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Hospitals slam water firms over flood response failure
NHS managers affected by last year's floods have accused their water supplier of an 'inadequate' and 'unco-ordinated' response to the emergency.
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BMA presses Hart over primary care funding
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has been urged to ensure primary care is protected as the structure of the NHS in the country is reformed.
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Medics may lose out on job agency rights
Civil servants are trying to amend a legal 'technicality' that grants junior doctors the same rights as employment agency workers.
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Hospitals hold back choose and book slots
A senior Department of Health official has criticised 'significant numbers' of hospital trusts for holding appointments back from the choose and book system.
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Coding errors distort bills for PCTs
Up to £1bn of the bills hospital trusts sent primary care trusts last year could be wrong, tests by the Audit Commission have suggested.
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Probe calls for tariff for fertility services
A Department of Health group probing inequalities in IVF provision is demanding a national tariff for fertility services.
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Monitor rejection highlights areas for improvement
While Monitor did turn down our foundation trust application, this should not detract from the fact that we are already one of the best-performing mental health trusts in the country. We hold 'excellent' and 'good' Healthcare Commission ratings and have a track record of delivery against our targets.
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Drug treatment link to benefits is concerning
Bravo, Paul Hayes, for declaring the direct interest of the National Treatment Agency in the green paper on welfare 'reform'.
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NHS organisations should be interested in social care
I was surprised that the interview with Care Quality Commission chair Baroness Young made no mention of the commission's responsibilities for regulating and inspecting social care provision, including residential homes and home care services. Given the importance of joint working and commissioning between health and social care services, NHS organisations ...
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Hospitals slam water firms over flood response
NHS managers affected by last year's floods have accused their water supplier of an 'inadequate' and 'uncoordinated' response to the emergency.
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Huge contrasts found between UK nations
Patients in the UK’s four nations have dramatically different experiences of the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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Dragons' Den inspires trusts
I read with interest the item 'PCT 'dragons' hunt fresh ideas'. Last autumn in South West Essex primary care trust provider services, we launched a 'new innovations initiative' which was based on the TV series Dragons' Den. We established our initiative to help with developing a culture of innovation across ...
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Innovative commissioning leads to cost savings
It is not just surgery where the NHS must speed up its innovation. Imaginative approaches to commissioning exist and early indications from Northern Ireland suggest significant cost savings are available to those prepared to embrace them.
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Surrey is first to agree its integrated care proposals
The first primary care trust to unveil its plans for an integrated care pilot has warned that commissioners will have to overcome existing 'anomalies' to make the initiative work.
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Entrepreneurial GPs are due respect
Sophia Christie's allegations that GPs are 'venal' and 'breathtakingly callous' are unfair. I am a GP of 26 years' standing. I am vice chair of our (large) local medical committee and a board member of our practice based commissioning consortium. I have spent considerable time recently, with a great deal ...
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Entrepreneurial GPs deserve respect
Sophia Christie's allegations that GPs are 'venal' and 'breathtakingly callous' are unfair.
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Conservatives unveil public health proposals
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has outlined the Conservatives' new policy proposals on public health.They include separate and effectively ringfenced public health budgets and an independent secretary of state for public health.
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NICE gives go-ahead for Lucentis
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said primary care trusts should fund the use of ranibizumab - commonly known as Lucentis - for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration if certain conditions apply.
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London Assembly to probe underage drinking
The London Assembly has launched an investigation to find the true extent of underage drinking and alcohol misuse in the capital and to help find the best ways to tackle the problem.
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Elderly 'going hungry' on wards
Many hospitals are still not doing enough to prevent older people from going hungry on hospital wards, according to Age Concern.Following monitoring undertaken as part of the Hungry to be Heard campaign, the charity claims 43 per cent of NHS trusts have still not introduced protected meal times.