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GP wins redundancy claim after hospital closure
A GP who was employed by a trust to provide cover at a hospital elderly care ward has won an employment tribunal claim for redundancy payments after the sessions were ended due to the ward's closure. Dr John Campbell, who practises in Ashington, Northumberland, had been employed as a hospital ...
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Royal Free appeals against 'huts for nurses' ruling
The Royal Free Hospital trust has lodged an appeal against a ruling by Camden council that it cannot install temporary accommodation for overseas nurses in the grounds of the trust. Local residents in Hampstead, north London, objected to the hospital's plans to install prefabricated huts on disused tennis courts to ...
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Beleaguered boss quits ambulance trust
David Todhunter, chief executive of Mersey Regional Ambulance trust, has resigned from his post, weeks after being sharply criticised in a report into the handling of an emergency helicopter transfer of patient Julie Donaldson in May 1999.
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Polls apart
Heckling was banned at the RCN's annual congress, whatever the provocation. Tash Shifrin heard the politicians vie for the profession's votes
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Appeal to candidates for HIV/AIDS debate
The UK HIV Policy Forum, a UK umbrella group of 20 HIV organisations, has challenged the main political parties to address the growing urgency of the AIDS problem. In its manifesto, the organisation calls for guaranteed investment in HIV prevention and protection from discrimination for people with HIV/AIDS. Jonathan Grimshaw, ...
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Surely Somme mistake as battle-weary troops hold their ground
You could be viewing this election campaign (still a whole week to go) as a dreary, control freak's dream, every move orchestrated by Labour HQ at Millbank and its rivals. There again, you could see it as a pleasingly chaotic shambles in which things go wrong all the time and ...
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On the ethics border
NHS managers are about to acquire new responsibilities for policing medical research. How will they cope with yet another 'governance', wonders Toni Turner
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Tool shortages cause ENT wait-time breach
Patients around the country - many of them children - are having to wait more than the government's agreed time limit of 18 months for surgery, following difficulties buying disposable equipment for tonsillectomies.
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Risky business
Variations in referral rates present a challenge to primary care organisations. They could be reduced if some GPs changed their attitude to risk, say Gill Rowlands and Graham Lewis
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Early discharge from intensive care heightens risks
The deaths of 39 per cent of patients moved out of intensive care to other wards could be prevented if they remained in the unit for two more days, according to research conducted in 20 UK intensitve treatment units. Researchers from St George's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London, writing ...
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Lack of cash threatens mental health services
The delivery of improved mental health services in some of the poorest parts of London is being delayed because of lack of cash.
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Media chief quits over 'total' ministerial control
Department of Health communications director Helen McCallum has left her high-profile Whilehall job because of the 'frightening level of ministerial control' thwarting her ideals.
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Team-work undermined by fund plans, say finance chiefs
The announcement that the £105m modernisation fund for acute trusts is to be locally controlled by medical and nursing directors has been attacked by finance directors as another central directive undermining managerial team-working.