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Article Abstract:

The Assn of Community Health Councils (ACHCEW) and Action for Victims of Medical Accidents (AVMA) have put forward radical proposals for the establishment of a central clearing house, the health-standards inspectorate, to deal with complaints from patients. The new body would inspect health-care institutions as well as dealing with compensation without involving the courts and with any necessary disciplinary action. Medical and nursing interest groups will be opposed to the introduction of the new body which the ACHCEW and AVMA say is needed because the present system provides little or no redress for victims of medical accidents.

United Kingdom, Innovations, Hospitals, Medical errors, Consumer complaints, Complaints (Administrative procedure)

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Streets apart

Article Abstract:

Medical experts are concerned about reports that the popular television soap opera 'Coronation Street' is to show a man dying under the anaesthetic before his kidney can be removed for transplantation into a young woman suffering from kidney failure. They believe that this will deter people from becoming kidney donors, having a damaging effect on the years of hard work which have been put into increasing donor numbers. They are now putting pressure on Granada Television, which produces the programme, to change the plot.

Kidneys, Kidney transplantation

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Allowing for loss

Article Abstract:

A study by Disaster Action finds that bereavement counselling can be very helpful, but is not always as effective as it could be and is sometimes not offered at all. Complaints about counselling include setting time limits on grief, being told how to feel and inaccessibility. Also, offers of counselling are not always taken up due lack of encouragement and the reluctance to discuss death.

Care and treatment, Practice, Counseling, Bereavement

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