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Modernisation Agency is no longer 'hit squad'
The NHS Modernisation Agency looks set to take a developmental rather than a punitive approach, distancing NHS performance management from the hit-squad approach.
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Warnings of 'changes in style'as new broooms sweep key regions
Acting regional directors John Bacon and Ruth Carnall have been appointed to take up substantive posts in London and the South East.
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the young people's health congress
Catching them early: the young people's health congress, involving more than 100 youngsters from around Scotland, took part in a mock health debate in the Scottish Parliament.
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In Brief
All NHS staff who do not have a professional qualification will have access to an individual learning account of £150 or dedicated training to NVQ levels 2 and 3 from 1 April. Employers are being encouraged to collaborate with local education providers to foster personal and career development for staff.
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Peers in cross-party resolve to force health bill concessions
The government faces almost 250 amendments to its Health and Social Care Bill in the Lords and is under pressure to make concessions on four key policy areas or risk losing the legislation altogether.
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'Bigger is better may be just a myth when it comes to PCG mergers'
Rapid moves to merger by primary care groups may be a mistake as there is no evidence that bigger is better, according to the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre.
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Four step down over breacches of hospital trust wait guarantee
Attempts to conceal breaches of the 18-month waiting-list guarantee at Stoke Mandeville Hospital trust led to the resignation of the chair and three non-executive directors last week.
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King's Fund Millennium Awards
Ife Piankhi from the Black Angels Mothership Community Project and her daughter Kha'mara join Tony Banks MP, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, chief executive of the King's Fund (right), and Isabella Kpobie from the King's Fund (left) at the launch of the King's Fund Millennium Awards, which total £1. 3m and will ...
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Short cuts
Budget warning follows latest NICE drug approvals The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has approved the use of orlistat for obesity and pioglitazone for type-2 diabetes by the NHS in England and Wales. Orlistat may be prescribed to clinically obese adults who also have another serious illness such as high ...
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Internal market is swept away in NI
Health boards and trusts in Northern Ireland have been set tough targets of reducing waiting lists by 48,000 and cutting the number of patients waiting longer than 18 months by half within the next year.
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Confed sighs as election salvo hits out at 'interfering managers'
Manager bashing has made its first appearance of the general election campaign, with a Conservative Party leaflet attacking Labour over 'interfering'NHS managers.
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Women quitting unequal NHS
Education on gender equality should be included in NHS staff contracts and performance review, deputy ombudsman Hilary Scott said last week.
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Trust staff get £50,000 to look after number one
Staff at Leicestershire and Rutland Healthcare trust are receiving £50,000 of pampering this month after managers agreed to match the government's one-off £25,000 payment to trusts to improve working lives in the NHS.
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Days like this
Selling surplus buildings. . . Reducing phone bills. . . Explosion of bureaucracy as management jobs increase. . . Nurse grading appeals. . .
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Size is not everything
Are the new health authorities coming through this week likely to be better and beefier - or just bigger and harder to manage? Ann McGauran reports
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Billion-dollar man
The chancellor rounded off his Budget munificence with a £1bn tonic for the NHS. Where's it all going? Lynn Eaton reports
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Stars and gripes
The knives are already out in some quarters for American Beverly Malone, who beat post of RCN general secretary.
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Gordon's generosity could become a spent force
COMMENT : Does his largesse only flag up the NHS's insatiable appetite for resources?
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That was PCGs, that was
COMMENT : Cause for disquiet as lifespan of new organisations gets ever shorter
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One size doesn't fit all
The latest IT fad is the idea of single-system procurements for the whole of the NHS. The service has had more than its share of IT failures, but this is the first time an IT initiative could bring it to its knees.