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£98m parking fees 'immoral'
NHS trusts earned £98m from car parking charges in 2005-06 - a 26 per cent increase on the year before, figures presented to the Commons health select committee have revealed.
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Audit office eyes fate of ISTCs
The National Audit Office has confirmed that it is 'watching with interest' the Department of Health's cancellation of at least seven of the planned new independent sector treatment centre schemes.
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Practice-based commissioning: PCTs blamed for sticking to old practices
Practice-based commissioning is being undermined by primary care trusts allocating funds to practices on a historical, rather than needs, basis, the Audit Commission has concluded.
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Scotland health spending 'flatlining' for three years
Health services in Scotland are losers in the first SNP government's budget, seeing a real terms increase of just 1.4 per cent next year, a leading economist has warned.
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£1.8bn NHS underspend 'manageable', says Nicholson
The NHS chief executive has defended its expected record £1.8bn surplus as 'relatively small' and 'healthy'.The 2 per cent underspend, revealed by HSJ earlier today, was 'relatively manageable', David Nicholson told the Commons health select committee.
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Huge disparity in managers' pay, Tories claim
The Conservatives have claimed there is a huge disparity in how much primary care trusts are spending on management salaries.
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Consultants' contract offers no productivity gains, say MPs
There have been 'no measurable improvements' in productivity as a result of the 2003 NHS contract for consultants, MPs have concluded.
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£11m donation for Great Ormond Street
Great Ormond Street Hospital has received a £11m donation from the Barclay Foundation.
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£57.5m earmarked for deep cleaning
Strategic health authorities have together allocated £57.5m to support the government's 'deep clean' drive.In a statement to the House of Commons on 21 November, health secretary Alan Johnson said all NHS hospital trusts should aim to complete their deep cleans by the end of March 2008.
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DoH may wipe financial slate clean for 17 struggling trusts
The Department of Health is considering wiping out historical debts of at least some of the 17 trusts it has classified as 'financially challenged'.
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PCTs will not take on escort and bedwatch roles from Prison Service until April
Primary care trusts will commission prison healthcare security services a year later than planned because of behind-the-scenes wrangling over costs.
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Banks threaten to hit FTs with rate hike over debt guarantees
Banks have threatened to hike up the interest rates they charge foundation trusts in the absence of a guarantee that the government will underwrite their debts.
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Unions fear precedent in FT pay battle
A hospital's refusal to adopt a national pay agreement has raised questions over the limits of foundation trusts' independence.
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ISTC second wave faces cuts
The government is expected to announce significant cuts to the planned second phase of its independent sector treatment centre programme.
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MP demands severance deal figure
A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.
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PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze
District generals' income is set to take a hit as specialist hospitals and primary care trusts move in on their territory. How will they pay PFI debts of £28.5bn, asks Sally Gainsbury
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Mixed response to plans for pharmacy funding
Plans to transfer central funding for pharmacies to primary care trust budgets are backed by the NHS but opposed by many pharmacies.
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E-procurement strategy / launch.
Lyn WhitfieldImproving data quality and getting systems to work together are more or less the first issues to arise whenever IT is discussed in the NHS. They apply as much to commercial systems as to clinical ones.Yet the health service has tended not to take a common approach when it ...
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Early Christmas bonus for Birmingham staff overpaid £200k
Christmas has come early for more than 300 primary care trust workers. They have been told they need not repay an average of £600 paid to them by mistake over the past three-and-a-half years.
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Delayed discharge of elderly blamed on funding gap
Bed-blocking is being driven up because hospitals are discharging patients earlier and social services do not have the resources to cope, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services has claimed.