All Health Service Journal articles in 2001-08-16 – Page 2
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TUC chief may opt out of private health scheme
General secretary of the Trades Union Congress John Monks is going to 'look into and possibly review' his membership of a health scheme guaranteeing treatment outside the NHS, according to a union spokesman.
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Ordinary skill is enough for courts
The Bolam test for medical negligence, laid down in a case heard in 1957, is still alive and well.
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Short cuts
Body proposed to regulate healthcare professionals Modernising Regulation in the Health Professions.DoH. www. doh. gov. uk/modernisingregulation The government has proposed a body to regulate all healthcare professionals, by overseeing the work of the existing regulatory bodies.The work of the Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals has been outlined ...
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Days like this
Performance reviews. . .Inner city immunisation. . .Health authority mergers. . .Doubts over 'centre of excellence' Trade union NALGO is calling for changes to individual performance reviews and performancerelated pay, which it claims have fallen into 'disrepute'. In its submission for a 12.5 per cent pay rise for up to ...
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Design for life
Healthy living centres may be a throwback to the 1960s, but Carol Harris believes they are filling a gap between medical need and community spirit Achiropody clinic for homeless people in London, an exercise programme in the Lake District and a drug education project in Belfast sound like typical community ...
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NurturingTom, Dick and Harry
Afew weeks ago I met an inspiring Australian nurse, probably in his early fifties.
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MS victim wins HA funds to die at home
A health authority has agreed to fund home care for a terminally ill man who didn't want to die in hospital.
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Drowning, not waving
Health academics Kieran Walshe and Judith Smith are not convinced by the government's call for yet another deluge of NHS reform.They wonder what, if anything, it will achieve Ministers and civil servants in the Department of Health probably look back nostalgically to Labour's first term in government in 1997 and ...
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Going places
How can emergency admissions be safeguarded at times of major hospital reorganisation?
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On a hiding to nothing?
Hammersmith Hospitals trust is preaching an open culture.So why hasn't it released the results of its breast-screening audit, asks Paul Stephenson Concerns about the choice of Hammersmith Hospitals trust medical director Professor Rory Shaw to chair the National Patient Safety Agency have once again thrown the trust into the spotlight.
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Unfavourable reference ruled negligent
Job references for former employees who leave under a cloud need to be handled with care, as a recent case shows.
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Secretaries set to reject unionapproved offer
Medical secretaries in Scotland are set to reject a national framework offer on their re-grading dispute despite acceptance being recommended by their own union.
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Tale of the unexpected
What happens when a tiny cottage hospital learns it is to benefit from a massive legacy? Danny Lee went to Cromer, Norfolk, to find out
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