A FORMER health worker has won £825,000 damages from a health trust after being seriously injured in attacks by patients.
Lisa Carter, 38, was repeatedly punched, stamped on and bitten in a series of vicious assaults while working as a community carer for people with severe learning disabilities.
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The government's policy change over 'top-up' treatment is not all it seems, writes Jon Robins
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The government will today be accused of double standards after new figures showed that senior civil servants are awarding themselves bumper pay rises while endorsing modest, below inflation, rises to staff on lower grades.
Alan Johnson, the health secretary, will be called on to explain the discrepancy, which has seen the most senior NHS civil servant receiving a pay award of up to 13%, while nurses are forced to accept a 1.9% increase.
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Patients get poorer healthcare in Britain than in the former Soviet republic of Estonia where services are provided for a fraction of the cost, according to a league table of 31 European countries published yesterday.
The Euro Health consumer index, compiled by a Brussels-based Swedish research institute, shows that the Netherlands and Denmark have the most consumer-friendly healthcare systems.
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Nurses told to accept rise below inflation by chief given 26 per cent increase. David Nicholson, who became NHS chief executive in 2006, earned the equivalent of between £195,000 and £200,000 in that financial year. The head of the NHS in England received a huge pay rise of up to 32 per cent at the same time as presiding over a below-inflation pay deal for nurses. Ministers face accusations of allowing the budget for senior NHS managers to almost treble in the past three years, from £1.2m to over £3.4m.
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Patients receive worse healthcare in the UK than in former Soviet state Estonia, a report claims today.
Services in Britain were ranked 13th - one spot above Hungary - in a league table of 31 European nations.
Responding to the results, Health Secretary Alan Johnson condemned the data as "flawed".
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Errors that caused serious harm to mothers and babies have accounted for nearly half of the £2.1 billion paid out as a result of medical negligence since 1995, The Times has learnt.
A total of £947 million has been spent on compensation relating directly to obstetrics, reflecting the increasing cost of lifetime care for children who have suffered brain damage, cerebral palsy or developmental delay.
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Sarah Collier had worked as a midwife at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead for three years before she was admitted to give birth to her son Joel, now 6. During the labour there were long periods when the baby was in distress, and Joel’s parents believe that their son’s cerebral palsy is a result of a lack of oxygen he received.
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People want to see tougher action taken against the NHS when it fails to help patients in pain, a poll suggests.
A Help the Aged survey of more than 1,000 people found nearly two-thirds thought hospitals should be penalised for poor "pain management".
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A THREE-year expansion programme for dental services throughout Western Cheshire has resulted in an extra 30 NHS dentists providing access to treatment.
Working with dental practices from Malpas to Frodsham and Neston to Tarporley, the region’s Primary Care Trust (PCT) can ensure its population can now access NHS dental services no matter where they live.
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THE former assistant manager of a medical practice in Workington, “cooked the books” to pay herself tens of thousands of pounds more than she was entitled to, a court heard on Tuesday.
Sandra Lancaster, 50, got away with so much from the Ann Burrows Thomas Health Centre, in South William Street, Workington, that at one time she was taking home more than some of the doctors, it was alleged.
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The former assistant manager of a medical practice in “cooked the books” to pay herself tens of thousands of pounds more than she was entitled to, a court heard.
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NHS workers are demanding a new pay rise amid claims that the troubled economic climate could lead to severe staff shortages in the health service.
The GMB and other NHS unions have joined forces to press the Government to re-open talks, claiming that a 2.4 per cent pay rise next year would not be enough as inflation continues to soar above five per cent.
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Thousands of NHS staff including mental health nurses, paramedics and ambulance crews have voted to take industrial action in the run up to Christmas in a dispute over pay.
The Unite union described the current deal, worth around 8 per cent over the next three years, as derisory.
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MULTI-MILLION pound plans to redevelop a Wirral hospital have come a step closer after being approved by the region’s strategic health authority.
The £32m plans for St Catherine’s hospital in Birkenhead could see two GP practices from Tranmere moved to the site, along with enhanced facilities.
Wirral’s PCT wants to transform the site – much of which dates back to the Victorian era – into a community hospital providing community, out patient and day case services all on one “integrated site”.
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Mental health workers in Cumbria were rewarded for their hard work and dedication at a special awards ceremony on Sunday night.
The first ever Spotlight Awards saw 170 staff and guests gather at Carlisle Racecourse in recognition of their efforts over the past year.
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A HEALTH worker is attacked everyday on average in East Lancashire, shock new figures reveal.
Some 391 health workers reported being assaulted over the past 12 months.
The number of attacks has increased by as much as 54 per cent year-on-year in some health trusts.
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Plans for direct elections to health boards in Scotland have come under attack by several NHS authorities.
Bosses in Ayrshire and Arran, Lothian and Tayside said the move could destabilise the service by drawing board rooms into party politics.
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The BBC News website is launching a weekly column where leading clinicians and experts outline their views on health topics.
In the first, "Scrubbing Up", England's Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson explains why he believes the NHS could learn some lessons in customer care.
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A nine-month-old baby died from multiple organ failure the day after being sent home from hospital, an inquest heard.
Aleesha Evans's parents were told by staff at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport that she had a viral infection and needed only Calpol and Nurofen.
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