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'Resign if private practice is curbed'
Dr Woodruff Walker, consultant radiologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, believes doctors should threaten to resign from the NHS - potentially bringing down the government - if ministers attempt to curb their private practice. He would prefer consultants to be paid on a 'fee-for-service' basis, as in an insurance-based ...
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County set straight
The table included in 'Bitter pill' shows that Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire ambulance services are proposing to merge with Lincolnshire. This is incorrect. They are proposing to merge with Leicestershire Ambulance and Paramedic Service.
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Drug firms will have to reveal full cost of new treatments to NICE
Drug companies will be expected to produce evidence of 'the total cost to the NHS' of adopting new treatments under a proposed appraisal process for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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The Dobbo Day of reckoning for consultants
Informed sources - not including any current or unemployed government spin doctors - advise me that the medical profession is considering abolition of consultant merit awards. The move would end this gratuitous waste of NHS resources, and replace it with a revolutionary system which fits well with the education sector's ...
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Confederation's subs go up to prevent 'ruin'
The NHS Confederation is planning a big hike in membership rates at the end of a year in which its chief executive admits it faced 'potential financial ruin'.
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Warning on 'hidden needs' of carers
The government has been warned that its national strategy for carers could 'reveal hidden care needs' in community services.
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Bristol GMC notes stay secret
Dr John Roylance, the trust chief executive struck off for serious professional misconduct in the Bristol paediatric heart surgery case, has failed in an unprecedented attempt to obtain access to shorthand notes of confidential deliberations by the General Medical Council.
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in brief
Employment lawyers are advising bosses they should consider sacking problem employees sooner rather than later in the light of the government's Fairness at Work Bill. The bill, which was presented to Parliament last month, will make radical reforms to employment law, including lifting the ceiling on compensation for unfair dismissal ...
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'Supra-PCG' structures must be planned to work from the bottom up
As an organisational concept, the 'supra-PCG' makes a lot of sense. But care must be taken to ensure that the development of such models is managed from the 'bottom-up' as well as the 'top-down' perspective.
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Patel chairs Scots standards board
Obstetrician Sir Naren Patel has been appointed chair of the Clinical Standards Board for Scotland, the Scottish equivalent of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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Board vacancies delay North West decisions
Delays in appointing chairs and non-executive directors in North West region are delaying key decisions and putting a heavy burden on 'half- strength boards', according to senior managers.
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CJD doubles cost of blood
The cost of blood will double as a result of the 'mad cow disease' crisis, the NHS Executive has confirmed.
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No individual to blame in poll shenanigans...
The investigation into the Ladywood primary care group election (news, page 4, 21 January) was not about an individual but was concerned with the movements of a ballot box over a period of 72 hours, and as such 15 individuals were interviewed by Birmingham health authority secretary Richard Miles.
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HA's bid to force water fluoridation founders
Newcastle and North Tyneside health authority has lost a High Court bid to force Northumbrian Water to fluoridate the water of millions of customers.
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Does the gentleman in Whitehall really know best?
The NHS regional offices are increasingly arms of central government
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UKCC faces axe in nursing regulation shake-up
The government is to shake up nurses' regulation after an independent review found existing regulatory bodies 'do not do enough to protect the safety of patients'.
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Astronomical problems as services face hordes
Acute services in Devon and Cornwall are drawing up drastic contingency measures to cope with a mass influx of visitors for the solar eclipse in six months' time.
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Damning Unison analysis of PFI hospital is 'wrong', claims trust
A scathing analysis of the case for a leading private finance initiative project has concluded that it will deliver poorer service and cost more than a publicly funded scheme.