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Treasury targets off-payroll public sector salaries
The chief secretary to the Treasury has stressed that all public sector employees “should be on the payroll and paying the correct amount of tax”.
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Minimum alcohol price set to become law
Plans for minimum alcohol pricing will be approved in Scotland today, which will become in the process the first part of the UK to pass the legislation.
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Western Sussex in hospital 'top 40'
PERFORMANCE: Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has been named among the CHKS 40Top Hospitals for the fourth time at an awards ceremony in London.
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Exclusive: Commissioning board engagement and information director revealed
Tim Kelsey is to become the NHS Commissioning Board’s director of patient and public engagement, insight and informatics, HSJ understands.
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Expand independent sector provision, says 'most powerful' hospital chief
The NHS’s most powerful hospital trust chief executive has used a HSJ interview to call for an expansion of independent sector provision.
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MPs criticise delays in education and training reform
Ministers must provide more detail on their plans to reform health education and training to avoid service disruption and putting patients at risk, the health select committee has warned.
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NW London providers set to learn cluster's service change proposals
STRUCTURE: The provider trusts and clinical commissioning groups of north west London are to be sent a letter with the proposals for service changes on 8 June.
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CQC whistleblower faces sack
The Care Quality Commission board member who gave highly critical evidence about the regulator to the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry is facing the sack, it has emerged.
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Commissioning board seeks £130k GP to 'influence CCGs'
The NHS Commissioning Board is advertising a series of senior jobs with salaries over £100,000, including a deputy medical director whose job will need to “actively influence CCGs in their commissioning decisions, providing assurance the activity has robust clinical leadership”.
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Block contract trust sets two-year deal with commissioners
FINANCE: Whittington Health Trust has agreed a two-year block contract deal with commissioners
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NHS North West London makes 82pc of QIPP target
FINANCE: The cluster of eight primary care trusts in north west London had set itself a savings target of £142.3m in 2011-12 but achieved £116.5m.
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Information strategy an early example of major policy process - DH
The government’s newly launched information strategy for health and social care is an early example of how major policy will be made under its reformed system, according to the Department of Health.
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Providers urged to collaborate to speed clinical trial approvals
Providers need to work together to speed up the approval process for clinical trials if the NHS is to realise its potential as a research resource, a senior pharmaceutical industry figure has said
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GP quality monitoring project under threat from reform
PERFORMANCE: A groundbreaking project monitoring the quality of GPs faces an uncertain future once its host strategic health authority is abolished.
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New infection threats emerging to replace MRSA and C difficile
A third of healthcare associated infections are now caused by bacteria that need to be tackled with different infection control techniques to MRSA and C difficile, a report has warned.
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West Yorks PCTs QIPP plan not signed off due to cash problems
FINANCE: The 2012-13 quality, innovation, productivity and prevention plan for the Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield PCT Cluster has not been finally signed off, an SHA cluster board report notes.
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Plan to double radiotherapy service in Sussex
PERFORMANCE: NHS organisations in Sussex have announced plans to more than double radiotherapy provision by 2014, with the help of the private sector.
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Trust's high activity level costs commissioners £27m
FINANCE: Oxford University Hospitals Trust exceeded planned levels of activity by 3.7 per cent in 2011-12, costing the local health economy £26.6m more than expected.
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McKinsey dominates consultancy spend by NHS North West London
FINANCE: McKinsey accounted for nearly three-quarters of NHS North West London’s consultancy spending of £8.8m in 2011-12, new documents reveal.
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