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Ambulance trust plans lower target for rural call-outs
An ambulance trust is proposing to reach a smaller proportion of life-threatening emergencies within eight minutes in rural areas than in urban.
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NHS trusts may face charges for 'never events'
Politicians have urged health officials to make hospital trusts bear the full cost of so-called 'never events' to help redress the imbalance between weak commissioners and strong providers.
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Monitor attempts to keep DH 'at bay'
Monitor and the Department of Health could be heading for another tussle over central direction versus local freedoms.
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GP pay to reflect outcomes
The GP bonus scheme will be reformed to better link GP earnings to outcomes for patients under proposals outlined by the Department of Health.
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Trusts manipulating pay rules to hang on to talent
Dozens of primary care and ambulance trusts are 'fudging' official rules on directors' pay as they struggle to attract and hold on to good managers.
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HSJ survey shows 'racism alive in NHS'
The bleak plight of black and minority ethnic staff across the NHS has been exposed in an exclusive HSJ analysis of recruitment rates, employment relations and workforce figures.
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DH to enforce proportion of BME managers in the NHS
Managers will be given a target on the proportion of trust board members coming from black and minority ethnic backgrounds under plans being drawn up by the Department of Health.
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NICE may change drug rules for end of life
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence wants to apply different rules when deciding whether to recommend expensive drugs for terminally ill patients with rare conditions.
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Managers warn NHS top-up review risks inequalities
Health managers have given a cautious welcome to cancer czar Mike Richards' landmark review of co-payments but warned that the plans could make the NHS less 'equal'.
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NHS must reflect local populations
NHS bodies are largely representative of the communities they serve but some are drastically failing to reflect local populations, HSJ's figures show.
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MP challenges foundation trust board secrecy
An MP has challenged the tendency of foundation trusts to hold their board meetings in secret and withhold documents from publication.
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NHS Direct drops foundation trust plans
NHS Direct has dropped its plans to become a foundation trust following government reluctance to free the national service from central control.
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Older people's charity calls on services to forge links for elderly
The chair of a new 'super charity' has called on managers to forge closer links with social services to ensure older people stay in hospital for the right length of time.
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Paramedics prepare for terrorism threat
Primary care trusts will for the first time have to fund ambulance services to be prepared for terrorist attacks and other major emergencies from next year.
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Helen Bevan on the six lessons of success
This is my 11th year as a national improvement leader in the NHS. During this time, I have led or supported more than 70 major national improvement initiatives, in priority areas such as quality, emergency care, waiting times, cancer services, leadership and care closer to home. Yet I have never ...
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PCTs outsource provider arms to foundation trust
Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees teaching primary care trusts have outsourced their entire provider arms to a local foundation trust.
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NHS constitution debate
Your leader claims the NHS Confederation and NHS Employers 'appear to' say that the NHS constitution is over-prescriptive. This is a misrepresentation.
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Academic health science centres
Ann McGauran's article on supertrusts describes the development of academic health science centres (exclusively in London) in terms of strategic alliances leading to global competitiveness.
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Mental well-being drive
The report published by think tank Foresight on the need to build mental capital and well-being is essential reading for all policy makers and service providers.