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NewsProbe into patients' drug overdose deaths
Two patients at a psychiatric unit in St Helens have died in suspected drug overdoses, police have said.
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NewsNHS Commissioning Board to check foreign doctors' language skills
The new NHS Commissioning Board is to take responsibility for testing the language and clinical skills of foreign doctors from within the EU, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsGPs 'outraged' at central commissioning of maternity services
GPs say it is “outrageous” that maternity services will be commissioned centrally and not by local consortia.
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NewsSeven provider arms achieve NHS trust status
Seven primary care trust provider arms took the next step towards becoming community foundation trusts when they become NHS trusts today.
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NewsCQC says improvements still needed at Mid Staffs
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been told it still needs to make improvements, more than 18 months after its serious failings were brought to light.
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NewsClock change 'would improve nation's health'
The health and wellbeing of the nation would “vastly” improve if the clocks did not go back this weekend, experts have said.
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NewsMale life expectancy increases to 78
Life expectancy for men has increased by almost three years in the last decade, closing the gender gap with women, government figures showed today.
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NewsCommissioning tools launched for neuro conditions and cardiac rehab
Three charities have developed an online support tool for GP consortia to commission neurological services.
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NewsDH accused of 'wishful thinking' on redundancy costs
Figures being used by the Department of Health to estimate the cost of NHS redundancies have been dismissed as “wishful thinking.”
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NewsHospital trusts hit by £90m fall in earnings
Hospital trusts lost out on income worth approximately £90m during the three months to June as a result of the Department of Health’s policy to restrict funding for emergency admissions.
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NewsExpert predicts GP consortia failure
Many GP led commissioning consortia will fail, a US expert on doctors’ groups has told a Nuffield Trust lecture.
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NewsNHS estate and hotel services heavily outsourced
Almost one third of NHS estate and hotel service costs are now provided through contracts with the private sector, latest figures show.
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NewsNHS Confederation and Slipman agree ‘way forward’
The NHS Confederation has agreed a “collaborative way forward” with the Foundation Trust Network and its suspended chair Sue Slipman.
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LeaderNHS management challenge stays much the same, rich or poor
On 25 April 2002 HSJ gave its verdict on Gordon Brown’s decision to lavish unprecedented riches on the NHS.
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NewsNo evidence GP consortia will be better than PCTs
Primary care trusts should be allowed to “merge or demerge” into more successful commissioning organisations , rather than being swept away and replaced by smaller GP consortia, a think tank has said.
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NewsCapita eyes NHS quangos
Outsourcing firm Capita is looking to take over at least four NHS quangos that currently employ nearly 12,000 people and have a combined budget of more than £2.6bn.
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NewsCRB vetting cost £70m last year
Health and social care sectors spent almost £70 million vetting their staff last year, figures show.
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NewsLansley warns councils against ‘empire building’ in healthcare
Councils have been warned by Westminster politicians not to use their new responsibilities over health to “empire build” or encroach on health service budgets.
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News'Health outcome bond' pilot to attempt hospital admissions cut
A private company plans to launch a “health outcome bond” to provide NHS commissioners with private investment capital in an effort to cut emergency hospital admissions.
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NewsMore choice needed in end of life care, says King's fund report
More should be done to give patients and carers choice about end of life care, according to a report by the King’s Fund.