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Protocol aims to cut claims against NHS
Health authorities and trusts will be offered training in the use of a new clinical negligence protocol which aims to settle claims earlier.
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news focus; Circular arguments
Despite wide consultation, many groups remain unhappy as guidance on setting up primary care groups approaches publication, writes Mark Crail
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Negotiating a new career
When one of the best-known and most respected human resource managers in the NHS effectively 'switched sides' last month to become a trade union official, the move raised eyebrows among his former colleagues.
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Country matters
The suspension of Stracathro Hospital's medical director has raised doubts about its future - and concern among groups representing cancer patients. Barbara Millar reports
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Low claims bonus
Trusts can already cut the cost of dealing with negligence claims - now a new protocol aims to stop cases reaching the courts. Pat Healy reports
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MPs attack 'bonanza' spending plan reports
The government's presentation of its public spending plans has come under fierce attack from the Treasury select committee.
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Troubleshooters seek 'root and branch' cure for Welsh deficits
Troubleshooters are being sent in to Cardiff's troubled Morriston Hospital trust to help managers find more than 5m efficiency savings.
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Assembly powers key in Wales quality agenda
The Welsh Assembly will be able to ask the Commission for Health Improvement to investigate 'persistent failures to act' on problems at Welsh health organisations.
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Pay working group collapses as BMA and RCN withdraw
Plans to set up a pay system for the NHS to replace the current mish-mash of review bodies, Whitley councils and local structures have run into trouble with the collapse of a key working group.
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NHS hotline wins 35m expansion
A 35m expansion of the NHS Direct telephone helpline has been announced by health minister Alan Milburn.
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Request for police guidance over use of CS spray
Acute mental health trusts should work with the police to develop guidelines on the use of CS spray on people with mental health problems, researchers from London's Maudsley Hospital have advised.
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Further delay in IT strategy as MPs slam fiasco of Read codes in damning report
The NHS's information technology strategy will not be published until autumn, but is likely to rely heavily on the Read clinical codes despite another damaging report on the programme this week.
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MPs attack 'bonanza' spending plan reports
The government's presentation of its public spending plans has come under fierce attack from the Treasury select committee.
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999 times hit by 'lifestyle change'
The London Ambulance Service has blamed changing lifestyles for worsening 999 response times.
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Reading between the lines on the delayed IT strategy Is it all on hold while the final chapter of the Read codes fiasco unfolds?
What has happened to the NHS's promised new information management and technology strategy? There's still no sign of it - despite the fast- approaching end of IT supremo Frank Burns' secondment in September. The service had been led to believe the strategy's launch was waiting on the results of the ...
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Vote registers the right result Protecting the public - and following best practice - is the priority
A register of paramedics is long overdue, and last week's vote at the Ambulance Service Association's conference in favour of one is welcome. Objections that this would discriminate against paramedics not working in the NHS need to be addressed, but that alone is insufficient reason not to set up a ...