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News
Medicine no longer an "old boys club"
An increase in the number of doctors referred to the General Medical Council by their medical colleagues shows the profession is moving away from being “an old boys’ club”, new research has suggested.
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Exclusive: government funding changes 'will transfer £700m from poor to rich areas'
The government’s decision to give less weight to health inequalities when allocating NHS funds will ultimately lead to £718m a year being transferred from areas with poor health to those with good health, research suggests.
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Exclusive: data security regulation 'should not increase'
The Health Bill is likely to be amended to clarify responsibility for data security, the chair of the national information governance board has told HSJ.
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HSJ Local
Turnaround directors get started at Leicester
FINANCE: Turnaround advisors from Deloitte and Finnamore have started working on the three month contract they have agreed with the trust.
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HSJ Local
NHS Plymouth forced to increase savings targets
FINANCE: NHS Plymouth is £3m behind on its savings plan and is forecasting an underachievement of £8.6m by year end.
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HSJ Local
Doncaster expects £2.9m voluntary redundancy management cut
WORKFORCE: NHS Doncaster is expecting a £2.9m reduction in recurrent annual management costs, because of a voluntary redundancy round.
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Leader
'Only mugs work in commissioning’: tackling the management brain drain
Of all the postgraduate courses in the country, places on the NHS management training scheme are among the most fiercely contested.
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News
Monitor could suspend competition to encourage integration models
Monitor’s chief executive has set out a range of measures the future regulator will consider as it works to reconcile competition and service integration.
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HSJ Local
South London Healthcare Trust reports £3.3m savings shortfall
FINANCE: The south east London acute trust was aiming for savings of £6.8m by the end of month five but missed that by £3.3m.
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HSJ Local
Leicester planning to raise parking charges
FINANCE: The trust is proposing to increase staff parking charges by at least 13.5 per cent.
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HSJ Local
Kirklees PCT sees £4.4m acute overspend
FINANCE: Kirklees PCT is reporting a £4.4m year-to-date overspend against its acute contracts.
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HSJ Local
Six Warwickshire CCGs likely to become four
STRUCTURE: The six clinical commissioning groups in Warwickshire are likely to merge down to four, HSJ has learned.
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'Accelerated' demise of IT scheme needs clarity for involved businesses
IT professionals have called for clarity after the government announced an “acceleration” in the dismantling of the national IT scheme.
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HSJ Local
Sussex Partnership announces £3m upgrade of low secure facilities
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust’s board has agreed plans to improve and expand its secure mental health services in Chichester.
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HSJ Local
'No conflict' in contract awarded to private company associated with commissioners
COMMERCIAL: A clinical commissioning group in the Wirral has awarded a place on a register of “any qualified providers” to a private company associated with most of the GP practices on the group’s board.
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HSJ Local
Sussex Partnership directors pledge to balance books
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust has pledged to safeguard frontline services and deliver a balanced budget for 2011-12, despite facing “challenging times”.
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HSJ Local
Coventry beats year to date surplus target
FINANCE: Coventry primary care trust is reporting a revenue surplus of £3.5m for the first four months of 2011-12, £1.6m better than planned.
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Trusts' cancer targets being missed - Monitor
Almost a quarter of foundation trusts are failing to hit cancer waiting targets while some are also breaching new rules on A&E, according to a new report.
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HSJ Local
'Deficient' practice slipped 'beneath the managerial radar'
PERFORMANCE: A Norfolk nurse-led health centre where there was a “serious deficiency” in safe care suffered a “complete breakdown” in monitoring and accountability arrangements, an independent review has found.
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Nicholson says only 'small number' of PFI hospitals need extra funds
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson appeared to contradict Andrew Lansley today when he told the Mid Staffs inquiry most PFI hospitals were “not in financial difficulty”.