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Delayed transfers of care rates four-times higher than targets, NHS Barking & Dagenham reports
PERFORMANCE: The east London primary care trust has seen DTOCs of between 3.5 and five per cent, against its target of one per cent.
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Scottish health boards allocated £11.4bn
Health boards in Scotland have been allocated their share of £11.4bn announced earlier as part of the Scottish budget.
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Call for 'drunk' patients to pay for treatment
Patients who have had too much alcohol should pay for the treatment they receive at accident and emergency units, a patients’ association said today.
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Lansley: Competition will protect commissioners from 'abusive relationships'
Andrew Lansley has defended the competition agenda set out in the Health Bill during the committee stage its passage through Parliament.
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A&E waiting times worst since 2004
Accident and emergency waiting times in England are at their worst since September 2004, according to data from the Department of Health.
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New chief executive for integrated care organisation
A new chief executive has been announced for a London integrated care organisation.
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NHS Direct offers services to GPs
NHS Direct could start booking GP appointments after starting talks with Surrey based consortium EsyDoc.
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Bedfordshire PCT approves new mental inpatient plans
STRUCTURE: Bedfordshire PCT has approved recommendations on how mental health inpatient services will be run by South Essex Partnership University FT (SEPT).
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Regional inequalities evident at early ages
Stark inequalities in children’s development and overall life expectancy between local authorities are revealed by new data published by the Marmot Review.
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Deficit-stricken NHS Harrow cuts chlamydia screening funding as rates plummet
PERFORMANCE: The north west London primary care trust recorded a screening rate of 8.42 per cent in its most recent performance report.
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Sick leave 'more likely' in junior staff
Lower paid NHS staff and junior workers are more likely to go off sick than senior colleagues, according to a new report.
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Calls to review hospital death guidance
Medical directors in Scotland have been advised to review cases when elderly people die while waiting to be discharged from hospital.
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DH figures showing private sector disadvantage 'almost certainly' wrong - Monitor
Department of Health figures showing NHS providers enjoy a significant advantage over the private sector are “incomplete” and may hide a net disadvantage to the NHS, Monitor has said.
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SHA arbitrates after dispute between trust and NHS Greenwich PCT cluster
FINANCE: A primary care trust has seen the contract value of services with its local acute rise by £10m for the second half of the financial year after arbitration.
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Trusts court GPs ahead of consortia engagement
WORKFORCE: Hospital trusts in London are investing in courting GPs ahead of policy changes which will see consortia take over commissioning NHS services.
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Bed-blocking NHS Sefton patients will get 48 hours to vacate
PERFORMANCE: Bed blocking patients in Sefton who turn down transitional placements will be given 48 hours to make their own arrangements.
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South west London cluster negotiates below-tariff prices for urgent admissions
FINANCE: Commissioners in London plan to shave millions off what they pay for urgent care with a package of measures including locally-negotiated below-tariff prices.
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The Christie could face red rating due to 'flawed' cancer waiting times target
PERFORMANCE: Care services minister Paul Burstow has written to the foundation acknowledging that its difficulties meeting the 62 day cancer treatment waiting times target are due to problems in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network ‘as a whole’.
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Foundation Trust Network to split from Confed
The Foundation Trust Network has decided to split from the NHS Confederation.
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Admissions to Derby Hospitals halved following GP referral drive
PERFORMANCE: Admissions to Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust following GP referrals have reduced by 50 per cent in a week.