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NewsDiabetes medication costing NHS £725m a year
Drugs to treat people with diabetes now take up almost a tenth of the entire NHS budget for medicine, new data released by the service’s information division shows.
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HSJ LocalTrust wins backing to vacate £3.6m PFI unit
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust has won backing for its controversial plan to vacate the £3.6m-a-year PFI building it occupies in the grounds of Manchester Royal Infirmary.
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NewsLung disease costs to rise in retirement hotspots
Health commissioners for seaside retirement communities are being urged to adopt the latest guidance on the treatment of lung disease to buttress themselves against a predicted surge in the cost of the illness in these areas.
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Channel islands shift cardiac business from London specialist hospital to Southampton
COMMERCIAL: The health authorities of Guernsey and Alderney are moving roughly £1.3m of specialist treatment from a London teaching hospital to a trust on the south coast.
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Construction contract awarded for Broadmoor
COMMERCIAL: West London Mental Health NHS Trust has signed a £7m building contract with construction company Willmott Dixon to improve facilities at Broadmoor Hospital.
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NewsHospitals seeing 900 more alcohol related cases a day
Nearly 900 more people a day are being admitted to hospitals in England with drink related problems compared to five years ago, figures show.
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Yeovil on the hunt for a commercial partner
COMMERCIAL: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is seeking a commercial partner in order to maximise private patient income.
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East and North Herts awards building contract
COMMERCIAL: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has signed a £5m building contract with construction company Willmott Dixon.
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Queen Victoria awards construction contract
COMMERCIAL: Queen Victoria NHS FT has signed an £8m building contract with construction company Willmott Dixon.
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NewsFuture Forum adds integrating care as priority
Integration within and across the health and social care sectors has been named a new priority area for the NHS Future Forum, whose second phase of work was launched by the prime minister last week.
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Poor performance sparks concerns over commissioning relationship in Mid Essex
PERFORMANCE: The East of England strategic health authority has raised concerns over a “deficient commissioning relationship” between NHS Mid Essex and Mid Essex Hospital Services Trust.
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NewsListening exercise workstreams continue to identify concerns
Four clear areas for recommendations will take forward the NHS Future Forum’s remit to inform the government’s reforms.
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Bolton GP commissioners forecast to overspend delegated budgets by £1.4m
FINANCE: The area’s clinical commissioners are forecast to overspend their delegated budgets by £1.4m this year, the primary care trust’s latest finance report shows.
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GWAS looks for partner to make FT status
STRUCTURE: The board of Great Western Ambulance Service has decided it is not viable for the organisation to go it alone as a foundation trust and has announced it will look for a partner.
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SHA backs Southern Health's move to close community hospital
STRUCTURE: The South Central strategic health authority has backed plans by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust to close a community hospital.
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Winchester and Eastleigh consults on maternity services
STRUCTURE: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has launched a consultation on the future of maternity services in its area.
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Derbyshire consults on talking therapies service
STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Derbyshire have launched a consultation on plans to reconfigure mental health services in the county, which could involve shutting some services.
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LeaderRival factions fight for influence in Future Forum’s second coming
Why continue with the NHS reform listening exercise? The NHS is already changing with a momentum no report is likely to affect.
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NewsLansley is taking us back to medical domination - Lord Crisp
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is taking the NHS back to a “medical model” dominated by doctors rather than moving to empower patients and communities, according to former NHS chief executive Lord Nigel Crisp.
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NewsNHS patients will wait longer under reform - Unison
The number of private patients that hospitals can treat will spiral and push those on the NHS to the bottom of waiting lists under the government’s health reforms, a public sector union has claimed.