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The Legal Aid Board has agreed, with immediate effect, that it can and will pay for mediation if a case backed by legal aid can be resolved that way. It had initially argued that, by law, its funding covered only traditional dispute resolution - by negotiation or litigation. Mediation could ...
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Knowing who's boss
Is hierarchy the natural order for organisations or can a looser structure be just as effective? Andrew Wall examines the options
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Short cuts Coventry HA boosts health promotion pharmacists
Coventry health authority has launched a public awareness campaign on the health promotion role of community pharmacists. It will encourage the public to seek advice from pharmacists on a wide range of issues, including medicines, minor ailments, healthy eating, sexual health, physical activity and giving up smoking. The HA points ...
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Short cuts Food safety report recommends better surveillance
Improved surveillance and reporting of food-borne viral infection, and good hygiene practice, are recommended in a report from the Department of Health and Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food.
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Crackdown on NHS sickness bill begins
NHS human resources managers are to have new guidance on tackling absenteeism in line with chancellor Gordon Brown's bid to cut £6bn from the public sector staff sickness bill.
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Short cuts Patients bring in duvets as hospital bedding runs out
Stand clear: heart surgeon Francis Wells at work, pictured in one of a series of photographs taken during a single week. The pictures form one of three exhibitions linking art and medicine on show at Buckingham- shire Art Gallery until 6 December. Paintings depicting stages of breast cancer and work ...
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Straw's soundbites on psychiatry don't distinguish the 'mad' from the 'bad'
Home secretary Jack Straw's pronouncements on the psychiatric profession should not be allowed to pass without significant public comment and debate.
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Short cuts Five million people suffer back pain
Five million people suffer back pain in the UK, costing the NHS £193m a year to treat, members of theEuropean Parliament heard at a launch by the European Federation of Pain Societies last week. The Federation has drawn up guidelines for effective pain management and wants more statistics on chronic ...
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Short cuts Coventry health authority
Coventry health authority has launched a public awareness campaign on the health promotion role of community pharmacists. The campaign will encourage people to seek advice from pharmacists on a wide range of issues including medicines, minor ailments, healthy eating, sexual healthy, physical activity and giving up smoking. The HA points ...
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Wales' waste of wisdom Election rules mean assembly forgoes much NHS expertise
Devolution offers the people of Wales an unrivalled opportunity to reshape their health service. But if the standard of debate among politicians at the NHS Confederation in Wales' annual conference last week is a foretaste of what can be expected once the Welsh assembly is up and running, there is ...
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Pluralist approach to the promotion race
Evaluating health promotion Edited by Scott and Weston Stanley Thornes 168 pages £18
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Anticipating the assembly
How will the national assembly influence healthcare in Wales? The NHS Confederation in Wales' annual conference wanted answers to some basic questions, writes Lyn Whitfield
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Short cuts The Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance
The Long-term Medical Conditions Alliance has been awarded nearly £170,000 by the national lottery to support development work with member organisations, one third of whom rely on volunteers and trustees to keep running. The grant is for three years.
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Short cuts Professor Allen Hutchinson
Professor Allen Hutchinson, director of public health at Sheffield University's school of health, is to chair the government's working group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which was announced in July. It will produce advice on clinical management of the illness. There will also be a sub- group on children.
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Agencies should not pay for the working time directive
Your news story 'Agencies cash in on working time limit' (page 2, 22 October) misleads by using the wrong terminology. The split is not between full-time and part-time workers but between workers who are NHS employees and those who are agency employees.
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SNP: great intenders will produce policy, but after consultation
In her report on the Scottish National Party's People's assembly on health (News Focus, page 16, 15 October), headed 'SNP: still no policies', Barbara Millar lists SNP plans to establish an all-party Scottish healthcare commission including outsiders with expertise among its ranks, a democratic input into health boards and local ...
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WHO study vindicates smokers - so can we be accommodated now?
The findings of the World Health Organisation's research into the alleged risk to non-smokers of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, confirm what a wide range of reputable individuals and organisations have long maintained: that it in no way constitutes the ...
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Fatal accident inquiries ordered
The Lord Advocate has ordered fatal accident inquiries into the deaths of two teenagers who were treated at Glasgow Victoria Infirmary.