All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-05-10
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Negligence claims soar to 10 per cent of NHS budget
Negligence claims against the NHS have soared to £3.9bn - around 10 per cent of its annual budget.Claims actually settled during the last financial year were worth £386m which, according to the National Audit Office, represents a seven-fold increase since 1998. Its report also says that legal costs outstrip the ...
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Scots plan for £300m cash boost
Health services across Scotland are to share almost £300m this year to spend on capital projects.
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Labour 'People have the wrong end of the stick about NHS managers'
Among Labour's hopefuls is Reg Race, a management consultant in the health service who has worked in 102 trusts and health authorities.
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'Sidelined'chief exec to launch legal action
The most financially troubled health trust in Scotland is facing legal action from a former manager who claims he was effectively made redundant when he was passed over for the chief executive's job.
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Liberal Democrats better public service investment' 'We are the only consistent advocates for
Richard Renaut, service manager for general surgery, urology and paediatric surgery at Addenbrooke's Hospital, is fighting North East Cambridgeshire for the Lib Dems.
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Socialist Alliance 'Labour is no longer following Bevan's agenda'
East End GP Dr Kambiz Boomla is standing against health secretary Alan Milburn's parliamentary private secretary, Jim Fitzpatrick, in Poplar and Canning Town, where the Labour majority is 18,915.
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Conservative 'I am particularly keen on matrons coming back'
Consultant clinical psychologist Rasjid Skinner is the Conservative Party's man in Pendle, Lancashire, a traditionally safe seat for Labour, which has a majority of more than 10,000.
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Snoozing through yet another wake-up call
Repeated warnings on locums ignored in NHS's own inimitable fashion
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Appetites whetted as Blair goes to the polls
Mung beans, couscous and very cheesy sauce were ingredients in one of the last initiatives rustled up by the government before prime minister Tony Blair went to the polls for a 7 June election.
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Clinical team defends ex-Radcliffe appointee
The clinical governance support team has defended its appointment of a nursing director who was strongly criticised for poor support, guidance and supervision of staff while at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust.
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Leicester faces continued media deluge in wake of cancer audit
Public health services in Leicestershire are facing another week in the spotlight following publication of the findings of an audit of deaths from cervical cancer.
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Axing tax breaks for private medical insurance saves Treasury millions
The government's decision when it came into power to axe tax breaks for elderly people taking up private medical insurance could have saved the Treasury up to £135m, according to a new report.
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'Balanced and useful' indicators
Is this an admission that their predecessors were unbalanced and useless?