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Comment: Anger as fitness for purpose programme fails on fairness
'Rather than PCTs being helped to consider and work on weaknesses in a supported way, they are in effect invited to merely record what they already know.'
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Trusts risk tribunal payouts over rights of oldest workers
Trusts could face huge compensation bills handed out by employment tribunals if they do not get to grips with the new age discrimination legislation that comes into force in October, NHS Employers has warned.
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CRE warning over NHS failure on race information
Trusts could face action from the Commission for Racial Equality after just 1 per cent were found to have complied with race equality legislation.
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Government consults ahead of new choice framework
The Department of Health has vowed to involve 'as many people as possible' in a national listening exercise about how to expand choice beyond elective care.
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Mental health choice about culture not venue, says Prior
Choice of treatment is more important than choice of venue in mental health, according to Cliff Prior, chief executive of mental health charity Rethink.
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DoH warning over childbirth target
The NHS could miss its target to expand choice in childbirth, the chair of the Department of Health's choice reference group has warned.
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Don't let NHS get 'hamstrung' by choice, warns Nigel Edwards
The success or failure of policies on choice will be difficult to measure if they are allowed to fragment, warned NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards.
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IT programme at 'risk' due to i-Soft problems, says review
A review of one of the key software products being developed for the national IT programme has warned that it is not only delayed but presents a 'significant risk' of not meeting requirements.
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Cautious welcome for mental health commissioning guidance
Charities and mental health managers have welcomed new commissioning guidance designed to improve the physical health of people with mental health problems. But they have warned of the ?huge task ahead?.
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Anger over NICE colon cancer drug verdict
Charities have reacted angrily to the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence not to recommend the use of two colon cancer drugs.
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Six new hospitals approved in £1.5bn PFI spree
The government has approved six NHS private finance initiative hospital developments worth almost £1.5bn.
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New DoH panel for COPD
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has unveiled a panel of 19 experts to help shape improved standards and greater choice for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Warning on Agenda for Change
Health minister Lord Warner has written to all senior managers in the NHS expressing concerns at the slow progress of ensuring contract staff in catering, cleaning and ancillary services are on contracts that give them parity with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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Pension scheme outsourcing delay
The Public and Commercial Services Union has welcomed an announcement by the NHS Business Services Authority that it is to shelve any decision on outsourcing its pension scheme to the private sector until the new NHS scheme has been successfully implemented.
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Ballot on NHS Logistics strike
Workers at the NHS Logistics Authority, which supplies the NHS across England, are set to ballot for strike action in opposition to the awarding of a £4bn supplies contract to Texas-based company Novation and its German partner DHL
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Fresh food roll-out
A new pilot scheme to give freshfood vouchers to low-income families has been judged a success and will be rolled out nationally in November.
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Mental health consent review
The Mental Health Act Commission is reviewing its service which gives a second opinion to patients who refuse consent for treatment or are incapable of giving it.
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Doctors not ready to cope with major incidents
Doctors are not prepared for major incidents, according to the results of a survey by a team from Wycombe Hospital in Buckinghamshire.
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Yorkshire and Humber fills five of nine top PCT posts
Profiles of cohort of new PCT chief executives
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SNP to review free care policy
Scotland's main opposition party has pledged a review of the flagship free personal care policy if it wins power in next year's Scottish Parliament elections.