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The long-awaited protection for whistleblowers in the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 is set to come into force in spring or early summer, giving staff who raise concerns about malpractice at work protection from victimisation or dismissal. Anyone victimised for making a protected disclosure will be able to bring a ...
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Bowing is optional: the Princess Royal goes to Devon
It took six years for the Princess Royal to reschedule her visit to Exeter and District Community Health Services trust - her 1993 visit had to be cancelled because of bad weather.
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Short cuts King's Fund quality body goes independent
The Health Quality Service, set up last year as an autonomous part of the King's Fund, is to become an independent charitable body. HQS, formerly known as Organisational Audit, works with both the NHS and the private sector to improve the quality of care.
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Deprivation blackspot
Norbiton ward is the most deprived ward in the area of Kingston and Richmond HA, with a Jarman deprivation score of 29 - nearly double that of the next worst ward and nearly seven times the average for the area.
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Pathways and judgement: why not a bit of both?
Professor Jeremy Dale makes a number of interesting points about computer systems for telephone triage and advice (news, page 3, IT Update, 18 March), particularly his assertion that 'all the professions - especially the Royal College of Nursing - favour the guidelines approach', while 'ambulance services have so far tended ...
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Borough bidding to work its care plan into HImP
A London borough is planning to ditch its community care plan in order to incorporate it into the local health improvement plan in a bid to extend joint working between health and local authorities.
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Read between the lines
The NHS's Read codes clinical vocabulary is to be gradually merged into the US-developed SNOMED vocabulary.
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One's first trip to a Belfast hospital
Before the first ceasefire in Northern Ireland it was impossible to organise a royal visit to any of the hospitals there because the security risk was so great. The Duchess of Kent, patron of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, would instead host receptions for hospital staff at Hillsborough Castle.
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'I hate the bastards'
Strong feelings among Labour MPs will not be the only obstacle to regulating the private healthcare sector, writes Lynn Eaton
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NHS managers are ahead of the game
Professor David Hunter is right to highlight the scale of the management task in delivering NHS modernisation (news, page 3, 11 March).
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The age of consent
The NHS will soon have to ask patients before sharing their medical records, this year's Healthcare Computing conference heard. Peter Mitchell reports
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HA backed in appeal against compensation
The NHS Litigation Authority is backing an appeal by East Kent health authority against a High Court judgement which, it claims, jeopardises the whole national cervical screening programme.
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Short cuts Guy's watchers predict 'disastrous' A&E closure
A campaign is starting this week to monitor the effects of closing the accident and emergency department at Guy's Hospital, south London. Guy's Watch claims that the closure, in September, will prove 'disastrous'. A spokesperson for Guy's and St Thomas's trust said that Southwark health authority had already invested in ...
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Telemedicine and telephones Reference group offers links and practical advice based on experience
As the two founding members of the Institute of Health Services Management's telemedicine and telecare programme, we were pleased to see your wide-ranging comments on telemedicine ('Telly addicts?' IT Update, 18 March).