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Human rights cases gather momentum
A patient at Broadmoor special hospital who was forcibly given medication has won permission to go to the Court of Appeal, in one of the first human rights cases to reach court on 2 October, the day the Human Rights Act came into force.
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Call to highlight screening's limits
Screening programmes should be re-named 'risk-reduction programmes' to help educate people about their limits, according to the UK national screening committee.
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Clean break
Regulating the health profession requires tact. But the new Council has to go to the heart of the matter, says Celia Davies
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Conference with extra bite
Health secretary Alan Milburn believes the NHS must be the best, as well as the biggest, employer in the land. 'Don't wait for advice: start now' was the message to the Institute of Healthcare Management. Lyn Whitfield and Tash Shifrin report
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'Politics bias'attacked
The commissioner for public appointments has called for greater openness about the political affiliation of public appointees in the NHS.
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Wrong side of beds
The key to taking the heat off mental health inpatient care may not be as simple as simply increasing bed numbers. Robert Lee and Derek Bradley report on their findings
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Beam me up, Bournemouth
Astride a Star Trek set, William Hague delighted the Conservative conference, though on health he may get a rougher ride from voters than he did from delegates, reports Lyn Whitfield
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No chance of avoiding crisis
Only by valuing staff can the NHS retain loyalty through a difficult winter
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Milburn announces new deal for staff
Health secretary Alan Milburn has launched the human resources framework that will make the way NHS employers treat staff a core performance measure for the first time.
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Private healthcare comes to the aid of the politicians
The Conservative Party is pressing ahead with its plans for a major expansion of private healthcare, promised at its party conference last week.
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Council declares no confidence in bitter saga over A&E closure
A district council has called for the resignation of senior NHS managers and intervention by a government hit squad after the closure of Kidderminster General Hospital's accident and emergency unit.
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NHS advocacy services face cash problems
A report on advocacy services in the NHS in London says they are suffering from 'precarious short-term funding', a lack of pay and little formal training.
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Tobacco advertising ban is still a priority
Brussels health lobbyists are calling for stronger measures to protect public health in the wake of the European Court of Justice's decision to cancel the tobacco advertising ban covering all 15 EU members.
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Courts may not be so robust as claims under new act pour in
However much ministers may try to downplay the effects of the Human Rights Act, it's clear that the courts are going to face a barrage of claims.
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Talk about the speeches
If there is one theme to emerge from the Institute of Healthcare Management's annual conference, it is the sense of disappointment that the new organisation has not achieved the profile or the influence that it might have done.
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Study finds 'no evidence'of action on 1992 review
An inquiry into heart surgery at the cardiac unit at Liverpool's Alder Hey children's hospital has found no evidence that an action plan had been put in place after an earlier investigation.
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£6. 3m deficit-trust's board 'was warned'of cash crisis
A leaked report into England's highest trust deficit has concluded that danger signals pointing to the trust's impending financial crisis were 'not hidden'from its management board.