All News articles – Page 2292
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The Lord Chancellor's Department is expected to launch a code of practice today aimed at cutting the time and cost involved in clinical negligence cases. The pre-action protocol has been drawn up by Clinical Disputes Forum, which represents lawyers, doctors and victims of medical accidents.
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Sceptical MPs damp down cash boost euphoria
The government's triumphant multi-billion pound boost for the NHS was left tarnished this week by MPs' allegations that it put a 'misleading' gloss on the real pounds8.8bn increase over three years by double and triple counting.
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Spending review bonanza set to 'transform' scope of PFI projects
Millions of pounds of public capital poured into the NHS as a result of last week's comprehensive spending review announcement will 'transform' the scope of private finance initiative projects, MPs have been told.
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Scottish boards' trust shake-ups challenge white paper pattern
Health boards serving Scotland's two biggest cities are to press ahead with trust reconfiguration plans which run counter to the model set out in the government's Designed to Care white paper.
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Bliss was it in that dawn as Santa Brown dealt the dosh
So difficult to get the tone right on these occasions, isn't it?' the Queen once remarked as her then prime minister explained away a sterling crisis to sceptical voters on TV. Watching MPs struggling with their response to Frank Dobson after he had done his Big Spender's lap of honour ...
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Gordon Brown's billions fall into perspective
Realism returns after initial excitement over the chancellor's pounds21bn
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NHS Confederation and IHSM should look at their own democratic legitimacy before criticising CHCs
I read with interest your story about the report on the future of community health councils (News, page 7, 2 July). It was indeed refreshing to be lectured on openness and accountability by the NHS Confederation and the Institute of Health Services Management.
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National Audit Office report shows trusts miss their financial targets
Four trusts missed all three financial targets last year, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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CHCs have a vital role in the future, but need to be revitalised - and appropriate funding made available
Your news article had a very strongly and rather negatively worded headline. It certainly caught the eye, but I do think that to use the word 'damning' was unnecessary.
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Donaldson appointed chief medical officer
Northern and Yorkshire regional director Professor Liam Donaldson is to take over as chief medical officer for England on a top-ranking civil service salary worth up to pounds164,000 a year.
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Costs warning as rise of superbug threatens to defeat antibiotics
Hospital infections caused by MRSA 'superbugs' have leapt by 50 per cent in just one year, unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service figures show.
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Angry GPs' leaders divide along fundholding faultline in debate over future direction of PCGs
GP leaders from across the old fundholding divide have clashed over the future direction of primary care groups.
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Support those people with mental illness plus drug or alcohol problems
There is an apparent belief that more emphasis on and investment in crisis response services, assertive outreach teams and 24-hour staffed accommodation will reduce the number of homicides committed by people with a serious mental illness. There is some merit in this belief, and the injection of new resources will ...
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Evidence-based research and practice must be focused on achieving effective outcomes for patients
There is a connection between evidence-based practice, local clinicians' research work and the NHS research and development strategy but they are not all the same thing, nor are they consistently implemented across the country. It is too easy to put them all under one banner (Slow-acting remedy, page 24-25, 21 ...
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Accountants bid for new body
NHS finance managers could find themselves subject to a new professional accountancy body if proposals put forward by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants get the go-ahead.
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Blair said little about a healthier society
Your report of my comments on Tony Blair's speech at the NHS 50th anniversary conference (page 10, 9 July) was not correct.
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Two issues for 2000
Medical device companies are not collectively refusing to sign the NHS Supplies Year 2000 deed (News, page 7, 2 July). The Association of British Health-Care Industries has advised its members that an alternative declaration should be submitted.
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Lighthouse will stay at home in pounds2m rescue package deal
The London Lighthouse HIV and AIDS charity appears to have won its battle to stay in its purpose built premises - but its residential services are still set to close.
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on the record
MIKE FOGDEN is chair of the National Blood Authority. He was previously chief executive of the employment service. He began his civil service career in 1958 at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, which became the Department of Health and Social Security, after national service in the RAF.