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Short cuts: Alliance against assault follows smacking research
An alliance has been launched under the name Children are Unbeatable! to lobby for children to be given the same legal protection against assault as adults. Around 200 organisations, including a number of medical royal colleges, are involved. The Department of Health last week received research from Save the Children ...
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Short cuts: PFI-funded hospital to go ahead on greenfield site
Swindon and Marlborough trust has been given planning permission for a replacement for Princess Margaret Hospital after deputy prime minister John Prescott decided not to call the plans in for a public inquiry. The private finance initiative-funded hospital will be built on a greenfield site on the edge of Swindon, ...
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Size does matter in ambulance performance
In your article about performance indicators (news, page 2, 10 December) it would have been helpful if you had pointed out that the London Ambulance Service received more complaints than other ambulance services because it is considerably larger than any other service in the country.
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Angry MPs call for end to 'blurred roles' between health and social services
Weed all about it:
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Sex-change judgement appeal
North West Lancashire health authority is seeking leave to appeal against a judgement quashing its decision not to fund gender reassignment surgery costing £7,000-£9,000 for three male-to-female transsexuals.
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Ashworth: the findings
The allegations made by former patient Stephen Daggett were 'largely accurate'.
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Assessment centre's restricted role
Consultation has begun on proposals to create a Scottish Health Technology Assessment Centre to evaluate new treatments and advise on their use.
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Investment in training and team-building would pack a punch in boosting public confidence in the NHS
'Silent majority' highlights some crucial issues. While many in the NHS would accept the theory that lay members have a role, uncertainty about how to involve them proactively leads to woolly thinking and the appearance of tokenism.
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Short cuts: Trusts told to set up 'robust' breast cancer systems
Trust chief executives have been told to put 'robust systems in place' to track urgent referrals from GPs involving suspected breast cancer. Trusts will also be expected to monitor referrals from February to 'test the new reporting instructions' and provide updates for health authorities on progress towards meeting the government's ...
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In brief
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped manslaughter charges against two doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children - a specialist registrar in paediatric anaesthetics and a registrar in haematology - over the death of a 12-year-old patient wrongly given an injection of vincristine into the spine rather than into ...
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Bringing in a common currency
Spending on salaries is much the same as spending on patient services
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Capital punishment
A snapshot survey of A&E departments highlights lengthy waits for admission in many London hospitals even before the holiday pressures began.
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Long-stay care ruling puts duty on NHS
Health authorities suffered bruising defeats in the High Court just before Christmas in two challenges by patients to decisions on the use of healthcare resources.
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Psychiatrists reject 'failure' of care policy
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has challenged popular public assumptions that care in the community has failed.
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Short cuts: First Scots integrated health and social care facility
The Scottish Office has given the go-ahead for an £11m integrated health and social care facility - the first of its kind in Scotland.
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Collecting charges: how the new unit will work
The task of collecting the charges will be given to the compensation recovery unit, which is part of the Benefits Agency. It will levy a flat- rate fee of £354 for patients treated in accident and emergency departments or outpatient clinics, and a daily rate of £435 for those admitted ...
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Galbraith denies union claims of a recruitment crisis in Scotland
Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith has issued a letter to Labour MPs denying claims by health unions that there is a recruitment crisis in Scotland.