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In Brief: Borders General Hospital trust
Borders General Hospital trust has become the first Scottish trust to sell its staff accommodation to a housing association. It has struck a £2m deal with Eildon housing association that will allow it to nominate tenants to 39 of the 52 residential units involved for 30 years.
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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: 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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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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In Brief: Win Griffiths
Welsh health minister Win Griffiths has announced that £10.6m will be spent on research and development in Wales in 1998-99. A further £670,000 will be spent on providing six units to give advice, training and specialist support to researchers.
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In Brief: Manifesto commitment
The government has fulfilled its manifesto commitment to transfer responsibility for nurseries, child minders and other forms of day care for children under eight from the Department of Health to the Department for Education and Employment.
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In Brief: Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare trust
Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare trust has transferred its residential accommodation to Kensington housing trust under a 99-year lease.
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X-ray case tests time-limits rules
A health authority has been rapped on the knuckles by the Court of Appeal for destroying patients' x-rays after three years, in disregard of litigation time limits. West Lancashire HA landed an out-of-time negligence action which it might have avoided had it kept the xrays.
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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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Good skills don't come cheap
Southampton University Hospitals trust this week offered a new pay deal to qualified healthcare assistants which would raise some salaries to £11,600 a year.
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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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Mixed welcome for radical Welsh trust cuts proposals
Radical proposals to halve the number of trusts in Wales have been given a mixed reception by campaign groups.
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Trust slams HA 'high-risk disruption' and unveils own rescue plan on Net
A trust which is using the Internet to fight for survival is pinning its hopes on a 'radical' new plan to preserve acute services at three hospitals.
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Easter treat
Biker Dean Ashton hands over some of the hundreds of Easter eggs donated to the patients of Hull Royal Infirmary's paediatric ward after fundraising by a local bikers' club.
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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. ...