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Private contractors urge managers to join them to learn more about PFI
Public service managers involved in private finance initiative schemes should be seconded to the private sector to learn more about the workings of commercial organisations, according to a National Audit Office survey.
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No-star trust chair quits as workload pressures mount
The chair of a no-star trust has resigned half way through the three-month probation period it had been given to sort its problems out, with workload pressures likely to have influenced her decision to go.
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Brown's £1bn 'will not yield quick returns'
The NHS budget is set to rise significantly over the next few years after the Treasury review of longterm trends in healthcare, chaired by former National Westminster Bank group chief executive Derek Wanless, showed that major increases in funding were needed to keep pace with an ageing population and advances ...
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Hospital choice widens in bid to cut waiting time
The government is expected to announce by Christmas that patients who have been waiting the longest for operations will be able to get treatment outside their own area, in a further effort to ensure the 15-month waitingtime target is met by next March.
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The final report of Scotland's inquiry into organ retention has recommended a total overhaul of the 1961 Human Tissue Act covering post-mortem and organ retention, which it says is 'vague and uncertain'.The review says all post-mortems should be authorised by relatives, with penalties for breaches.Draft standards on post-mortem and organ ...
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Audit Commission and NICE invest to boost profile
The Audit Commission and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence are investing significant resources in communications in an attempt to boost their profiles.
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De Brun reveals huge spending disparities between Northern Ireland's community trusts
Expenditure per head of population varies by more than £200 between Northern Ireland's community trusts, health minister Bairbre de Brun revealed last week.
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PFI cleared of blame for bed shortages
Delayed discharges and not the private finance initiative lie behind bed shortages at Cumbria's flagship hospital, the Cumberland Infirmary, according to a report.
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Regions and SHAs jockey for position
Last-minute wrangling at the Department of Health over the shape of regional offices this week looked set to hold up a crucial document outlining NHS bodies' new roles and responsibilities under the Shifting the Balance of Power in the NHS reorganisation.
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HA yields to pressure to save elder-care hospital
West Surrey health authority has decided to keep open the 75-year-old Milford Hospital after local consultation and a vigorous campaign from the Liberal Democrats.
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GPs gain graduate ENT diploma in outpatient skills
The first 18 GP ear nose and throat specialists have graduated with a diploma from Middlesex University, validated by the Royal College of General Practitioners.The year-long distance-learning course was designed to improve diagnostic skills and allow GPs to carry out procedures otherwise done in an outpatient department.Ram Dhillon, consultant ENT ...
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NICE goes ahead with advisory 'citizens council'
A new 'citizens council' is being set up to offer advice to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.
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NHS agency reveals plans to provide locum doctors
The NHS in-house employment agency is to expand its services to cover locum doctors in a bid to cut the £100m bill for recruiting doctors through private agencies.Doctors using NHS Professionals will be entitled to NHS pensions, annual leave and training opportunities.A £12m initiative to encourage flexible careers for medical ...
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Medical secretaries clinch new pay and grading deal
Medical secretaries at North Glasgow University Hospital trust are claiming victory after they accepted a new offer on their long-running pay and grading dispute.Unison members had resumed strike action after accusing the trust of reneging on an earlier settlement.ACAS was brought in and further talks took place before agreement was ...
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Union does not rule out PPP, MPs told
The Manufacturing, Science and Finance union has told MPs it has no objections to public-private partnerships in the NHS, provided quality and value can be assured.
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Transfer snags blight PFI pilots
Unions and contractors have warned that the private finance initiative pilots - working on a model for transferring NHS staff to private companies - still face huge problems in agreeing contractual arrangements, despite Unison's acceptance that the pilots can proceed.
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Public health doctors want SHA level director
Public health doctors are calling for a director post to be created in strategic health authorities in a bid to make 'public health targets as important as waiting lists'.