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Employers win back leeway in sackings
In a ruling delivered to little publicity the day before judges and lawyers departed on their annual jaunt to Tuscany, the Appeal Court reversed the effect of a series of court decisions which made it harder for employers to justify a sacking as fair.
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Up, up and away
Docbusters wanted. Must be extremely skilled, enjoy travelling extensively at short notice and capable of inspiring the confidence of beleaguered trusts.
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Milburn's promise of help to assess bed needs welcomed
NHS managers have welcomed health secretary Alan Milburn's promise to provide them with a 'model' to help calculate the numbers of beds needed in the NHS, despite warnings that the initiative is unnecessary and centralist.
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A label of 'dual diagnosis' is being given to people with mental health problems who misuse alcohol and drugs. But will this improve their care, asks Claire Laurent
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In brief: Legal aid
Plans to reform the financial eligibility tests for legal aid could mean more people abandoning cases for fear of losing their homes, say lawyers. The most radical change would require people with more than £3,000 equity in their homes to contribute from the equity to the cost of their cases. ...
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Adverse drug reactions monitoring to be updated
The Medicines Control Agency is introducing an updated 'yellow card' scheme for reporting suspected adverse drug reactions, designed to protect patient confidentiality. The new scheme will no longer require personal details such as a patient's name and date of birth, but will just ask for information such as a patient's ...
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Anti-smoking research shows TV ads make sense
Health Development Agency research suggests that health promotion on television is an effective way to combat smoking.
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Going for growth, but does it all add up?
Extra beds are welcome, but forthcoming guidance must tie up loose ends
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£630m set aside for winter care
The winter emergency services team is planning 40 visits to 'key health and social care communities' as part of plans aimed at averting the annual NHS 'winter crisis', junior health minister Gisela Stuart announced last week.
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Raising the stakes
Community consultation and stakeholder involvement in planning are key elements of the new management agenda for health authorities. PricewaterhouseCoopers carried out research with 25 HAs during January 2000 to gather comparative information on strategies and approaches to community consultation. Questionnaires were sent to the chief executives of 100 HAs in ...
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Planning for the unexpected
Did you take a book with you to read on holiday? For £15 you could have bought a hardback copy of the current best-selling thriller or a couple of good paperbacks to read on the plane.If you're a real masochist like me you might have recklessly blown your hardearned cash ...
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Target pressure for PMS pilots
Draft core contracts for future personal medical services pilots will require GPs to sign up to the NHS plan's targets for access to a primary care professional within 24 hours and to a GP within 48 hours by 2004.
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What the staff and patients think
Willie Reid (left), medical director, says the task has now changed from trying to convince clinicians that the PFI project would come to fruition, to trying to persuade them that the 30-year deal will work. The hospital is 'light years ahead of what we had before', he says. He is ...
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Take your partners
All over the country trusts are forming 30-year relationships with PFI partners - but the average marriage doesn't last this long. How can you be sure which consortium is: a) Right for you? b) Means what it says? c) Will stay faithful? Use John Kelly's ha
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Sounding the right note
The history of rock and roll is strewn with casualties: Jimi Hendrix choking on his own vomit, Elvis enjoying his last supper, the gunshots that ended the short lives of Kurt Cobain and John Lennon.
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Nervous tick
Health managers perceive CHI to be about punishment and censure, despite its protestations to the contrary. Mark Gould reports on a revealing HSJ survey