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In Brief: James Taylor
James Taylor, the consultant paediatric cardiologist at Great Ormond Street children's hospital who was found guilty of serious misconduct by the General Medical Council, had carried out a balloon catheterisation on a six-year-old girl without her parents' consent. Dr Taylor said he thought it was in the patient's best interests.
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In Brief: Patients Association
The public wants legislation to make living wills binding on doctors, according to a MORI poll for the Patients Association. Two out of three of the 1,960 adults surveyed favoured the move.
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In Brief: Public Law Project
The Public Law Project, a charity which helps bring legal challenges to decisions of public bodies, runs an NHS advice line staffed by solicitors for NHS users 'who have problems with NHS bureaucracy'.
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The wait goes on
Latest figures suggest the continuous fall in long waits for hospital admission cannot be sustained. John Appleby reports
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Supertrust signs up £125k chief executive
A £430m new 'supertrust' this week recruited what is thought to be the country's highest-paid chief executive. David Johnson, once a hospital porter, will head Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust. The post carries 'a remuneration package' of around £125,000.
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Ambulance review: future uncertain
Two ambulance trusts have emerged intact, but the future of five others remains undecided under a proposed shake-up of emergency services in the north of England.
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Unison delights in contracts battle 'victory'
Unison this week claimed victory in its battle against trust contracts when Chase Farm Hospitals trust confirmed that new staff would no longer be offered them.
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Colleagues betrayed me, says Bristol doctor
A surgeon told the General Medical Council this week that disloyal doctors spread allegations of the 'awful' death rate of his infant patients throughout England and Scotland without telling him.
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In Brief: Clinical academics
Clinical academics are to receive a staged pay award of 4.2 per cent this year, after the University Colleges Employers Association agreed to translate the recommendations of the doctors and dentists review body into staff salaries. Nonclinical academics will receive a staged award of 3.8 per cent.
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In Brief: Peter West
The NHS could benefit from using some tools of managed care developed in the US, a report by Peter West, senior lecturer in health economics at the United Medical and Dental School of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, has concluded. In his Office of Health Economics report, Dr West says ...
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In Brief: Zito Trust
The Zito Trust has claimed that 40 per cent of homicides in England and Wales are committed by people with a mental disorder and that noncompliance with drugs is a factor in 60 per cent of these cases. The trust says patients need more follow-up in the community and better ...
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In Brief: Unison
Unison has struck a deal with its opposite number in Finland to represent Finnish nurses and other health professionals working in UK hospitals. The deal is between the union and TEHY, a 111,000-strong union which represents virtually all health staff in Finland.
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In Brief: UNISONdirect
Unison has also unveiled UNISONdirect, a project to put members in rapid touch with stewards and provide them with quick-reaction facilities. As part of the project, stewards will be given hand-held computers holding information databases that can be connected to a phone or printer.
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White paper reconfiguration could leave Scotland with just 27 trusts
Detailed proposals to make a radical reduction in the number of Scottish trusts have been issued by health boards.
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Jowell drawn into row over HIV/AIDS centre
Public health minister Tessa Jowell is fighting Treasury resistance to a financial rescue plan drawn up for a leading HIV/AIDS centre.
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Light fantastic
Professor Marc Clement, dean of applied design and engineering at Swansea Institute of Higher Education, demonstrates a new laser treatment to restore the elasticity of burned skin. The treatment, developed in collaboration with Ruth Waters, a plastic surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, warms collagen fibres, freeing scar tissue. ...
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Psychiatry unit relocation plan a 'retrograde step'
A London health authority has been accused of planning to 'rebuild an asylum' by proposing to move a psychiatry unit from an acute to a community hospital.
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Service options go out to public consultation
A health authority accused last year of trying to undermine a trust has put proposals for relocating its services out to public consultation.
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Dyfed Powys aims to wipe out £20m deficit
A Welsh health authority has launched a recovery plan to tackle a £20m deficit in funding for the local health service.