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CQC registration ‘fraught with risk’
Plans for charging NHS organisations to register with the Care Quality Commission are “fraught with potential risks” and should be postponed for at least a year, the NHS Confederation is urging.
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SHAs return to topslicing budgets
Strategic health authorities are introducing stringent financial rules and mandatory topslicing in a bid to keep the NHS in balance next financial year.
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QIPP leads reveal hit list
Slashing follow-up appointments after surgery and spending on drugs will be two of the controversial areas targeted first by the national quality and productivity leads.
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Bill Moyes calls for DH unit to tackle ‘lethargic’ non-FTs
The outgoing executive chair of Monitor spent his last days in post urging the Department of Health to establish a new body to tackle “lethargic” trusts that have still not applied for foundation status.
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Mental health chief says departure not linked to trust deaths
A departing chief executive has insisted her move is unrelated to a police investigation into four apparent suicides at the mental health trust she has run for nine years.
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‘Fast track’ healthcare for NHS staff
NHS staff should be fast-tracked into services such as physiotherapy and mental health treatment, according to national director for health and work Dame Carol Black.
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Urgent care: confusing jargon – we’ve got your number
The NHS is constructing its own tower of Babel.
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Regulation must boost NHS managers’ reputation, not voters’ blood lust
Plans to regulate NHS managers are gathering pace. This creates both risks and opportunities.
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NHS IT programme: patient record options urged
The national programme for IT must urgently support short term alternatives to its main hospital patient record products. Otherwise, it will put at risk NHS efforts to save money while protecting patients, the former interim Department of Health chief information officer has said.
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Pilots scheduled for 111 urgent care calls
The three digit urgent care number will help commissioners direct patients to the cheapest available service for their need, according to NHS Connecting for Health.
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SHA steps in to GP branch row
NHS London has been criticised for delaying the opening of a branch surgery in Kingston, despite the cooperation and competition panel having already recommended its go-ahead.
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NHS Cumbria reveals flood expenditure
NHS Cumbria has estimated the bill for maintaining flood-ravaged health services in the region could reach almost £7m - before any permanent health facilities are built to replace those lost.
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Lib Dems call for tightening of foreign GP law
The Liberal Democrats launched new proposals today to tighten rules on employing foreign doctors after the death of a 70 year old man treated by a doctor from Germany.
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Public health directors push for alcohol minimum pricing
Public health directors have made a minimum price on alcohol their top priority ahead of the general election.
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Bill Moyes takes pride in rocking the foundations
Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes leaves the foundation trust regulator this week with no regrets about his stormy journey, as he tells Sally Gainsbury in his final interview
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Cancer cost saving
The NHS should save money by decommissioning cancer services for which there is no significant benefit, such as routine follow-up for breast cancer patients, according to King’s Health Partners Integrated Cancer Centre director Arnie Purushotham.
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NICE guidance calls for clot risk checks
All patients admitted to hospital should be assessed for the risk of developing blood clots and then given preventive treatment, according to new NICE guidance on the prevention of venous thromboembolism.
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Trust failings allowed nurse to kill, says report
A series of failings at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in West Yorkshire allowed former nurse Colin Norris to kill four elderly patients, an independent inquiry has found.
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Provider arms given timetable to vertically integrate
Most primary care trust provider arms will be expected to integrate with acute or mental health trusts by the end of March 2011, HSJ has learned.
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Foundation seeks pay rise below Agenda for Change rate
The only foundation trust outside the national pay framework has made its first real attempt to break away from national pay rates.