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    Trust clinches PFI deal for medical equipment

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    Fight club

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    Compensation win for 'grossly dishonoured' nurse

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    SHA configuration 'too diffuse to be effective'

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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'

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    Contract talks gather momentum

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    Contract talks gather momentum

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    Days like this

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Tory pledge endorsed- Jowell predicts 'trolley'election - IT cash row- Consultants unhappy- GPs'ad -Tomlinson to head hospitals inquiry NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol's public endorsement of the Conservative Party's key message on the eve of its annual conference - that the NHS will not be privatised - has divided managers.

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    Days like this

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Tory pledge endorsed- Jowell predicts 'trolley'election - IT cash row- Consultants unhappy- GPs'ad -Tomlinson to head hospitals inquiry NHS chief executive Duncan Nichol's public endorsement of the Conservative Party's key message on the eve of its annual conference - that the NHS will not be privatised - has divided managers.

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    DoH pursues Microsoft option

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Enovation

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    DoH pursues Microsoft option

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Enovation

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    Events

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Annual conference 24 October, Birmingham The Primary Care Learning Association is holding its annual conference with a range of speakers discussing how to address some difficult but commonly presented issues in education, training and development. Topics include primary care trusts and their role in learning, developing a training strategy, stress ...

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    Events

    2001-10-11T00:00:00Z

    Annual conference 24 October, Birmingham The Primary Care Learning Association is holding its annual conference with a range of speakers discussing how to address some difficult but commonly presented issues in education, training and development. Topics include primary care trusts and their role in learning, developing a training strategy, stress ...