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No disciplinary action for consultant who provided 'inappropriate care'
Patients treated by a Scottish medical director suspended in July received 'inappropriate' and 'sub optimal care', an independent inquiry reported this week.
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Longer waits at three in four A&E departments compared to 1996
Waiting times have risen in nearly three-quarters of England's accident and emergency departments, according to a survey by the Audit Commission.
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'Record' £2.2bn capital deal has strings
The government has announced that it will be investing 'a record' £2.2bn in hospital buildings and equipment next year.
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Milburn puts up £226m for PCGs
Health minister Alan Milburn has given primary care groups a £226m cash boost.
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Settling in
The NHS is being urged both to improve access to healthcare for refugees and to integrate more refugee doctors into the service. Barbara Millar reports
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Professionals with a purpose
'Lengths of stay and waiting lists are ideal measurements, easy to count and to change; kindness and caring are virtually impossible to identify or to measure, so they have largely disappeared from the NHS lexicon'
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Theatre people
Cutting waiting lists depends on high levels of overtime by operating theatre staff, but this is no long-term solution to persistent shortages. Jonathan Edgar and colleagues report on a survey
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monitor
A health authority chief executive who probably wishes to remain nameless reveals the latest government thinking on a new system of patient- centred PCGs. 'The core of the new system will be the establishment of patient consultative groups,' according to a secret document he has helpfully sent to Monitor. Every ...
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The third man
John Hutton is the third member of a now influential political triumvirate. Patrick Butler reports on the new junior health minister's rise to power
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A life in the theatre: survey results
All but one of the trusts identified current nursing and operating department assistant staff vacancies in their theatres. The number of vacancies reported ranged from four to 26 - equivalent to 10 per cent overall.
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Lawyers at large
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99
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Hit or myth
It is a myth that managers motivate their staff. Surely, says Robert Keys, it's the other way round
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The government's response to Utting: main points
All children entering care to be offered a health assessment.
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Take it from the top: Janet Snell gathers a range of views from health managers
Philip Sands, director of corporate strategy, Calderdale and Kirklees health authority
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'No win no fee' stakes raised
The ink had hardly dried on judgments in three House of Lords cases which will increase damages awards by up to one-third in big negligence cases, when the Lord Chancellor decided on another reform which will mean higher legal costs for the NHS.
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Tailoring expected in guidance on working time for NHS managers
The NHS Executive is expected to recommend that all health service managers should be covered by the European working time directive, on which an advance letter is due next Thursday.
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Pro-family policy has 'enormous' implications for NHS with major extension of health visitors' role
The government's controversial Supporting Families green paper, launched last week, looks set to have major implications for the health service.