All Legal articles – Page 108
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HSJ KnowledgeTake action to avoid coroners’ reports
Coroners produce rule 43 reports into deaths to prevent future fatalities. Providers must follow a number of steps to stay out of them, says Adam Hartrick
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NewsManager wins compensation after 'wrong colour' dismissal
North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has said it has “learned many lessons” after it was ordered to pay £115,000 to a nursing chief who was told she was from the “wrong colour and culture”.
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NewsBasildon prosecuted over disabled patient's death
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust is being prosecuted over the death of a severely disabled patient.
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CommentJenny Rogers on the pitfalls of assessing risk in the NHS
What we want in the NHS is intelligent risk assessment and people brave enough to allow compassion and common sense to prevail.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to eliminate bullying from the NHS
The pressure to drive performance can too easily turn a well intentioned manager into a bully, warns Jenny Rogers. NHS organisations must get rid of the blame culture
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HSJ Knowledge
Risk Management - conference sessions
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Risk Management conference
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NewsTrusts could face £500,000 fines for losing patient data
Organisations that lose sensitive data could be fined up to £500,000 under newly approved penalties.
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NewsUnited Lincolnshire in turmoil as disciplinary action starts
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust is in further turmoil after questions over the treatment of the incumbent chief executive and the resignation of a suspended non-executive director.
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NewsBullied hospital manager awarded £150,000 compensation
A bullied NHS manager who suffered a nervous breakdown is to receive £150,000 in compensation.
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NewsAndy Burnham backs sunbed ban for under 18s
The government has backed a call to ban under 18s from using sunbeds at tanning salons.
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NewsCost of hospital thefts revealed
Items worth more than £900,000 have been lost or stolen from Scotland’s hospitals in the last two years, it has been disclosed.
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HSJ KnowledgePrivate patient debt: it pays to check for eligibility
Private patient debt costs millions. Lucy Suddaby finds out how to recover cash from those ineligible for NHS care
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NewsFSA launches criminal probe into ex-iSoft bosses
The Financial Services Authority has started criminal proceedings against four former directors of iSoft, an IT firm involved in the NHS IT programme.
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NewsHospital staff strike over pay and conditions
More than 250 cleaners, porters and cooks have staged a 48-hour strike at an NHS trust in Devon over implementation of Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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HSJ Knowledge
Competion law and the health bill
The health sector needs to brace itself for a severe competitive shock, with the anticipated Health Services Bill expected to give Monitor the power to apply the Competition Act 1998 to the provision of health services and adult social care across England.
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NewsPriority NHS access charter for armed forces plan
Military personnel and veterans could get legally binding rights of priority access to public services such as healthcare under an Armed Forces Community Charter, defence secretary Bob Ainsworth has said.
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NewsTariff puts brake on acute admissions
Acute trusts will be paid only 30 per cent of the NHS tariff price for emergency activity above their 2008-09 levels, this week’s operating framework confirms.
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NewsJob cuts could see up to 5,700 staff go from PCT and SHA management
Up to 5,700 administrators and commissioners could be made redundant by primary care trusts and strategic health authorities next year, the Department of Health has indicated.
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HSJ KnowledgeUnderstand the staff vetting and barring system
The scheme for ensuring people have appropriate credentials for working with vulnerable people have been updated. Shirley Wright outlines the changes