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SHAs and trusts lock horns over future shape of workforce
The government’s NHS workforce strategy is sidelining trusts and fuelling rows with strategic health authorities, managers have told HSJ.Health minister Lord Darzi’s next stage review is being criticised for granting SHAs extra workforce planning powers and saying little about non-clinical managers.
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Equal at the end of life
The first national strategy for end of life care is welcome and I am quietly confident we will see improvements.
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Unemployed are told to kick the benefits habit
In a radical move to cut the benefits bill, the government intends to force drug users into treatment and the long-term sick back to work. What will this mean for the health service, asks Charlotte Santry
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Trusts in the dark on their role in medics' regulation
Trusts are still unclear about their role in doctors' revalidation, 10 years after the idea was first mooted.
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Johnson slams PCT over GP access policy
Health secretary Alan Johnson has attacked the 'disgraceful attitude' of primary care trusts that quibble over the terms of his department's flagship policy to extend access to GPs in under-doctored areas.
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Cancelling cleaning contracts 'will be easier'
The government will look at how to make it easier for trusts to terminate contracted-out cleaning services when they are not satisfied with them.
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Patients report striking variation in choice
A Healthcare Commission survey has highlighted wide variations in patient experiences of primary care between different PCT areas.
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Ruling against 'sexist' bonus
Thousands of female NHS staff will be able to lodge claims for extra pay following a Court of Appeal ruling.
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Campaigners urge Johnson to legislate against obesity
Public health bodies are urging the government to back up its rhetoric on obesity with legislation.
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Cynthia Bower's appointment
The news that Cynthia Bower has been appointed as chief executive of the Care Quality Commission provides reassurance that, together with Baroness Young as chair, there will be strong leadership to take the regulatory agenda forward.
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Private patient earnings
In your article 'Survey finds hidden private income', the placing of the paragraph that names Tameside Hospital suggests that the trust would exceed by 89 per cent its current private patient cap in a scenario in which money recouped from private insurers for treating road accident victims was excluded. This ...
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Healthcare 100 challenge
I was interested to read your leader 'Will you be in the Healthcare 100 club?', but disappointed the challenge is only to be in the health organisation 100.
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NHS60 mistaken identity
I read your recent supplement Sixty Years of the NHS and very much enjoyed it, having started at Central Middlesex Hospital in 1955.
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Unemployed told to kick benefits habit
In a radical move to cut the benefits bill, the government intends to force drug users into treatment and the long-term sick back to work. What will this mean for the health service, asks Charlotte Santry
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No prosecutions over Maidstone deaths
No-one will face prosecution over the deaths of 90 patients from C difficile at a Kent trust, it was announced today.Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive said they would take no further action after a review prompted by the critical Healthcare Commission report into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells ...
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People with learning disabilities let down by NHS, inquiry finds
The independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities has published its findings and its recommendations have been welcomed by the NHS Confederation.Healthcare For All says people with learning disabilities have higher levels of unmet need and receive less effective treatment, despite the Disability Discrimination Act and ...
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Wales publishes report on organ donation
The Welsh Assembly's health, well-being and local government committee has published a report on organ donation.
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Welsh trust told to review its performance
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has told Cardiff and Vale trust to undertake reviews of its processes, leadership and governance, as well as its waiting list management.
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Hospital malnutrition doubles in two years
The number of serious incidents related to poor nutritional care of hospital patients has almost doubled, figures show.
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Appeal court ruling on discriminatory pay
Trusts may be forced to compensate thousands of female workers who missed out on pay protection schemes awarded to their male colleagues.