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'Bar-room' deal claims as top posts are promised in SHAs before consultation
Managers have been promised jobs running new strategic health authorities in 'bar-room deals' even before consultation on the new bodies has started, HSJ sources have claimed.
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MSF in turmoil over PPP stance
Prime minister Tony Blair's speech on public service reform this week threw the MSF union into turmoil as its leader appeared to make a U-turn over the private sector's role in the NHS.
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In Brief
Investigators trawling through records at Hammersmith Hospitals trust's breast-screening service have recruited health authorities to track down patients who have still not been contacted about their results.An inquiry was launched earlier this year following an external audit of over 100,000 files where at least 11 recall errors were uncovered.A Commission ...
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NHS 'icon'gets performance role
Margaret Edwards, chief executive of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals trust, has been appointed to a new post as director of performance for the NHS.
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Crisp's DoH blueprint for the future sees major shift in responsibilities
NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has unveiled his blueprint for the future shape of the Department of Health, with 'a smaller group of key priorities' and a single top team across health and social care.
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Addition to traffic lights in bid to spare high-profile blushes
The Department of Health has decided to introduce an extra category in the traffic-lighting system as speculation mounts about how it can avoid high-profile managers being associated with trusts that are seen to be failing.
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Standards set to beat racial harassment
NHS employers will be ordered to meet a national standard in a bid to tackle racial harassment, the Department of Health is due to announce today.
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Care trusts on back burner as interest drops
The setting up of care trusts could effectively be shelved as primary care trusts concentrate on the delivery of improved health services, it has emerged.
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Political bias claims continue to dog PCTs
An investigation by the public appointments commissioner has found that measures to correct 'political imbalance' in appointments to primary care trust boards have not worked.
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Personal data complaints on the rise and showing no sign of slowdown
Complaints about how NHS bodies handle data have tripled in the last year and are likely to keep on rising.
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RCN calls for involvement in deciding PPP role
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Beverley Malone has called for the union to be 'at the table when decisions are made'on the role of the private sector in public services.But while other union leaders have been in Downing Street talks on public-private partnerships, Dr Malone has admitted that the ...
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Consultant and nurse vacancies remain stable
Vacancies for consultants and nurses in England have changed little over the last 12 months.The three-month vacancy rate for consultants was 3 per cent in March - a rise of 0.2 per cent on the previous year.And vacancies for qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors fell by 0.5 per cent, ...
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Apology after elderly man is kicked to death
Chief executive of Leicestershire and Rutland trust Martin Taylor has apologised to the family of a 72-year-old man kicked to death by a patient with schizophrenia.An inquiry by Leicestershire health authority criticised the care of Kevin Hewitt, who had stopped taking his medication and had not been seen by a ...
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PCTs 'HQs' must be based in local communities'
Primary care trusts should be setting up their headquarters within local communities rather than near acute services, according to John Ashton, director of public health at North West region.'Under the Conservatives, we saw a lot of health authorities and trusts have their headquarters on business parks, 'he said.'It was symbolic, ...
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Hutt opts for waiting times rather than list targets
The NHS in Wales is to abandon waiting-list targets and focus on waiting times.The move was confirmed by health minister Jane Hutt while speaking at the Innovations in Care conference in Cardiff last week.She also said the new measures will be phased in over the next year, with waits for ...
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Clampdown demanded on enforced treatment
Mental health campaigners are calling on the government to take action against the rising numbers of patients being subjected to enforced treatment.The Mental Health Alliance has drawn up a charter, Care Before Compulsion, to influence future reforms of the Mental Health Act. In 1995,10 per cent of admissions to psychiatric ...
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'No threat' to GMC from new assessment body
The General Medical Council has insisted that it does not see a longterm threat to its role as a regulatory body from the newly created National Clinical Assessment Authority.
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Trust failed to check up on locums
The Commission for Health Improvement has criticised a hospital trust, accusing it of not conducting checks on locum doctors.
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news focus: Bristol
Much of the evidence to the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry makes harrowing reading.Perhaps hardest to bear are the accounts from parents reliving the experiences - in public - surrounding the loss of their child.The next few weeks will bring them back under the public gaze.The three-year inquiry builds on the ...