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Patient reported outcome measures raise questions of how need for operations is decided
HSJ’s revelation this week that tens of millions of pounds are being spent on treatments that arguably do not improve patients’ lives serves to focus minds.
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Strategic health authority chiefs bring a new flavour to the NHS
After many months, we once again have a full complement of strategic health authority chief executives, even if one of them has been given the honour of being made temporary flu czar (news, page 7).
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NHS out of pocket as contract ends for cataract treatment centre
The first independent treatment centre to complete a five year contract will have delivered about 20 per cent less work than it was paid for, HSJ can reveal.
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London’s primary care trusts gain world class commissioning back-up
The head of a London-wide organisation has set out how it will help the region lift its world class commissioning scores.
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Former finance director reprimanded for accounting failings
A former primary care trust finance director has been reprimanded by her professional accountancy body after her organisation had to adjust its accounts by £7.1m.
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Channel Islands angry as UK ends 33-year-old health agreement
The UK’s decision to end a 33- year-old reciprocal health agreement with the Channel Islands threw Department of Health officials and ministers into a nine month row, documents obtained by HSJ reveal.
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Funds dry up for anti-bullying training in the NHS
The NHS is struggling to fund anti-bullying training for staff and managers despite evidence of widespread problems, a charity is claiming.
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Responsible officers scheme will increase staffing costs
Plans to create “responsible officers” to liaise between trusts and regulators will increase NHS staffing costs, locum agencies are warning.
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Primary care trusts warned over misuse of end of life care cash
Ministers have called on the Department of Health to make primary care trusts prove they are not spending extra funding for end of life care on other services.
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NHS asset sales are unlikely to meet Treasury expectations
The NHS will struggle to provide the Treasury with its expected windfall from asset sales, Department of Health data shows.
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Imperial College Healthcare pioneers shift in managerial relations
Imperial College Healthcare trust chief executive Steve Smith tells Alastair McLellan how the new academic health science centre allowed a radical cultural shift to clinical leadership
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Baby P review reveals 'systemic failings' in NHS
Trusts have been urged to ensure they are meeting child protection standards in a report revealing “systemic failings” in the NHS’s treatment of Baby Peter.
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Lords vote to allow 'exceptions' to private patient income cap
The House of Lords has voted to allow the government to make “exceptions” to the rule that limits the amount of private work a foundation trust can do.
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Care Quality Commission will 'do a number' on weakest NHS performers
The chair of the Care Quality Commission has pledged to get tough with NHS and social care organisations languishing in the bottom 10 per cent of performance tables.
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NHS nets huge drugs saving
The NHS has saved nearly £400m in the space of a year through more cost effective prescribing.
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Conservatives outline nursing policy for the NHS
Preceptorship schemes for newly qualified nurses could form a central plank of the Conservative Party’s policy on nursing, should it win the next general election, HSJ’s sister publication Nursing Times understands.
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Managers 'regularly ignore frontline staff concerns'
Nearly two-thirds of nurses have raised concerns about patient safety with their employers but more than one in three say no action was taken as a result.
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Lost funds provoke outrage among Christie Hospital staff
Nurses from Manchester’s Christie Hospital joined with patients and MPs last week in a march on Whitehall.
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MPs warn NICE over cancer drug 'inequities'
MPs have attacked as “inequitable and inefficient” the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to allow less cost efficient drugs to be given to people at the end of their lives.
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Swine flu stockpiles could compromise NHS, pharmacists warned
The Department of Health has warned pharmacists not to stockpile swine flu medicines because this could undermine the NHS’s ability to cope with a pandemic.