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Health Bill dissent 'destabilising' for NHS - Alliance chief
Doubt has been cast on the government’s NHS reform drive after Liberal Democrat dissent forced health secretary Andrew Lansley to admit further changes could be made to the plans.
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Managers back calls for top earners to pay more towards pensions
The vast majority of managers responding to a snap online HSJ survey think higher earners should pay more towards their NHS pensions.
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MPs told of budget topslicing 'risk'
Providers could face financial difficulties if commissioning consortia decide to topslice their budgets to create risk pools, the Commons health committee has heard.
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Labour tables amendments to planned Monitor role
Labour has put forward amendments to the Health Bill to remove Monitor’s planned powers as an enforcer of competition law.
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Performance linked pay for managers labelled a 'distraction'
Linking the stay of senior staff to national objectives would be an “unhelpful distraction”, according to the NHS managers’ union.
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Performance bonuses: a fair swap for public service pension reform?
“There is a much stronger case for linking pay to performance at the senior levels of public organisations, as opposed to the rest of the workforce”.
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2013 has already arrived for some regions
It is an iron rule of NHS reform that development is both geographically patchy and concentrated in certain areas - look at the progress made in tackling heart disease compared with the record on sexual health, or how performance in the South West has consistently outstripped other regions.
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DH struggling to achieve consultant choice within deadline
Patients’ ability to choose between named consultant led teams for elective hospital care looks unlikely to be significantly extended by the government’s deadline in April.
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Challenged hospitals funds used to bail out PCTs
Nearly 40 per cent of a £392m fund set up to pay off the historic debts of London’s financially challenged organisations has been used to bail out commissioners.
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King's Fund calls to unite health and social care budgets
The government must adopt a single budget for £121bn of health and social care funding to stop the two systems fighting against each other, the King’s Fund has warned.
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Monitor 'happy' with Mid Staffs death toll
A former board director at Mid Staffordshire has spoken of his “amazement” that Monitor did not pick up on the hospital’s problems during its authorisation process to become a foundation trust.
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NHS must reverse falling productivity ahead of reforms
Falling NHS productivity must be urgently reversed before planned reforms go ahead, the public accounts committee has said.
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Midwife numbers to be reviewed
The Department of Health has said it will prioritise a review of nurse and midwife numbers.
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West Midlands cluster chiefs announced
NHS West Midlands has announced who will be leading the region’s five primary care trust clusters.
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HSJ Local
East Kent Hospitals University FT likely to seek £8m surplus next year
FINANCE: East Kent Hospitals University FT is considering whether to set an £8m surplus target for the next financial year.
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Monitor holds up Dorset community services transfer
STRUCTURE: The transfer of community heathcare services to Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust is likely to be delayed beyond the Department of Health’s April 1 deadline due to a lack of capacity at the foundation trust regulator Monitor.
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Doctors give verdict on health reform
Doctors have made clear the opposition to the Health Bill within the profession, but stopped short of opposing the bill in its entirety.
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Bradford, Leeds and North Yorkshire PCTs remain unclustered
STRUCTURE: Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT, Leeds PCT and North Yorkshire and York PCT are to remain independent, rather than clustering with other PCTs.
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Calderdale PCT joins cluster and chief exec departs
STRUCTURE: Calderdale PCT has clustered with Kirklees and Wakefield District PCTs, and chief executive Rob Webster is leaving to run a new community provider trust.
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Rotherham chief exec to lead five PCTs cluster
STRUCTURE: Rotherham PCT chief executive Andy Buck will lead a five PCT cluster with Doncaster, Bassetlaw, Sheffield and Barnsley PCTs.