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    Private sector may tender in major shake-up of prisons'GP services

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    A major shake-up in the way GP services are provided in Scottish prisons is being planned - with private healthcare organisations in the frame as a potential provider.

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    'Sick' Marathon man is suspended by trust

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    A nursing director who ran in the London Marathon while on extended sick-leave has been suspended by his trust.

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    Many reasons why patients are not referred

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    monitor

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Everybody else is doing it, so why can't Monitor? In the interactive 'stylee' favoured by our leaders, consultation is the name of the game, and the game is consultation. This week, your chance to say exactly what you think of Monitor and shape the future of this column. This is ...

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    Throwing neddies overboard

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    YORKSHIRE TERRIER

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    Using the research that is under our noses

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

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    in person

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Janardan Sofat has been appointed as the new chair of Medway trust. He is a councillor and school governor and until recently was a nonexecutive director ofWest Kent health authority.Mr Sofat succeeds Tony Clayton, who has become dean of Greenwich University's Dartford and Medway faculty.

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    Sitting pretty

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    GPs are subjected to violence, rudeness and anti-social behaviour almost every week.Yet few practices have a policy on removing patients. Sally Young and Relton Cummings report

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    ROM with a view

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    Reconfiguring health services A practical guide for managers Principal author Shirley Ann O'Hara Emap Public Sector Management 128 pages (plus CD-ROM) £85

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    Room on top

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    A construction worker watches as Northallerton Healthcare trust expands its ward accommodation at Friarage Hospital. A modu lar construction method is be ing used to reduce build ing time from 12 months to 26 weeks.

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    WEB WATCH

    2000-05-18T00:00:00Z

    What a bunch of clever clogs they are down at the Department of Health.NHSnet fell over, companies worldwide had to close down their computer systems, and even the US National Security Agency suffered a security breach.But apparently the DoH had no problems at all with the 'love bug'.

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    14-year wait for award

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    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.

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    Short Cuts: Cardiff and Vale trust launches £3.7m public appeal

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    Compulsory prescribing adds to bureaucracy

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Letters

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    Poll victory for A&E campaigners

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    A credit to us all

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    In Brief: Ann Winterton's Medical Treatment (Prevention of Euthanasia) Bill

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    Mirror in mole appeal

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Privacy and open justice clashed in the whistleblower case (above), and open justice won.

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    In Brief: The Employment Appeal Tribunal

    2000-05-11T00:00:00Z

    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.