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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.
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The icepick man cometh
New health minister John Denham is happy to be called a moderniser after a Bennite past. But will his appointment mean a leadership vacuum at a crucial stage of policy development, asks Patrick Butler.
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Short cuts: New test for surgeons' hand-eye co-ordination
A computer test aimed at assessing whether a surgeon has sufficient hand- to-eye co-ordination to profit from training in keyhole techniques has been developed by the psychology department of Hull University, with funding from East Yorkshire Hospitals trust. The test measures the speed and accuracy with which a subject can ...
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'There is a crisis. I'm not denying it'
Hospitals have buckled under the strain of this year’s winter pressures. Thelma Agnew and Laura Donnelly report HSJ’s findings, as health secretary Frank Dobson gives his verdict:
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Culture shock
Paddy Cooney seems particularly well qualified for his job as chief executive of the Avalon Somerset trust, due to become the integrated mental health provider Somerset Partnership on 1 April.
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Days like this
Anticipating Mrs Thatcher's NHS white paper... junior doctors' hours... nurses' grading appeals... suspended doctors...
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Rushed deadline for three-way merger
Hospital managers in Kent have been ordered to merge three acute trusts in less than four months.
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When stuck in a hole, the thing to do is stop digging
Labour's mental health policies may lead to inertia and short-termism