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Longstanding BMA secretary to be Scottish chief medical officer
The new chief medical officer for Scotland will be Dr Mac Armstrong, secretary of the British Medical Association since 1993.
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A little bit of horse sense
War wounds were compared and farmyard analogies coined at a joint health and local government conference on inspections. Alex Klaushofer listened in
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Called to the bench
By the end of the year all mental health trusts must be part of a benchmarking group. Twenty-six inner city trusts came together to work towards this goal.Peter Clarke and Tom McCarthy report
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Prostate cancer research programme to begin
Health secretary Alan Milburn has increased funding for prostate cancer research as part of a new NHS prostate cancer programme. The Department of Health will be directly funding £1.2m of research this year, rising to £4.2m by 2003-04.
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Bastards let us down: NHS Direct bidder
The main rivals for the software contract to complete the roll-out of NHS Direct have reacted bitterly to news that French insurance company Axa Assistance has won the £68m-a-year deal.
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Picking up the pieces - BAMM case studies
Case 1.'I think you've got a problem here' A medical director and BAMM member got a call from a trust chief executive who had concerns about a clinician's performance.He drove 300 miles on a Sunday, and spent hours that evening ploughing through case notes.
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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 ...