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SHA's proposed cut to mental health funding 'disgraceful'
FINANCE: A strategic health authority has asked staff to plan for a cut of nearly two-thirds in its mental health research and analysis budget to make up a shortfall on cancer projects.
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Terence Stephenson appointed Academy of Medical Royal Colleges chair
Terence Stephenson has been appointed the chair elect of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
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Ealing Hospital over-performs on planned activity by £8.5m
FINANCE: The west London acute trust recorded a year-end overperformance of £8.5m.
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Leader
The DH continues to dance around the issue of CCG freedoms
What will CCGs do with their “assumed liberty”?
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'Incentives required' to improve arthritis support
GPs should be offered incentives to improve the care of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who continue to be “systematically and appallingly let down by the NHS”, according to Arthritis Care.
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HSJ Local
Southampton researchers find milk benefits premature babies
RESEARCH: A neonatal expert based at Southampton’s teaching hospitals says earlier introduction of milk feeds for premature babies can improve their health and weight and reduce time spent in intensive care.
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NHS Surrey launches vaccination drive
PERFORMANCE: NHS Surrey is reminding parents of the importance of protecting their children by getting them vaccinated.
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HSJ Local
North Cumbria savings target under pressure from 2011 shortfall
FINANCE: Shortfalls in North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust’s 2011-12 savings programme have nearly doubled the cost reductions it will need this year, its latest finance report shows.
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Commissioning board chair: liberation of the NHS 'won't happen overnight'
The health service should not expect a “sudden overnight change on 1 April next year” to an autonomous and liberated system, the chair of the NHS Commissioning Board has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Chair of troubled mental health trust resigns
WORKFORCE: The chair of a troubled mental health trust has resigned and its chief executive has gone on leave ahead of the publication of a report into the organisation’s governance.
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NHS Trust Development Authority chair appointed
The body responsible for pushing NHS trusts through the foundation trust authorisation process has appointed a chair.
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News
Mandate will test government's 'political grip' on NHS
The government must use its first “mandate” to prove its “willingness to truly release a tight political grip from the NHS”, Malcolm Grant said.
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HSJ Local
Troubled Yorkshire trust may need to be split up
FINANCE: A Yorkshire hospital trust has begun addressing its huge financial challenge, but will later need to attempt major service reconfiguration, and may ultimately face being split up.
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PCTs bypassed in applications to Cancer Drugs Fund
Doctors have been told they can bypass primary care trust funding processes and apply direct to the controversial Cancer Drugs Fund in certain cases, under new guidelines issued by the Department of Health.
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Expect years of fundamental changes and austerity, says Grant
Malcolm Grant has predicted “fundamental changes in provision of health services” driven by a “vision” covering “not less than 10 years”.
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News
PCTs restricting availability of contraceptives
Primary care trusts are restricting the availability and prescribing of contraceptives leaving 3.2 million women without access to a full range of services, according to a report by a group of experts.
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HSJ Local
Nursing director follows chief exec and chair out of James Paget
WORKFORCE: Nursing director Carole Crocker is the latest senior manager to leave the troubled James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust in Great Yarmouth.
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HSJ Local
Locum costs and bed pressures key risk to Weston budget
FINANCE: Expenditure on locum staffing is one of the key risks to the delivery of Weston Area Health Trust’s 2012-13 budget, papers presented to April’s board reveal.
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NHS Direct staff uncertain over future as 111 deals pick up pace
NHS Direct staff in the North East still do not know whether they will be transferred to the new NHS 111 service due to go live in 12 months.
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HSJ Local
Prostate treatment pioneered at Southampton
Doctors at University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust are the first in the UK to use a pioneering non-surgical procedure to treat men suffering an enlarged prostate.