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THE PERSUADERS
Name: John Appleby Job: Health systems programme director, King's Fund Style: Everyone's fave economist - except Number 10's, perhaps. His 'precision'analysis showed up the flaws in Tony Blair's pledge - sorry, aspiration - to raise the share of GDP spent on health to EU levels, and was apparently seen as ...
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Winter pressures
Over the winter there was only one story to be written about the NHS - why is not there a winter crisis? The latest report from the winter and emergency services team (WEST) confirms part of the answer - no influenza.
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The Sheffield story
Four rehabilitation resource centres in Sheffield, one for each primary care group area, will eventually offer different aspects of rehabilitation to older people. Resource centre project manager Gill Greenwood says: 'We are developing different things at different times. 'Eventually each will offer a rehabilitation wing, a hospital discharge wing, a ...
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Socket to them
The NHS does an outstanding job making artificial eyes for patients who need them. But, as Laura Donnelly discovered, There is a lot more to the service than that
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Some things wicked
The NHS plan promised a change in the quality of leadership. Carole Doherty reflects on the practicalities of achieving that ambition
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Black manager wins £80,000 payout in discrimination case
A trust has been forced to pay nearly £80,000 to a black manager who won a race discrimination claim at an employment tribunal.
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NHS must pay £10m over defective blood
The NHS faces a £10m bill for compensation and costs after a ruling by a High Court judge that the National Blood Authority and Velindre trust in Cardiff were liable for supplying defective blood to 114 people who became infected with hepatitis C.
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X-ray copies to be included in £50 medical records fee
The ruling in the hepatitis C litigation comes hard on the heels of a less momentous judgement but one which will also prove expensive for the NHS.
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'Dirty' hospitals on defensive as DoH shines spotlight on 41
The Department of Health has named 41 'dirty' hospitals which will receive fortnightly monitoring visits from regional offices, and flagged up 10 as 'in need of special measures'.
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Human rights ruling challenges Mental Health Act on detention
Six months after the Human Rights Act came into force, its effects are starting to be felt in the healthcare field.
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WAKEFIELD'S HEALTH ACTION ZONE: BIG ON IMPACT, SMALL ON FUTURE FUNDING
The government's message to the NHS is that it is not just a question of resources, but using the resources in a different way. So you might expect schemes that have a big impact, using very little money, to get clear backing early on.
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Leading BMA member admits to being freemason
A former chair of the British Medical Association has admitted to being a member of the freemasons - though he refused to discuss it in 1996, when HSJ asked directly whether or not he was a member. Sir Sandy Macara has admitted he belongs to the 1404 St Vincent lodge. ...
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Suspicious fire closes A&E department
London's University College Hospital was forced to close its accident and emergency department after fire broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Health head goes as MSF merges with AEEU to create super-union
Health union MSF is to merge with the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union to form a super-union of more than a million members.
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HA failing in attempts to tackle workforce planning
NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp was forced to admit to MPs this week that health authorities'attempts to tackle workforce planning were 'not good enough'. Members of the Commons public accounts committee questioned Mr Crisp on educating and training the future non-medical clinical workforce. Of 99 HAs, 'only two actually fully ...
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London Tube chief set to return to NHS as troubled trust beckons
The managing director of the London Underground is poised to leave his high-profile role and take a pay cut to return to the NHS as chief executive of Hammersmith Hospitals trust, HSJ understands.