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The odd couple
The chair-chief executive relationship is at the apex of a health authority or trust. Effective joint working by the two is widely seen as a prerequisite for effective board working and more general organisational effectiveness. Conversely, tension or poor working relationships can be detrimental to the performance of the board, ...
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Bristol inquiry hears cardiac unit was 'rumbling appendix'
Bristol Royal Infirmary's cardiac unit was like a 'rumbling appendix' in the late 1980s and early 1990s, according to the former head of South Western regional health authority.
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Dobson shows his hand as mayor hopeful
Health secretary Frank Dobson finally bowed to pressure this week and allowed his parliamentary private secretary, Ann Keen, to confirm that he will seek the Labour nomination for mayor of London.
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Countdown begins for HSJ award nominees
Eighteen entries in this year's HSJ Health Management Awards have reached the shortlist. Health secretary Frank Dobson will announce the winners and present the prizes on 11 November.
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NICE put on defensive as ruling on Relenza ends in row over 'leaks'
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has defended its handling of the fast-track appraisal of Relenza, despite concern about the way news that the anti-flu drug had been turned down for NHS prescription this winter emerged.
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Delay over managers' pay rise is 'political'
Most senior managers are still waiting for a pay rise this year, according to the annual survey conducted by Pay and Workforce Research.
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Perfect combination
False assumptions about the cost of combination drug therapies for HIV are skewing funding decisions. Mike Youle and colleagues argue that a new approach to analysing cost effectiveness is needed
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Planning permission
A practice taking part in a personal medical services pilot has launched care plans for patients with chronic diseases and streamlined dealings with its health board. Dawn Whiteside reports
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Shouldering the blame
An unnecessarily painful end to the life of her elderly mother left Mary Rosenberg with a sense of injustice
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Treatment decisions lie in wait for new head of family division
A new head has been appointed for the High Court's family division, which deals with the most sensitive issues of medical treatment - those involving patients who may lack the capacity to take their own decisions.
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Part-timers' pension rights extended
The long-running battle over part time workers' pension rights, which could cost public and private-sector employers an estimated £10-17bn, moved a step closer to resolution last month.
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Latest drug trials case claims professor's scalp
The General Medical Council has struck off a former research director for serious professional misconduct in the latest in a raft of cases involving allegations of misbehaviour in clinical drug trials.
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in brief: Employment Appeal Tribunal
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has taken the rare step of branding as 'perverse' a finding by an employment tribunal that a dismissal was fair. A perverse decision has been defined in cases as one which is 'irrational', 'fundamentally wrong', or which 'offends reason' or 'flies in the fact of properly ...
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in brief: Andrew Hobart
Andrew Hobart, chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee, has warned that 'the threat of industrial action will not be removed' until an agreement over pay and hours has been agreed with the government. In a letter to all juniors, he described a Department of Health claim that ...