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in brief: Employment Appeal Tribunal
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has taken the rare step of branding as 'perverse' a finding by an employment tribunal that a dismissal was fair. A perverse decision has been defined in cases as one which is 'irrational', 'fundamentally wrong', or which 'offends reason' or 'flies in the fact of properly ...
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Where angels fear to tread
Labour leaders singled out doctors' conservatism at last week's party conference. But while Frank Dobson skirted around the issue, Tony Blair went for the jugular. Patrick Butler was there
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in brief: Andrew Hobart
Andrew Hobart, chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, has warned that 'the threat of industrial action will not be removed' until an agreement over pay and hours has been agreed with the government. In a letter to all juniors, he described a Department of Health claim that ...
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in brief: International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative is to receive a £14m grant from the government, international development secretary Clare Short announced last week.
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Age of the long goodbye
There is one certainty in life: as life is a terminal sexually transmitted disease, we will all die.
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A feather in his cap as His Dobship turns again
Despite persistent conference rumours in Bournemouth, I was completely wrong-footed by Frank Dobson's change of heart over the London mayor's job. I was not alone. The night before it emerged in the Sunday Telegraph , Jack Straw said on Radio 4's Any Questions that Nick Raynsford, the minister who had ...
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No additional funding for flu jabs for NHS staff
The NHS Executive has decided that immunising NHS staff against influenza 'should be regarded as an acceptable part of planning the coming winter' because of the 'exceptional' millennium period. But no additional money will be made available. New guidance says 'employers deciding to offer vaccine will do so on the ...
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Act compels NHS to provide buildings access for all
The latest stage of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 came into force on Friday, requiring service providers to take 'reasonable steps' to ensure that they can be used by disabled people .
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WEB WATCH
'For many years all that could be seen of the new British Library was the building site through a hole in the boards thoughtfully created by the builders, knowing how fascinating most of us find the creation of a large building,' writes the development team for the new National Electronic ...
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Opportunity knocks
'For the first time, a government is standing up to be counted - setting specific standards against which we'll be judged, tackling poverty and its causes,' social security secretary Alistair Darling declared last week.