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Roylance appeal focuses on 'bias'
Former Bristol Royal Infirmary chief executive John Roylance has claimed that the General Medical Council's decision to strike him off for failing to stop a series of fatal heart operations on children was 'profoundly unsatisfactory'.
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Pay proposals spark 'disgust and dismay' among unions
Battle lines were drawn over the long-awaited proposals for a new pay system for the NHS as soon as health secretary Frank Dobson announced them in the Commons this week.
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Ambulance trusts behind in IT bug fight
Five of England's 36 ambulance trusts are making 'unsatisfactory' progress in mopping up year 2000 computer problems, according to reports from regional directors.
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A fatal outbreak of ambition
'Nurses or wardmaids are much the same as housemaids, and require little teaching other than making poultices,' wrote a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons, John Fleet South, soon after a particularly unpleasant encounter with the indomitable Florence Nightingale. While his views may not necessarily match those of ...
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Misconduct allegation against trust chief executive
The chief executive of a Scottish trust has been reported to the General Medical Council.
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GP deputising 'failures' added to holiday crisis
Two studies have been launched into claims that failures in GP deputising services added to pressure on accident and emergency services at Christmas.
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'Largest' network links acute sites
North Essex health authority has ordered the largest 'community of interest network' yet to be built in England.
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BMA accuses police on surgeon contract
West Midlands Police has come under fire for privatising its police surgeon service.
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OFT probes 'abuses' by private health firms
The Office of Fair Trading is investigating a series of allegations about uncompetitive behaviour in private medicine.
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Dr Peter Kennedy: 'It used to take seven years to do something about colleagues with nicknames like 'Terminator' and '007'''
Concept: 'The term is new, but the concept is not - it is about the collective responsibility of chief executives and clinicians. The new emphasis is on increasing the development of information on clinical outcomes and performance and handling that information in an open manner with the public.'
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Supra? Sounds super
How interesting that Birmingham is the first to discover the benefits of what used to be called family practitioner committees.
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Shark repellent
NHS credit unions can offer staff cheap loans and a way to bypass undesirable lenders, but their numbers are still low, writes Barbara Millar
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Rational thinking
Elderly people have always been marginalised in NHS planning. But it's time to question what rationing and prioritising mean for older people, says Dorothy White
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Over the threshold
Significant variations between hospitals in the severity of illness of patients admitted suggest it is time to draw up an ideal admissions system, say David Lawrence and colleagues
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Protests at low pay offer for managers
Senior managers are to be offered significantly lower pay rises than nurses, NHS chief executive Sir Alan Langlands has told trusts and health authorities.