Free-market reforms to be expanded within British NHS

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Great Britain's Conservative Party hopes to put into effect reforms that will increase the efficiency of the National Health Service. Large groups of general practitioners and acute care hospitals will be offered incentives to save money. Any funds not spent can be used by the institutions for needed equipment or other purposes. There are no plans to modify the 24-hour availability of doctors, although the rule is opposed by 73% of general practitioners, who claim it causes them to work 72 hours a week.

HEALTH SERVICES, Planning, Conservative Party (United Kingdom), United Kingdom. National Health Service, Health care reform

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Psychiatrists might bear brunt of Irish abortion decision

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Ireland's Supreme Court based a decision to allow a 14-year old girl to get an abortion on the prediction that the girl would commit suicide if she were denied an abortion. Ireland permits abortion only when pregnancy poses a 'real and substantial' threat to a woman's life. The court viewed the girl's intention to commit suicide as a 'real and substantial' threat to her life. Psychiatrists may be increasingly called on to predict which women may actually commit suicide.

Ireland, Abortion, Psychiatrists

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Rumblings of tort reform being heard in British Isles

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British appellate judge Lord Wolfe has introduced a bill in Parliament which would place medical negligence cases under the jurisdiction of specially trained judges in designated courts. The tort reform would also place time limits and caps on legal costs for such cases. Medical negligence cases are the most time consuming form of civil litigation in Britain and posed substantial costs to taxpayers.

Direct Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers, Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Surety insurance, Malpractice Insurance, Judicial & Police Procedures, United Kingdom, Cases, Tort reform, Malpractice

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