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After the gold rush
The deal is sealed; the new hospital will be built with private money. Robert Naylor, now in the hotseat, tells Tash Shifrin what's next at UCLH
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Chief departs after confidential report
A confidential inquiry into allegations relating to waiting-list figures at South Warwickshire General Hospitals trust has led to the resignation of chief executive Andrew Riley, despite the fact that problems found were 'not serious' and no disciplinary action was planned.
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'Absolutely slamming': Holloway verdict
A draft report by Medacs Forensic Services into healthcare provision for prisoners at Holloway was 'absolutely slamming'in its criticisms of attitudes towards sick women prisoners, according to Finola Farrant of the Prison Reform Trust. The document - seen by HSJ - was based on visits to the prison last August. ...
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Conservatives and Lib Dems fail in attempt to thwart abolition of CHCs
The government's plan to abolish community health councils came under renewed fire from MPs this week.
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Union clinches £35. 6m payouts for injured members
Unison has won £35. 6m in compensation payouts for members injured at work in 2000, with substantial sums going to healthcare staff. The figures include £100,000 awarded to former Cardiff Royal Infirmary staff nurse Diane Chambers, who was forced to give up her job after developing severe eczema from using ...
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TB cases highest in 15 years, reveal PHLS figures
The number of tuberculosis cases is at its highest for more than 15 years, figures from the Public Health Laboratory Service show. Provisional data for 2000 show TB notifications in England and Wales have risen by 10. 6 per cent, to 6,797 over the past year, the highest since 1983. ...
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Programme of success
As with many of the other trusts that have installed bedside TV and phone units, Leicester Royal Infirmary reports some initial opposition to the charges. But Anne MacGregor, the trust's public relations manager, says it is now well-received and the trust and Patientline help patients who cannot afford the service.
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Pillow talk
The Patient Power initiative will make life easier for patients - though at a cost - with a bedside TV and phone and potentially the Internet. Seamus Ward reports
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From pillar to post
A troubled health authority told to radically rethink management and accountability issues is losing its chief. She will be a hard act to follow, says Alison Moore
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: Peter Homa Job: Director, Commission for Health Improvement Style: Gentle academic type, more like your hospital chaplain than snarling, biting Chris Woodhead, the abrasive former Ofsted chief, with whom he is most frequently compared and contrasted. Joined only by HSJ editor Peter Davies in maintaining a Dobbo-era beard, while ...
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Stainspotting: the patient's perspective
When someone describes a toilet as being like the one in the film Trainspotting you know It is bad - but it is especially shocking to find that the toilet is in a hospital.
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Outpatient waiting
Understanding how the outpatient system interacts with the rest of the NHS is important - but assessing waiting-list performance is far from straightforward, writes John Appleby
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Time to talk one-stop shop
What happens at an organisation's front line can affect the entire way people perceive it. The problems are multiplied when a range of agencies are required to present a 'joined-up' face to consumers.
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Monitor has spent a happy week perusing the very best of those magazines which try to educate people of a ladylike persuasion on matters of health and beauty. Of course, beauty comes from within, as Mrs Monitor constantly reminds, while poking fondly at Monitor's cuddly exterior. Nonetheless, in the current ...
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One-stop management
For many trusts, outsourcing procurement will be driven by the need to meet the government's 3 per cent efficiency target but Milton Keynes General trust had other pressing concerns when it recently awarded a contract to Drager Medical to manage its electro-medical equipment procurement.
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Tragic irony
Is the murder of eight-year-old Anna Climbie a tragic one-off or proof that an overhaul of the child protection system is needed? Thelma Agnew reports on how opinions have been polarised
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Organ retention - NI inquiry
An investigation into the removal and retention of dead children's organs in Northern Ireland has been ordered by health minister Bairbre de Brun, following the revelation that over 350 organs had been kept by Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.
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In fine voice
A new report is claiming success with its methodology of using mental health service users as interviewers as well as interviewees. Claire Laurent reports
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Fancy that
The latest initiative to improve hospital food caught the headlines with its 'celeb chefs', but can it succeed where others haven't, asks Lyn Whitfield