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Take a deep breath and try again
Parliamentary time is needed to put the tobacco ad ban beyond doubt
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Costs set to rise as 'success fee' gets go ahead
From early next year a change in the law will allow winning claimants to recover from their opponents not just legal costs - as now - but also any insurance premium paid and the 'success fee' payable to their lawyers for taking on a no-win no-fee case.
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Fox announces review groups for key topics
Shadow health secretary Dr Liam Fox is to set up four policy review groups for mental health, long-term care, primary care and medical ethics.
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Arts surgery
A new national council aims to promote the use of music, dance, drama and painting in the health service. Laura Donnelly tunes in
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Former mentally ill patient stranded at Ashworth by lack of care plan
Russell Hall was 23 when he killed his girlfriend nine years ago. Found guilty of manslaughter by reason of insanity, he is detained at Ashworth Hospital without limit of time under the Mental Health Act.
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Junior doctor drafted in to help Assembly cut hours
A junior doctor has been seconded to the Welsh Assembly for nine months to 'help identify how doctors' working hours can be reduced and working conditions improved'. Dr Catrin Elis Williams, 25, was a senior house officer in general medicine at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.
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In brief: Immigration and Asylum Bill
The government's Immigration and Asylum Bill risks damaging refugees' health, the King's Fund has warned. It has called on ministers to withdraw the bill 'in its current form', claiming it would cause 'unnecessary suffering to people awaiting a decision' on their application for refugee status.
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Welsh bed numbers drop by a third in two decades
The number of hospital beds in Wales has dropped by a third in less than 20 years, but roughly twice as many patients are receiving hospital treatment. A summary of statistics from Wales published last week shows that the number of beds fell by 8,000 to 15,000 between 1980 and ...
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As winter begins to bite so will a newly sceptical media
Managers should beware as Milburn passes on the pressure to deliver
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Langlands blames market for unknown cost of IT strategy
NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has blamed the internal market for being unable to say how much was spent on the NHS's first information management and technology strategy or exactly what it achieved.
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BMA seeks regulation for complementary medicine
The British Medical Association has called for complementary and alternative medicine to be regulated to end the 'current unacceptable situation' in which 'virtually anyone is free to practise, irrespective of training or experience'. In evidence to a Lords sub-committee, the BMA says a single regulating body should be established for ...
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Booking pilots present 'challenges'
The introduction of airline-style booked admission systems to the NHS presented a series of 'unforeseen challenges and obstacles' that required 'ingenuity and creativity to overcome', according to an independent survey.
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in brief: compensation ceiling
The ceiling for compensation for unfair dismissal went up on 25 October from £12,000 to £50,000. Average awards at the moment are well under the £12,000 ceiling, so the change will affect mainly cases involving senior, higher-paid employees.
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In brief: General and senior managers
General and senior managers will not get a national pay rise this year, according to guidance issued by head of NHS pay Aileen Simpkins. Maxima and break-points for pay ranges for health authority managers will increase by 3 per cent. Increases for individuals within these ranges may be determined locally.
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In brief: firework injuries
Just 42 firework injuries were treated at Welsh hospitals last year, a fall of 7 per cent on the previous year, according to statistics released by the Welsh Assembly 's health , statistics and analysis unit. Rocket injuries increased from nine to 13, but the number of injuries caused by ...
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To sum up, Hutton's not a calculating character
Dining in intimidating company the other evening, I found myself seated next to a distinguished medical academic. A man of lifelong Labour persuasion, he was nonetheless fiercely sceptical of the evidence-based approach to NHS drugs policy as represented by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.