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Hold-up: Treasury eyes NHS surplus
The Treasury is in talks with the Department of Health over the NHS's £1.7bn surplus and when the service will be able to spend it.
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NHS trusts dump Capita over payroll errors
Five NHS organisations with more than 16,000 staff have ended a payroll contract with Capita after a catalogue of errors. The contract had been due to run to 2010 but was terminated last week after just 18 months.
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Annual health check note
Your report on the annual health check missed one vital fact: this is the second year running that NHS mental health trusts have been rated as one of the best-performing parts of the service.
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Why should NHS managers reapply for their posts?
I was close to apoplexy when I heard about Liberal Democrat deputy leader Vince Cable's suggestion that directors reapply for their own posts and take a pay and conditions cut in the process.
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Commissioning and decommissioning
It was with incredulity and then growing anger that I read the recent news item on commissioning.
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Reported maternity incidents
It would be a grave error to assume that an increase in reported maternity incident numbers - widely covered in the media last week - is a result of increasing error rates in maternity services.
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GPs are carers not killers
I did not recognise my city, Brighton and Hove, from the quotes in the news story 'Killer conditions go unseen by GPs'.
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Patient choice at risk from healthcare monopolies
Primary care trusts may need to find new methods of protecting patient choice if integrated care organisations become monopoly healthcare providers.
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Hygiene problems will be no bar to registration with Care Quality Commission
Trusts will be allowed to register with the Care Quality Commission even if poor hygiene is putting patients at 'significant risk'.
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Social care system ignores needs - Commission for Social Care Inspection
The system for means testing and rationing council social care services means the needs of many people are ignored and they are not given advice about the best care available to them, a report from the Commission for Social Care Inspection says today.
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Pilot scheme for older people reduces hospital admissions
A pilot scheme to co-ordinate health, social care and housing support for older people has saved the NHS 73 pence for every £1 spent, due to avoided emergency hospital admissions, the Department of Health has claimed.
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Scotland moves to stop GP 'commercialisation'
The Scottish government is today launching a consultation on the eligibility criteria for providers of GP services in a bid to stop the 'commercialisation' of GP practices.
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Prioritise mental health during economic downturn, report urges
The UK must give more priority to protecting people's mental health, especially amid the anticipated economic turmoil and uncertainties, a report by the Foresight group says today.
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Pay dispute threatens speech therapists' morale, union claims
Dissatisfaction at the government's three-year pay deal, which adds up to an annual pay increase of 2.7 per cent - just under half the rate of inflation, is creating a 'crisis' of stress and low morale among speech and language therapists, their union has claimed.
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Patients get right to self-refer to physiotherapists
Patients will be able to self-refer to allied health professionals such as physiotherapists, speech therapists, dieticians and podiatrists, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.The British Medical Association warned that although the move could improve access it could lead to services being overstretched.
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Individual budgets improve patient care, says report
An evaluation of individual budget pilots has found individual budgets can give people more control over their personal care and improve their quality of life.
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New way of learning could improve child safety
A 'systems approach' to learning from serious case reviews could help identify what leads to good or poor practice in safeguarding children, according to a report by the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
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Wales launches diabetes management guidelines
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has launched guidelines for managing adults with diabetes in Wales.
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Chief medical officer to chair public health board
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson is to chair the North East Public Health Board.