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Too hot to handle?
WARD MANAGERS: People who manage wards feel their accountability is being increased while their control of resources is being diminished. Claire Laurent reports
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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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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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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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A very big cheese
Sir Donald Wilson, who died this month, inspired fear and respect in equal measure. Paul Smith charts the career of an ‘NHS hero’, renowned for his passion, his flamboyance - and his dairy farm Aspirations to a New Labour no-blame ‘modern and dependable’NHS were unlikely to appeal to Sir Donald ...
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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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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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Retrial for hernia hearing as case costs pile up
The Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that a surgeon was negligent and has ordered a retrial because the judge gave no reasons for her finding.
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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.