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NHS technology uptake ‘slow’
NHS managers are still slow to adopt new technology that can save money.
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MPs to revisit commissioning with inquiry
The Commons health committee is to carry out a follow up inquiry into commissioning, which it hopes will contribute to the white paper reforms.
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CQC lifts restrictions on Mid Staffs
Five of the six licence restrictions placed on Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been lifted by the Care Quality Commission, following an interim report on the trust’s progress against recommendations made in a 2009 report by the Healthcare Commission.
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PCT to cull managers
NHS Leeds is planning to save £5.7m by axing more than 130 managers, the Yorkshire Post has claimed.
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NHS to continue funding homoeopathy
There are no plans to stop funding homeopathy on the NHS despite a critical report from MPs earlier this year, the government has said.
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£50m interim cancer drugs fund announced
Ministers have announced a £50m interim cancer drugs pot before the creation of the fully-fledged fund promised before the election.
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New healthcare director appointed
A university professor who has won awards for his research is to take up a new role as on the board of Nottinghamshire Healthcare, it has been announced.
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Four arm's length bodies being abolished
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, the Appointments Commission, the National Patient Safety Agency and the Alcohol Education Research Council are being abolished, it has been announced.
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White paper: regulation reform to create 'level playing field'
The government has proposed significant changes to health provider regulation, which it says will create a “level playing field” for all providers of NHS care.
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NHS losing millions in pharma cost-sharing schemes
Bureaucracy may be blocking millions of pounds for which the NHS can be reimbursed, according to a survey of 31 health trusts in England.
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Pharma boss takes over foundation trust
A former pharmaceuticals boss has been put in charge of Colchester Hospital University Foundation Trust.
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Ambulance bosses reject 'lazy' staff claims
An ambulance service has distanced itself from comments posted on Facebook by one of its senior employees in which he criticised “lazy” and “unproductive” NHS staff.
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NHS mini-stroke performance 'costs 500 lives a year'
The NHS is failing to act quickly enough when people suffer symptoms of a transient ischemic attack, also known as a mini stroke, costing an estimated 500 lives a year, according to a report.
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Freedom of Information access rules tightened
Organisations failing to respond to freedom of information requests may soon be forced to explain their inaction to Parliament.
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Trust declines to appeal against Rose Gibb payout
No challenge will be made to an Appeal Court ruling awarding more than £190,000 damages to a former Kent NHS Trust chief executive who quit after Britain’s worst hospital infection outbreak, it has been disclosed.
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Health gap between rich and poor widest ever
The gap between the health of the rich and the poor is greater now than at any time since records began, research shows.
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Trust appoints interim chief executive
North Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Foundation Trust will see Karen Jackson take over as its acting chief executive, it has been announced.
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Patient involvement lacking in South West cancer service reconfiguration
Patients and user representatives were not adequately involved in the development of the proposals to centralise upper gastro-intestinal cancer services in the South West peninsula, the independent body on NHS change has found today.
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Nicholson warns of tightening central grip over PCTs and providers
The Department of Health will seek to assert strong financial controls over foundation trusts as well as primary care trusts during the transition period to implement last week’s health white paper.
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PCTs told to hand over resources to GP commissioners
The government has told primary care trusts they will “increasingly” be required to put management resources at the disposal of GP consortia while they are implemented.