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NewsDavid Nicholson warns SHAs not to be defensive over visits
Strategic health authorities have been warned not to “guard the borders” if they want to get the most out of their assurance process.
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LeaderNHS cuts will be chance for staff to be new radicals
Existing NHS systems will not cope with the financial crisis enveloping the public sector.
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NewsTreasury U-turn on PFI takes pressure off DH capital budget
A Treasury U-turn over accounting rules for hospitals built under the private finance initiative has given the Department of Health’s capital budget a reprieve.
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NewsFew women doctors have board-level responsibilities, says RCP
Few women doctors have management responsibility at board level, a Royal College of Physicians investigation has found.
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NewsChief was 'misled' over A&E before quitting West Middlesex Hospital trust
A hospital chief executive was “misled” about pressure on its accident and emergency department, which led to her resignation, an internal report has revealed.
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NewsCQC to name trusts with highest death rates
Trusts with unusually high mortality rates that have sparked inspections will be named for the first time, plans revealed to HSJ show.
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NewsA decade of the national clinical directors - aka the czars
The NHS’s czars, or national clinical directors, have been hailed as a success.
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NewsTrusts told to 'keep slogging' at infection control
Trusts are being urged to step up the “hard slog” of reducing infections by improving their assurance processes.
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NewsYorkshire and Humber commissioners accused of grilling gender change patients
Gender equality campaigners have accused Yorkshire and the Humber commissioners of breaching the Human Rights Act in its treatment of patients with gender dysphoria.
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NewsTories would get tougher on public health realities
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said a Conservative government would ask the public to take more responsibility for the lifestyle choices that create unsustainable demands on the NHS.
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NewsConfed urges trusts to open up to avoid FOI deluge
NHS organisations are being urged to become more transparent in light of a steep increase in requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
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NewsPCTs leave public on the policy sidelines
Primary care trusts are failing to put patients and the public at the centre of the very strategies designed to engage them.
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NewsTrusts with high death rates to be named
Trusts with unusually high mortality rates that have sparked inspections will be named for the first time, plans revealed to HSJ show.
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NewsGraham Ramsay named Mid Essex trust's chief executive
West Hertfordshire Hospitals trust deputy chief executive Graham Ramsay is to leave to head up Mid Essex Hospital Services trust.
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NewsBirmingham mental health trust appoints medical director
Birmingham and Solihull mental health foundation trust has appointed a new medical director.
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NewsWhistleblowing doctors in the dark over safety fears, says BMA
Nearly half of hospital doctors who reported a patient safety, malpractice or bullying concern to trust managers were left in the dark about whether anything had happened as a result, a British Medical Association survey has found.
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NewsLawyer reprimanded over spat with foundation trust
A lawyer has been reprimanded for bringing his profession into disrepute in a dispute with a foundation trust in the North West.
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NewsUnite campaigns against community service reforms
Trade union Unite has launched a campaign against Department of Health plans to separate primary care trust provider arms from commissioning PCTs.
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NewsNHS South Central sets aside £400,000 for fluoridation review
South Central strategic health authority has set aside £400,000 to cover the costs of a likely judicial review following its board’s decision in February to add fluoride to water supplies in parts of the region.
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NewsSouthampton University Hospitals trust names medical director
Southampton University Hospitals trust has appointed paediatric consultant Michael Marsh as its medical director.