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In Brief: Correction
Several references to 'CHI' in Marion Witton's letter (page 21, 4 May), responding to our feature 'Shadowlands', should have been to the National Care Standards Commission. We apologise for the error, which occurred during editing.
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In Brief: Correction
Last week's feature on orthopaedic surgeons ('Blade runners', pages 20-23) referred to a British Orthopaedic Association study of 250 consultants' operating patterns. The study was in fact by John Yates and colleagues at the health services management centre, Birmingham University.
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Deacon blues
The Scottish health minister insists that managers committed to improving patient care have nothing to fear from the 'strings attached' to additional NHS money from government. Colin Wright explains
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Short Cuts: Cockroaches force hospital to close beds
A cockroach infestation has forced a hospital to close 20 beds for five days. St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight has booked 12 beds for elective surgery at a nearby private hospital because of the infestation. Closure of a medical ward will allow pest controllers access to 'below ...
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Beds under the Reds
Labour has crossed the ideological divide to embrace joint working with the private sector as a way to free NHS beds. Kaye McIntosh reports
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Grin and bear it
Health secretary Alan Milburn at St Thomas' Hospital in London for one of the eight simultaneous launches of the government's consultation with staff and patients on modernising the NHS.
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In Brief: Beacon status
Beacon status is to be extended to a range of services, including accident and emergency departments, this year, health secretary Alan Milburn has announced.
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In Brief: Call for baby walkers to be banned
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists has called for baby walkers to be banned at its annual conference, arguing they can restrict babies' development and lead to 4,000 injuries every year.
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Left holding the babies
Cathryn Leadstone, a pupil at Ormesby comprehensive school in Middlesbrough, with a pile of interactive dolls bought with funds from Teesside health action zone.
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Delays in HIV funding attacked
The government has come under fire over delays dogging both this year's funding and the national strategy for HIV and AIDS, promised three years ago.
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Mirror in mole appeal
Privacy and open justice clashed in the whistleblower case (above), and open justice won.
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In Brief: The Employment Appeal Tribunal
Employment tribunals can be dangerous places. The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee alleging race discrimination could launch a new claim of victimisation based on evidence the employers gave at the tribunal hearing the race claim.
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In Brief: Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill
Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill ran out of time for debate and will not now become law. The bill would have prevented doctors withholding nutrition and hydration in cases where patients are not dying - like that of the Hillsborough disaster victim Tony Bland, who spent years ...
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A credit to us all
Recruiting clinical support workers eased the pressure on a trust's hardpressed junior doctors and solved its staffing problems, writes David Wright and colleagues
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Poll victory for A&E campaigners
Campaigners fighting to stop Kidderminster Hospital losing its accident and emergency department have scored a dramatic victory in the Wyre Forest district council elections, held on 4 May.
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Short Cuts: Cardiff and Vale trust launches £3.7m public appeal
A £3.7m public appeal has been launched to build the first phase of a children's hospital for Wales on a site at University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.David Durham, chair of Cardiff and Vale trust, which is providing £1.3m, plus the site and infrastructure for the revenue-neutral scheme, said: 'As ...
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14-year wait for award
The High Court approved a £1m settlement last month for Matthew Pearson, 15 this month, who was left with cerebral palsy after his mother, a nurse, underwent an emergency Caesarean section at his delivery.