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Damning with faint praise
Nurses may have grudgingly voted to accept the pay award, but the government has its work cut out if the profession is to get 'on-message'. Pat Healy caught the mood at the RCN congress
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WEB WATCH MARK CRAIL
Down in the Everglades, the lawyers are not so much reptiles as hungry alligators - and they are snapping hard at the heels of any doctor who makes a mistake. If the medical establishment in this country is worried by the rising cost of negligence claims, it should look west, ...
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Hot under the collar over lukewarm response to royal commission
Nurses showed that they were furious with the government for its lukewarm response to the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care.
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'Deliver clinical governance - or leave'
Chief executives will be 'expected to leave the NHS' if they fail to deliver the government's clinical governance programme, health secretary Frank Dobson warned this week.
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Fraud busters
Fraud busters: Pippa Farrington (right), chief pharmacist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, looks at a new leaflet issued as part of a government crackdown on prescription fraud with colleague Caroline Fletcher.
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Boosted NHS role in jails 'will be costly'
Proposals to increase NHS responsibility for prison healthcare could have 'high-cost implications' for the health service, prison reformers have warned.
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Once bitten...
The Food Standards Agency's HQ was announced on the first anniversary of the BSE inquiry. But will it win public confidence? Mark Crail reports
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Health Bill fails on patients' rights
'A new statutory duty for quality' was promised in A First Class Service, but the Health Bill going through Parliament seems to sidestep this issue feebly, concentrating on process without enforcing the purpose. Section 13(1) of the draft bill says: 'It is the duty of each primary care trust, and ...
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Group set to tackle big seven
Baroness Hayman was speaking on the eve of the first meeting of the external reference group that will draw up a national service framework for older people, focusing on NHS services.
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Medical school bids flooding in
The government has received a flood of bids from universities eager to win a share of the 1,000 extra medical students promised by 2005.
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Still in poor health in Bevan's constituency
Would it be possible for you to request the health secretary to explain precisely what he means by the term 'primary care'? The World Health Organisation defined 'primary healthcare', but the meaning of 'primary care' is uncertain - to me, at least.