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BMA to appeal over disciplinary procedure ruling
The High Court has upheld the right of trusts to decide which disciplinary procedures to use when doctors are accused of misconduct.
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Continuity announcements
Scottish trust chairs have their work cut out carrying forward health improvement programmes amid major reorganisation. Laura Donnelly reports
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Psychiatrists spark anger
A five-year campaign by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness got off to a rocky start this week when aggrieved service users planned a protest march on the day of the launch.
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In brief: Legal Aid Board
The Legal Aid Board is inviting law firms to apply for franchises to handle medical negligence work from January 1999. From summer 1999, only those firms with franchises will be allowed to do such work on legal aid . The change is likely to mean that most large medical negligence ...
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Merger to go ahead after split over trust finance rules
A proposed trust merger, halted this summer after HSJ revealed that the Department of Health was split over legal rules, is to go ahead.
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Action on CJD doubles cost of blood to trusts
Trusts could see the cost of blood more than double next year as a result of the 'mad cow disease' crisis.
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In brief: Standing Conference on Drug Abuse
The Standing Conference on Drug Abuse has welcomed pilot schemes in Liverpool, Croydon and Gloucester allowing courts to send drug using offenders for treatment as an alternative to prison. The government has found £1m for the scheme, and earmarked £40m for national implementation if the pilots are successful.
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8 October 1948
Reasons why the ambulance and fire services should not be merged have been published by the Institute of Certified Ambulance Personnel.
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Extra £1.4m safeguards South Wales cardiac ops
The government has found an additional £1.4m to support adult cardiac surgery in south Wales. The money is to safeguard operations at University Hospital of Wales and is in addition to money already announced for a new cardiac centre at Morriston Hospital. A review of cardiac services in 1993 concluded ...
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Shortcuts
Welsh secretary Ron Davies has issued a consultation paper asking for views on priorities for public spending in Wales. It acknowledges NHS Wales' 24bn budget - a third of the Welsh Office total - is 'under substantial pressure' but points out that 'any additions to one (area of spending) will ...
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Social science
The economics of social spending 2nd edition Edited by Howard Glennerster and John Hills Oxford University Press 363 pages 40
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Qualified support
The NHS human resources strategy was broadly welcomed at the HR managers' conference last week. But funding, coercion from the centre and consistency of standards were some of the concerns. Barbara Millar and Mark Crail report
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Phoney wars
When GPs were told they could no longer claim payment for giving telephone advice, they were up in arms. But Steve Ainsworth says they should never have been claiming in the first place
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Monitor
Does Monitor detect a split in the Tory front bench health team? Why, only last week, Alan Duncan turned down a much-coveted opportunity to contribute to HSJ's On the Record column on the grounds that such things were 'too trivial'. And then, before you know it, up pops Ann Widdecombe ...
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LIZ in a tizz
Set up to close the primary care service gap between London and the rest of the country, the LIZ programme has achieved little beyond improved premises. And, say Richard Lewis and Susan Williams, the capital's underperformance still needs urgent attention
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Take it up with the kipper
It's easy to make jokes about managerial incompetence - and note how most management jokes are derogatory.1 'Mushroom management' became an NHS cliche in the 1980s, with managers claiming they were kept in the dark. Now there are seagulls and kippers. The former fly in, dump all over the workers ...
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Joys of the single life
Nearly half the general practices in London consist of one doctor. Jeremy Davies spoke to a selection about their reasons for going solo.