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Nicholson warns price competition could be 'extremely dangerous'
Allowing NHS hospitals to compete on price will be “extremely dangerous” without strong safeguards to protect quality, Sir David Nicholson told MPs this week.
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Commissioning board should run large scale 'experiments' - UnitedHealth head
The NHS Commissioning Board should run a series of large scale “experiments” designed to test solutions to the growing burden of chronic disease, UnitedHealth’s president of global health Simon Stevens claimed this week. Successful programmes should be made “part of the NHS benefits package”.
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MPs: NHS white paper lacked 'credible plan'
The Commons health committee has strongly criticised the government’s approach to NHS reform - particularly its “surprise” announcement of the abolition of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.
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Tory peer almost 'lost will to live' working on Change4Life campaign
A Conservative peer has given a highly critical assessment of her experience of working with the Department of Health on public health campaigns.
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Private sector takeover not as imminent as some may have it
The week began with a media feeding frenzy around the government’s NHS reforms created by the imminent publication of the health bill. Dire warnings were ten a penny, while the PM adopted a Thatcherite “no alternative” stance.
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General hospital wards worse for heart patients
People with heart failure are twice as likely to die if they are admitted to a general hospital ward rather than one specialising in cardiology, research has suggested.
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PCT grant cuts Dorset shortfall
Dorset county council’s budget shortfall will be cut by £2.8m after an extra government grant was afforded to the county’s primary care trust.
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Increment deal 'still on the table' as Employers meets with unions
NHS Employers is meeting with unions today to discuss the rejected proposal to freeze pay increments and avoid compulsory redundancies.
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Cameron steps in to defend health reforms
The prime minister has defended his government’s NHS reform proposals, saying there is “no quiet life option”.
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Minister fires warning shot over cuts to PCT public health posts
Public health minister Anne Milton has told primary care trusts not to cut public health capacity, ahead of their transfer to local authorities as part of the government’s health reforms.
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Three single-practice consortia made pathfinders
The average population size among pathfinder commissioning consortia remains large, but there are three single-practice groups among those announced today.
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Health secretary announces 89 more pathfinders
More than half the English population is covered by pathfinder commissioning consortia after the Department of Health announced a further 89.
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Healey appoints new adviser from NHS Confed
The NHS Confederation’s senior policy manager has been appointed as a special adviser to shadow health secretary John Healey.
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Warnings over NHS reforms
Health bosses have warned of closed hospitals, treatment rationing and lower standards of patient care as a result of the government’s controversial reforms of the NHS.
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RCS warns on 'backdoor rationing' in NHS
The NHS is adopting a “dangerous path” by stopping certain elective surgical procedures to save money, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England has warned.
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Man held over hospital staff attack
A man is being held by police in connection with an attack at a hospital that left two staff members and five patients injured.
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Flu jab restriction 'not down to cutting costs'
The government’s chief medical adviser has insisted that cost-cutting was not to blame for the decision not to vaccinate all under-fives against flu.
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Dementia research funding prioritised
The government has urged researchers to apply for funding for dementia studies, after pledging to prioritise the disease.
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Winter flu deaths reach 112
Flu claimed the lives of 112 people in the UK since September, according to government data.
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Consultants highlight hidden costs of NHS white paper
Plans to ramp up commercialisation in the NHS will lead to more money being paid out in overtime as trusts are unable to plan for the future, consultants have warned.