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In Brief: Ivan Macky
Ivan Macky, a former doctor at Grantham Hospital, Lincolnshire, was jailed for three years last week after being convicted last month of three charges of indecently assaulting patients in the hospital's casualty department.
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In Brief: King's Fund
A three-year scheme to evaluate new ways of working in primary care was launched this week by the King's Fund and the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre. It will look at developments in nine Primary Care Act pilot sites in England and Wales.
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In Brief: Bowel cancer
An extra £10m is to be made available to treat people with bowel cancer, health secretary Frank Dobson said this week.
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Why Bickerstaffe is still no Buddy of New Labour
I don't know where you were when the Easter pay debate erupted. But St Ives in Cornwall was as good a vantage point as any. Pay is notoriously low and seasonal in the West Country, though indices of poverty (and thus of NHS grants) are distorted by high levels of ...
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Waiting for the party to begin
The New NHS white paper emphasises the need to improve clinical governance. The government's plans for a National Institute for Clinical Excellence and a Commission for Health Improvement are to be elaborated soon.
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Baby deaths surgeon stands by 'switch' operation
The Bristol baby deaths inquiry last week heard a surgeon dismiss as 'hypothesis' claims that babies' lives could have been saved if he had learned better operating techniques earlier.
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Nurses jeer as Dobson says sorry for staged pay award
Health secretary Frank Dobson this week apologised for staging the nurses' pay award, but faced boos and jeers from angry delegates at the Royal College of Nursing congress.
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Hospitals Authority
Providing a modern ambulance service was a priority for the new Hospitals Authority, which took charge of the fleet of 64 ambulances in Northern Ireland in 1949. You can read all about it in a book on the history of the health services in the province, Curing & Caring by ...
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Values-added attack
Managers have to make moral choices, the NHS's high-flying trainees were told at their conference. Mark Crail reports
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In Brief: British Medical Association
The British Medical Association has welcomed a highly critical report on Britain's two immigration detention centres by the chief inspector of prisons, Sir David Ramsbotham. It identified gaps in basic healthcare and recommended an audit of healthcare needs.
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In Brief: Healthcare Financial Management Association
An extraordinary general meeting of the Healthcare Financial Management Association has agreed rule changes that will allow it to recruit a broader membership.
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Health secretary is asked to stop closures
Health secretary Frank Dobson has been urged to stop the closure of continuing care beds at a London hospital because the community health council says the consultation process was 'inadequate'.
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Professional approaches
Designating cancer units requires time, tact and training. Liz Scott and colleagues describe one system
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The appliance of compliance
Fine words are being written into the new quality framework, but managers want to know what sanctions there will be to back them. Pat Healy reports
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All for a guinea a week
Only the sickest patients could hope for a real egg when hospitals had to feed patients on 21 shillings a week. Bernadette Friend recalls rationing and racketeering in the early NHS