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Fair trading complaint raises healthcare competition warning
Lax regulation is keeping new private and NHS entrants out of the healthcare market, reports Edward Davie
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HSJ Finance: helping you achieve NHS efficiency
This week HSJ introduces a new section in the magazine. HSJ Finance has two goals: to explore how increasing financial pressures are impacting on the NHS, and to plot the developing relationship between the service and the private sector.
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PCTs differ widely over antibiotics prescription
There are wide disparities in antibacterial drugs prescribing by primary care trust area, figures shared exclusively with HSJ reveal.
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NHS London makes appointment to first set of merged PCTs
NHS London has finalised the new management structure for the first of its merged primary care trusts.
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Bad referrals waste district nurses’ time
Every mismanaged referral to a district nurse wastes five hours of their time, research by the provider arm for three London primary care trusts has found.
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Single rooms no better say economists
Giving patients their own hospital room does not improve infection rates or lengths of stay and increases the likelihood of falls, unpublished research for the Department of Health shows.
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Late payment rules eased
The European parliament has voted to soften the EU late payment directive, which could have led to over £100m in fines for NHS organisations.
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Improvement Foundation's former staff lose NHS screening contract
The NHS cancer screening programme has pulled out of a deal with former staff of the Improvement Foundation amid concerns about how much money the failed company still owes primary care trusts.
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Budget increase will not be passed down to services, says King's Fund
The real terms increase in health funding will be “swallowed up” by rising costs in the NHS, John Appleby has warned in response to the spending review.
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Nicholson explains spending review settlement
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has written to NHS managers to explain the spending review settlement allocated by the treasury.
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Chancellor issues jobs and pensions threat
Chancellor George Osborne has announced spending plans that will force public sector staff to pay £1.8bn a year more towards their pensions and lead to 490,000 job losses.
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Government drops one-on-one cancer nurse plan
Plans made under Labour to improve cancer services and provide free prescriptions for people with long term conditions have been abandoned by the government, it has confirmed.
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NHS capital spending to fall by 17 per cent
NHS capital spending will fall by 17 per cent in real terms between 2010-11 and 2014-15, the chancellor said today.
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Treasury raids NHS capital budget to fund social care
£1bn of NHS funding will be transferred to social care by 2014-15 the chancellor said today, starting with £800m next financial year.
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Minimal funding increase for NHS in spending review
NHS funding will increase by just 0.1 per cent above inflation from next year onwards, the chancellor has confirmed - the minimum required to meet the government’s “real terms increase” pledge.
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Risk management will be flash point for PCTs and GP consortia
The management of risk will be the main area of tension between fledging GP consortia and primary care trusts over the coming months, a report on the lessons learnt from practice based commissioning suggests.
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Britnell sets up commissioning academy with NAPC
A GP commissioning “academy” has been launched by the National Association of Primary Care, in partnership with consultants KPMG.
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We need NHS managers to tackle the first financial crisis since 1987
Today the government’s spending review will be announced and the implications for the NHS will start to become clear.
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Confed responds to spending review
The spending review settlement is “as good as the NHS could have hoped for”, according to the NHS Confederation.