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Visiting the doctor is not like going to the pub
I've just seen a tearful elderly client who went to see their doctor seeking a referral.
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A distressingly high number of people with mental health problems are struck off by GPs
Despite Steve Ainsworth's statistic of 'only one person per GP per year', there is a distressingly high incidence of people with mental health problems being removed from GPs' lists.
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An opportunity to sit down and discuss pay for today
But if staff- side organisations can't agree, what hope of a national deal?
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Codes of conduct
Will the public accounts committee's damning report on the Read codes project wreck the NHS's forthcoming information technology strategy, asks Peter Mitchell
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'No confidence' vote over two ward closures
Staff at Llandough Hospital in South Wales have passed a unanimous vote of no confidence in its managers after a decision to close two wards.
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Fathers' children are not part of the eligibility criteria for infertility treatment
I was surprised to read in your cover feature 'The cost of living' (pages 22-25, 23 July) that Shetland health board operates an eligibility criterion for assisted conception which states 'no living children fathered by current partner'.
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Fathers' children are not part of the eligibility criteria for infertility treatment
I was surprised to read in your cover feature 'The cost of living' (pages 22-25, 23 July) that Shetland health board operates an eligibility criterion for assisted conception which states 'no living children fathered by current partner'.
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Pledged change to mental health law held up until general election
Plans to overhaul the 1983 Mental Health Act may not be realised until after the next general election, key mental health groups say.
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Cash for HIV prevention 'misses gay men'
Money allocated for HIV prevention work among the groups most at risk is being diverted to other uses, according to two surveys from the National Aids Trust.
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Cancer care on camera
George Cathro is making a television series on cancer care at the Western General Hospitals trust in Edinburgh. The project was partly inspired by personal experience - both his parents died of cancer.
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Calls to put managers on to staff pay system
Health service unions and managers' groups this week joined forces to call for the inclusion of senior managers in a new pay determination system covering all NHS staff.
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Wait and 'C'
Should an ambulance with paramedics attend every 999 call? Patrick Butler reports from the Ambulance Service Association's conference
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In brief
Pressure for higher medical negligence awards - at least in no- win no-fee cases - could come in the Modernisation of Justice Bill expected in the autumn. The government favours making unsuccessful defendants pay the insurance premium and the lawyers' 'success fee' - the increase on normal fees in no-win ...
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In brief
Pressure for higher medical negligence awards - at least in no- win no-fee cases - could come in the Modernisation of Justice Bill expected in the autumn. The government favours making unsuccessful defendants pay the insurance premium and the lawyers' 'success fee' - the increase on normal fees in no-win ...
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Reply-paid letters gave our service users a choice and us a break
In 1996, our child and adolescent mental health team had become overwhelmed by the growing number of cases on our waiting list.
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Nurses in court for back wages
A union has launched High Court action on behalf of nurses to recoup more than 1m in back pay. Unison claims that 63 nurses were denied a right of appeal on their regrading when they were employed 10 years ago by the former North Derbyshire district health authority.
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Work assaults dog health staff
Healthcare staff are four times more likely to suffer violent assault than workers in general, a study has found.
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Mental health law changes likely in capacity-to-consent grey area
Changes to mental health law and practice are likely to follow the judgment of the House of Lords in L v Bournewood Community and Mental Health trust, in which the law lords approved the practice of informally admitting apparently compliant patients who lack the capacity to consent.