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Date line: a guide to key legislation and guidance
1948 National Assistance Act section 21 sets out local authorities' duty to provide residential care for people in need.
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
No fashionable organisation is complete these days without a website to call its own. So it is with the positively Blairite New Health Network, which, though not yet in cyberspace, certainly has something trundling towards the launch pad.
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Costs of the triage scheme
TAS nurse triage software: installation, training and full support and upgrades £9,400
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'Threat' to services in contractual switch
Acute and teaching hospitals face losing millions of pounds, putting services 'in danger', because of the switch to service agreements and out-of-area treatments, trust finance managers warned this week.
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Ex-NHS finance director faces CIPFA investigation
A former NHS finance director faces an investigation by his professional body over allegations that he took £50,000 from a London medical school.
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Looking forward: possible future roles for CHCs
To scrutinise the commissioning and provision of health and personal social services in the interests of the public.
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A stand on ceremony
I was surprised that your article on royal visits ('Why roll out the red carpet...' cover feature, 8 April) made no reference to a guide to hospital visits called Ceremonial Occasions, produced by North West Thames regional health authority and widely used by trusts. Your own publication included a feature ...
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Two-week waiting target depends on numbers thought to have cancer, not just those who do
We recently surveyed GP referrals to secondary care with a differential diagnosis of cancer. We grossed up the number of referrals to annual levels for the whole of Buckinghamshire and compared them to actual annual cancer registration.
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Hidden cameras to detect staff crime
A trust is set to agree a code of practice on using hidden cameras to detect staff crime, which could be adopted across the NHS.
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Dead and buried: Milburn's PFI review
A key Department of Health review of the private finance initiative is now unlikely ever to see the light of day, according to HSJ sources.
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BMA slams police privatisation plan
Plans by a second police force to privatise police surgeon services have come under fire from the British Medical Association after claims that standards have slipped since the first contract was let.