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Latest drug trials case claims professor's scalp
The General Medical Council has struck off a former research director for serious professional misconduct in the latest in a raft of cases involving allegations of misbehaviour in clinical drug trials.
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Case dropped due to ill-health
A Scottish chief executive suspended from his post over a year ago after allegations of overpayments to senior managers has been allowed to retire and will not now be the subject of a public inquiry.
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A bug's life
Forget year 2000 compliance. What you should be worrying about is year 2000 computer viruses - both real and hoax. Michael Cross reports
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in brief: Jack Straw
Home secretary Jack Straw has announced the start of a £23.5m support service for prisoners with drug problems. The multiagency Counselling, Assessment, Referal, Advice and Throughcare will aim to identify drug users, support them in prison and coordinate support after their release. It will be available to all prisoners by ...
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in brief: primary care groups
A key responsibility of primary care groups in London will be to improve the quality of primary care itself, according to a new book from the King's Fund. It also argues that the issue of redistributing resources 'must be faced squarely if the new NHS is to make a real ...
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in brief: Doncaster Healthcare trust
Doncaster Healthcare trust and Scunthorpe Community Health Care trust were given ministerial approval to merge on 1 October.
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in brief: Brighton Health Care trust
Brighton Health Care trust will offer surgical patients the chance of having their own blood reinfused, following donation of a Cellsaver machine by Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Waiver pays for cancer boost
A VAT waiver lay behind health secretary Frank Dobson's announcement of a further boost to cancer services at the Labour Party conference.
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Shouldering the blame
An unnecessarily painful end to the life of her elderly mother left Mary Rosenberg with a sense of injustice
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Relenza provides baptism of fire for fledgling institute
But NICE must reassure patients that it acts in their interests, too
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Countdown begins for HSJ award nominees
Eighteen entries in this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have reached the shortlist. Health secretary Frank Dobson will announce the winners and present the prizes on 11 November.
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Third HA plan follows Assembly pressure
Cash-strapped Dyfed Powys health authority has issued its third set of proposals for dealing with its situation in three years.
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Transfer arrangements inadequate, report finds
A report into the continuing transfer of learning disability patients from Lennox Castle Hospital in Glasgow has criticised the 'planning and delivery of services to children and adolescents'. Lennox Castle, run by Greater Glasgow Primary Care trust, is due to close by March 2002, with its 323 patients discharged into ...
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More apple pie?
Conference 'overwhelmingly' passed Labour's new health policy, which had been pieced together from two years of consultation managed by the party's health policy forum.
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Bristol inquiry hears cardiac unit was 'rumbling appendix'
Bristol Royal Infirmary's cardiac unit was like a 'rumbling appendix' in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to the former head of South Western regional health authority.
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CHC appeals to health secretary over cuts
North Staffordshire community health council is to refer plans to reconfigure local services to health secretary Frank Dobson, despite a health authority undertaking to submit a revised proposal for consultation next month. CHC members took the step in protest at North Staffordshire HA's proposal to cut elderly continuing care beds ...