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Home Office vows fair deal on equality
The government has pledged to ensure everyone gets a fair deal on the provision of healthcare when new legislation banning age discrimination is introduced.
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CQC warning over safety of maternity services at trust
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust has been warned after inspectors found it was not ensuring the safety of women in its maternity unit.
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Nicholson must 'prove he trusts' GP commissioners
Potential consortium leaders will “walk away” unless they are handed sufficient autonomy, leading GP commissioners have warned the NHS chief executive.
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Commissioning funds used to pay for GP basics
GPs have been able to boost their take-home pay by using commissioning funds rather than their general contractors’ income to buy basic medical equipment and fund practice refurbishments, an HSJ investigation reveals.
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Government amends Health Bill
*** UPDATED*** The government has laid an amendment to its Health and Social Care bill removing the previous reference to the tariff being the “maximum” price.
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GPs commission controversial complementary therapies
Having been given the purse strings to the NHS commissioning budget, a host of GPs opted to commission complementary therapies, including acupuncture and aromatherapy.
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'Sensible boundary' needed on GP competition rules, says Monitor
Monitor has stressed the need to avoid an overly restrictive approach to regulating competition issues affecting GP commissioners.
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Sally Davies appointed chief medical officer
Dame Sally Davies has been appointed as chief medical officer for England, the first woman to hold the post.
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Lansley fights back on competition
Andrew Lansley has replied to shadow health secretary John Healey attacking Labour’s record on competition and saying amendments to his bill would be tabled to make clear that there will be no price competition.
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West Midlands PCTs underperforming on cancer referral times
PERFORMANCE: Eleven primary care trusts in the West Midlands are underperforming on cancer referral time targets.
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Public health 'confusion' for GPs
There is an “urgent need” to clarify the relationship between commissioning consortia and public health structures, according to experts.
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Confed warns over EU purchase rule change
Proposals to scrap the barrier protecting health services from European procurement rules could place a “significant administrative burden” on NHS organisations, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Half of PCTs employing temporary executives
Almost half of primary care trusts have executive directors working in an “interim” or “acting” capacity, an HSJ investigation has revealed.
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More PCT and SHA managers take sick leave
Sickness absence is accelerating among managers in soon-to-be abolished organisations, an HSJ analysis has revealed.
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Regulating managers will not resolve the issues they face
Is the regulation of health service managers a good idea? The man who watches the watchers - Harry Cayton, chief executive of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence - does not think so.
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MPs could teach GPs a lesson in prudence
“It sounds like an MPs’ expenses type thing and that’s what we’ve got to avoid.” The words of Clare Gerada, Royal College of GPs chair, may prove to be prophetic.
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'Stark' differences in capital's chlamydia screening effectiveness
PERFORMANCE: An NHS London report has highlighted “stark” differences in the effectiveness of chlamydia screening programmes across its primary care trusts.
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Foundation blames PCT in payment dispute
FINANCE: A foundation trust that received an £18m loan from the Department of Health is now embroiled in a dispute over the “failure” of commissioners to manage demand.
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PCTs will decide 'never event' fines for providers
Primary care trusts have been given freedom to set the level of financial penalty imposed on providers for serious failings “that should never happen”.
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Tariff weighting could 'reduce' trust mergers - King's Fund
Paying a higher tariff rate to trusts with larger capital costs could reduce the need for hospital reconfigurations, a report from the King’s Fund has claimed.