once again thrown the trust into the spotlight.
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Going places
How can emergency admissions be safeguarded at times of major hospital reorganisation?
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Drowning, not waving
Health academics Kieran Walshe and Judith Smith are not convinced by the government's call for yet another deluge of NHS reform.They wonder what, if anything, it will achieve Ministers and civil servants in the Department of Health probably look back nostalgically to Labour's first term in government in 1997 and ...
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MS victim wins HA funds to die at home
A health authority has agreed to fund home care for a terminally ill man who didn't want to die in hospital.
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NurturingTom, Dick and Harry
Afew weeks ago I met an inspiring Australian nurse, probably in his early fifties.
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Design for life
Healthy living centres may be a throwback to the 1960s, but Carol Harris believes they are filling a gap between medical need and community spirit Achiropody clinic for homeless people in London, an exercise programme in the Lake District and a drug education project in Belfast sound like typical community ...
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Days like this
Performance reviews. . .Inner city immunisation. . .Health authority mergers. . .Doubts over 'centre of excellence' Trade union NALGO is calling for changes to individual performance reviews and performancerelated pay, which it claims have fallen into 'disrepute'. In its submission for a 12.5 per cent pay rise for up to ...
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Short cuts
Body proposed to regulate healthcare professionals Modernising Regulation in the Health Professions.DoH. www. doh. gov. uk/modernisingregulation The government has proposed a body to regulate all healthcare professionals, by overseeing the work of the existing regulatory bodies.The work of the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals has been outlined ...
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Ordinary skill is enough for courts
The Bolam test for medical negligence, laid down in a case heard in 1957, is still alive and well.
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TUC chief may opt out of private health scheme
General secretary of the Trades Union Congress John Monks is going to 'look into and possibly review' his membership of a health scheme guaranteeing treatment outside the NHS, according to a union spokesman.
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Celebrity menus prove difficult to swallow
Hospital caterers fear that trusts may not not be able to fund the extra costs of implementing the NHS menu, with dishes created by celebrity chefs costing significantly more than traditional meals.
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Retrial for hernia hearing as case costs pile up
The Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that a surgeon was negligent and has ordered a retrial because the judge gave no reasons for her finding.
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NHS 'could buy other hospitals'
The Department of Health says it will consider repeating the 'renationalisation' that saw the NHS buy the private Heart Hospital in London, now under the control of University College London Hospitals trust.
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News in Brief
The government's reliance on the private sector in the NHS will be undermined by the service's 'dreadful' business reputation, according to healthcare consultant Newchurch.It claims the NHS is seen by the private sector as costly and time-consuming in its procedures and 'notoriously fickle' in its attitude.'There is no great queue ...
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Lack of staff blocks joint working
Meeting the objectives of joint working between the NHS and social services set out in the NHS plan is being hampered by the slow progress of service delivery and by recruitment problems, according to the chief inspector of social services.
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A very big cheese
Sir Donald Wilson, who died this month, inspired fear and respect in equal measure. Paul Smith charts the career of an ‘NHS hero’, renowned for his passion, his flamboyance - and his dairy farm Aspirations to a New Labour no-blame ‘modern and dependable’NHS were unlikely to appeal to Sir Donald ...