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No pay rise for many private sector staff
Thousands of private sector healthcare staff will get no pay rise this year, even though employers are finding it increasingly difficult to fill vacancies, according to a survey of more than 300 care and nursing homes.
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Message in a throttle
The Department of Health has not escaped New Labour's passion for news management. Patrick Butler reports on the department's high-profile spin doctor
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Monitor
Summer brings so many health risks that Monitor hardly dares get out of bed these days. What with public health and photo-opportunities minister Tessa Jowell's brave crusade against deadly cheeses, and chief medical officer Sir Kenneth Calman's wholly unexpected warning that 'consumers cooking burgers and similar minced meat products should ...
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In person
Patrick Boyle, director of facilities and procurement management with Haringey Healthcare trust in north London, has been appointed general manager of Westcare Business Services, a common services agency that provides corporate support to Western health and social services board in Londonderry.
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WEB WATCH
If your access to the wonderful world of communications technology comes from within the NHS, then you are most likely already aware of NHSweb. If not, http://nww.inform.nhsweb. nhs.uk will produce only an annoying insistence on the part of your web browser that the site has no DNS entry.
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700,000 bill for test scare
A Welsh hospital in a cervical cancer scare faces a potential damages bill of at least 700,000 from affected women and their families.
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Dobson launches new HAZs with 15m cash
A second wave of health action zones has been given the go-ahead by health secretary Frank Dobson.
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Unequal access is a problem at tertiary level, but couples can be helped by primary and secondary care
The cover feature 'The cost of living' highlighted the lack of equal access to assisted conception treatments.
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Unequal access is a problem at tertiary level, but couples can be helped by primary and secondary care
The cover feature 'The cost of living' highlighted the lack of equal access to assisted conception treatments.
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Pay-outs set to soar after interest judgement
Compensation for large medical negligence claims is set to soar by up to 30 per cent, following a landmark judgment by the House of Lords. The ruling followed appeals in three cases of catastrophic injuries, including a birth injury case.
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Pay-outs set to soar after interest judgement
Compensation for large medical negligence claims is set to soar by up to 30 per cent, following a landmark judgment by the House of Lords. The ruling followed appeals in three cases of catastrophic injuries, including a birth injury case.
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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?
The government has done well so far not to become ensnared in the trap over health service pay that engulfed the last Labour government in 1974. Back then, with NHS staff pay falling badly behind and public service workers' expectations of a new Labour government running high, ministers swiftly acceded ...
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Nurse recruitment hits an all-time low
Managers' leaders have expressed alarm about two sets of figures showing that the NHS is facing a nursing recruitment crisis.
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Coping with international coverage: the Mandy Allwood story
Nick Samuels had been corporate communications manager at King's College Healthcare trust for just a month when the Mandy Allwood octuplets story broke in 1996
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Chief's big pay-off sparks union anger
Unions have reacted angrily to a 100,000 pay-off for chief executive John Daley, who left Dudley Priority Health trust earlier this year after a controversial tendering exercise collapsed.
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Milburn announces move to clean up merit awards system for top doctors
Campaigners want to see a revamped merit award system for senior doctors which would place greater emphasis on discretionary awards at local level.