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Cumbria chief loses £1m pension appeal
A primary care trust chief executive dismissed one month before qualifying for an enhanced pension package worth up to £1m has lost a discrimination case.
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Data shows DH consultancy spending fall
Department of Health spending on management consultants fell by 69 per cent in the first five months of the new government, according to data released under its open government policy.
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Ambulance trusts in talks with NHS Direct over 111 provision
Ambulance trusts are likely to team up with NHS Direct to compete against private providers for NHS 111 urgent care contracts, with representatives from both telling HSJ they have entered discussions.
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Mid Staffs advised to shed some services
A report into the future clinical strategy of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has recommended it should no longer run a number of services.
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Lansley moves to replace Monitor chair
The health secretary will begin recruiting a new chair of Monitor in the next few weeks and make an appointment early next year, HSJ has learned.
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Hint at debt free start for commissioning consortia
A minister and senior Department of Health official both hinted that strategic health authority surpluses will be used to ensure commissioning consortia do not start life saddled with primary care trust debts.
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Commissioning consortia told to buy in admin support
Department of Health commissioning lead Dame Barbara Hakin has said commissioning consortia should outsource many of the responsibilities inherited from primary care trusts.
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'Huge concerns' remain over Mid Staffs care
A campaigner whose mother died at an NHS hospital criticised over disastrous standards of care today told an inquiry she still has “huge concerns” about the treatment of vulnerable patients.
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Hospital cleanliness requires 'radical improvement'
Rapid improvements need to be made in the cleaning of hospital equipment in Scotland, inspectors have said.
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Wasted prescriptions cost £300m
Unused prescription medicines cost the NHS at least £300 million a year, figures show.
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Don't lose sight of productivity during winter, warns Nicholson
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has warned managers they need to “maintain a strong grip” on productivity and performance during the coming winter pressures.
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Royal College of GPs appoints new chief
Neil Hunt has said he is looking forward to leading the senior management team and staff at the Royal College of GPs after being appointed its new chief executive.
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DH to appoint new Monitor chair
The health secretary plans to appoint a new chair to Monitor, the NHS provider regulator, early next year, HSJ has learned.
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Lansley denies reforms have caused PCT 'meltdown'
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has denied primary care trusts are in “meltdown” as a result of his reform plans.
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PCT job losses 'will happen within a year' - Unison
The loss of thousands of jobs through the abolition of primary care trusts will happen within a year, instead of the previously expected two years, union leaders have claimed.
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PCTs need to up game on out of hours coding
Many primary care trusts do not always record whether out of hours patients go on to hospital and need to improve clinical coding in this area, according to a report by the Primary Care Foundation.
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Mid Staffs doctors and nurses 'will not be named'
Doctors and nurses criticised during the public inquiry into disastrous standards of care at Stafford Hospital will not be named, it has been ruled.
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Mid Staffs inquiry hears from Cure the NHS campaigner
A campaigner whose mother died at Stafford Hospital has said the 86 year old once collapsed on a ward after being left without her oxygen supply.
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British Heart Foundation to answer questions in live chat session
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is to answer questions from the public on their health policies and campaigns in a live blog on 24 November.
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Confed and RCGP to set up network for consortia
The NHS Confederation and the Royal College of GPs are to form a joint network to represent commissioning consortia.