All Health Service Journal articles in 1998-08-13
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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.
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Court of Appeal ruling on Caesarean rights
The Court of Appeal has issued guidelines following a spate of cases in which women were forced to undergo Caesarean sections against their will. Most of the women were mentally competent and therefore legally entitled to say no to the treatment - a subtlety of medical law apparently not grasped ...
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Court of Appeal ruling on Caesarean rights
The Court of Appeal has issued guidelines following a spate of cases in which women were forced to undergo Caesarean sections against their will. Most of the women were mentally competent and therefore legally entitled to say no to the treatment - a subtlety of medical law apparently not grasped ...
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.