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A fund farewell
PRIMARY CARE TRUSTS As PCTs come into operation this week, HAs, acute and community trusts will be waving goodbye - to a proportion of their funds. Alison Moore examines the implications
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Inadmissible evidence
Refusing to admit a patient to intensive care is guaranteed to generate media hype about bed provision.But little research has been done on optimum ICU bed numbers. Klim McPherson and Alison Metcalfe report
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Otherwise engaged
In the light of the Fritchie report, the health secretary has proposed changes to the appointments system that will fundamentally alter the relationship between HAs and trusts. Paul Stephenson reports
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Hospital grievance tally drops
Complaints about hospitals have fallen for only the second time since the new NHS complaints system was introduced four years ago.
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PCTs' mental health role doubted by MPs
Primary care trusts lack the 'depth of expertise'needed to take responsibility for mental health services, according to Commons health select committee members.
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'The devastation will be unbelievable'
General paint operator John Smith (not his real name), 49, has worked at Longbridge for the past 27 years.He has been on sick leave since December 1999 suffering from depression, is on regular medication and is being counselled by his GP.Two weeks ago, before BMW's decision was revealed, he felt ...
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Delay for ruling over hip devices
A ruling from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence on which hipreplacement devices the NHS should use has been delayed by a manufacturer's advance appeal.
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Executive decisions
Scottish senior managers are to have their salaries fixed by the Scottish Executive in a bid to 'introduce fairness and equity with other NHS staff members', according to a spokesperson for health minister Susan Deacon.
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Days like this
Demands to evaluate reforms. . .Call for managers' pay body. . .Warning over HAs. . .'No growth' predicted. . .Cautionary note on taxation
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NHS spared worst in limit on damages
A Court of Appeal decision to limit a rise in damages for pain and suffering in personal injury cases has been welcomed by NHS experts, who had feared the cost of medical negligence would rise by tens of millions of pounds more than now looks likely.
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Cost a packet
Theories on the causes of rocketing generic drug costs are numerous, but are there as many solutions, asks Jeremy Davies
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'More power for toothless select committees'
Commons select committees - including the health committee - should be given more powers to investigate, monitor and influence government policy, according to an MPs' report.
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Scandal-trust chief 'unlikely' to return to city
The suspended chief executive of North Lakeland Healthcare trust, which last week was the subject of a damning external review report into the abuse of mentally ill patients, has admitted it is unlikely he will return to work in Carlisle.
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On the case
FRAUD If fraud in large organisations is 5 per cent of revenue, that's £2bn a year for the NHS in England alone. But is the counter-fraud directorate really going to deliver on the detection and recovery of funds? Patrick Butler reports
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We've seen the carrot, but what shape is the stick?
comment Cheap jibes at 'bureaucrats' won't win the improvements everyone seeks