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Protest delays Stafford Hospital public inquiry
The start of a public inquiry into major failings at a trust has been delayed when an angry relative staged a protest.
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Government backtracks to hand maternity to GPs
The government is preparing to perform a U-turn on its decision to plan and fund maternity nationally and instead hand responsibility to GPs, HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has learned.
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Stafford Hospital public inquiry to begin
A public inquiry will begin today into failings at an NHS hospital criticised for routinely neglecting patients and providing appalling standards of care.
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Strategic NHS planning 'may follow SHAs into oblivion'
A lack of strategic health planning will follow the demise of strategic health authorities and primary care trusts, senior NHS figures have warned.
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Labour challenges NHS funding claim
Labour has challenged the government’s claim to have protected spending on the NHS, claiming that when the cost of social care is taken into account the health service is in fact facing a £500m real-terms cut in funding.
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Most councils 'expect social care service cuts'
More than half of local authorities in England fear budget pressures will affect care services that help elderly people and adults with disabilities to live at home, according to a new survey.
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Budget squeeze 'putting NHS under severe pressure'
The NHS is under “severe pressure” because of staff shortages, recruitment freezes and redundancies, the largest public sector union has warned.
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Endoscope 'disinfection failure' linked to nine NDM cases in UK
Nine people were infected with bacteria carrying the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) enzyme after “disinfection failure” with a single endoscope camera at a UK hospital, a document obtained by Nursing Times reveals.
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A&E closure plan accelerated by six months
One of the first reconfigurations to be approved under health secretary Andrew Lansley’s criteria is to go ahead earlier than expected because of safety concerns.
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Lansley details social care funding plans
The NHS will be forced to give councils the majority of the £1bn additional annual funding it was directed to spend on social care in the spending review, health secretary Andrew Lansley has revealed.
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Social care funding commission 'not set on insurance model'
Prof Andrew Dilnot has insisted his government commission is not wedded to insurance as the solution to the care funding crisis.
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Trust loses cancer screening service over biopsy failings
The breast screening service in north Cumbria is to be restructured after an investigation concluded it failed to carry out needle biopsies in enough cases, leading to delays in diagnosing 16 patients.
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MPs to investigate NHS complaints and legal costs
The Commons health committee is to investigate rising complaints against the NHS and how much it is costing the service in litigation.
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New Birmingham hospital clears further hurdle and gains name
Plans to build a “super hospital” in Birmingham have been given the go ahead by NHS West Midlands but with 60 fewer beds than originally intended.
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Report criticises junior doctors' workload
Patients are being placed at “unnecessary risk” because junior doctors are told to work beyond their competence, a report said today.
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MSPs split on waiting time law
MSPs on a Holyrood committee have revealed that it is split on whether new laws should be brought in giving NHS patients a legal waiting time guarantee.
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Report highlights out-of-date keyhole equipment
More than one in four hospitals performing keyhole surgery are using out-of-date and potentially unsafe equipment, according to a new report.
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Organ transplants hit record high
A record number of organ transplants were carried out in the UK last year, figures show.
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Councils and NHS 'must cooperate on social care'
The health service and local government must work as partners on social care in the face of a spending squeeze, the NHS Confederation has said.
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Kent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend
A primary care trust in Kent has become the latest to announce it is reducing funding for IVF and low priority procedures this year in order to tackle rising acute activity, which risks a £40m overspend.