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NewsFormer Blair health adviser returns to Cameron's number 10
A consultant who led the health targets and finances team of Tony Blair’s delivery unit has been appointed as the new health adviser to 10 Downing Street.
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Sandwell chief executive appointed to top Midlands cluster role
WORKFORCE: The current chief executive of NHS Sandwell has been appointed to the top job in the Black Country primary care trust cluster.
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NewsGPs 'to become change agents' - Lord Warner
The government’s planned reforms will “throw down the gauntlet to clinicians and give them their head to produce significant change”, according to the coalition-appointed chair of the Social Care Funding Commission.
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Worcestershire PCT boss gets top Midlands cluster job
WORKFORCE: Worcestershire’s chief executive has been appointed to the top role at the West Mercia primary care trust cluster.
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Stoke on Trent chief appointed to top Midlands cluster role
WORKFORCE: The chief executive of NHS Stoke on Trent has been appointed to the top position in the Staffordshire primary care trust cluster.
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NewsReport into C diff deaths at hospital delayed
The results of an inquiry into a hospital bug outbreak that claimed 18 lives will be delayed by more than a year.
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NewsGP appointment frustrations revealed
Hundreds of thousands of people cannot book GP appointments because none are available, or struggle to get through to their surgery on the phone, according to a new survey.
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Guy's and St Thomas's A and E under pressure
PERFORMANCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust went on to “red status” for the first time ever for emergency admissions in January.
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Agency spend rises at Guy's and St Thomas'
WORKFORCE: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is hiring 250 nurses after noting a “worrying” increasing dependency on temporary staff.
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Former Walsall PCT boss appointed to Birmingham cluster role
WORKFORCE: NHS Walsall’s former chief executive has been appointed to the top role at the Birmingham primary care trust cluster.
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Coventry PCT boss appointed to cluster role
WORKFORCE: NHS Coventry’s chief executive has been appointed to the top role in the cluster
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NewsDozens of consortia match PCT area
Nearly half of primary care trusts are expecting a single commissioning consortium to span the same geographical area that they currently cover.
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Pace of consortia handovers varying widely
A quarter of primary care trusts are racing ahead to hand over commissioning budgets while a third have no clear plans to “let go”.
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Community nurses aligned with GP practices
STRUCTURE: A major re-organisation of community nursing in East Kent has seen district nursing teams aligned with GP practices.
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NewsFT severance payouts to come under scrutiny
The NHS chief executive has promised MPs to do all he can to provide details of severance payouts made by foundation trusts.
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NewsDon't simply cut posts to deliver QIPP savings, Easton warns trusts
The Department of Health will be “increasingly discriminating” between trusts that find genuine efficiencies and those that simply cut posts, national director for improvement Jim Easton has warned.
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NewsDH ignored advice to cut children's acute top-ups
A report on the true cost of specialised care has provided fresh evidence that the government bowed to political pressure not to reduce funding to children’s acute services.
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NewsHealth Bill dissent 'destabilising' for NHS - Alliance chief
Doubt has been cast on the government’s NHS reform drive after Liberal Democrat dissent forced health secretary Andrew Lansley to admit further changes could be made to the plans.
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NewsManagers back calls for top earners to pay more towards pensions
The vast majority of managers responding to a snap online HSJ survey think higher earners should pay more towards their NHS pensions.
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NewsMPs told of budget topslicing 'risk'
Providers could face financial difficulties if commissioning consortia decide to topslice their budgets to create risk pools, the Commons health committee has heard.