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Warning for 'optimistic' foundations
Foundation trusts could see one of their freedoms curtailed if they continue to make 'overly optimistic' predictions about their performance.
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DoH to push choice policy using payment by results
The government has announced it will begin using payment by results to drive choice.
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Agency docs are 'cheaper than locums'
Agency doctors are up to £4,500 a year cheaper than locums from the NHS's own staffing bank, claims new research.
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CfH pulls paid-for google link
Typing 'where did all the money go' into Google until recently directed users to the website of the Department of Health's IT programme.
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HSJ launches revamped website
HSJ has launched a new-look website featuring extra content and designed to be easier to use.
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A&E 'downgrade' forces trust to trash 10,000 magazines
West Kent primary care trust has had to destroy nearly 10,000 copies of a free patients' magazine because of an embarrassing listings error that has reignited fears over reconfiguration plans.
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Inequality targeted
The most deprived areas of the country are to get help to raise life expectancy and meet 2010 targets to reduce health inequalities with a health inequalities intervention tool.
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Deliver dignity calls
Mental health charities have stepped up calls to scrap mixed-sex wards following a government commitment to treat mental health patients with greater dignity.
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NICE stands firm, but the public must learn to respect rationing
When the High Court upheld NICE guidance on Alzheimer's drugs, it was seen as an endorsement of its fairness and credibility. But unless the public is better informed of resource issues, unrealistic demands for new drugs will continue to be an issue, writes Helen Mooney
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Where NHS finance goes wrong
A new report has called for more "honesty" in financial forecasting in the NHS.Health trust chief executives and finance directors are frightened of publishing bad financial forecasts for fear of losing their jobs, claims the report by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)."Understandably, they may delay bad news for ...
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All Our Yesterdays
August 21, 1936, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital ReviewOn the issue of vagrancy in London: ‘It is highly probable that a large number of vagrants in their wanderings touch London…in a six months period the London Public Assistance Committee has dealings with some 13000 separate individuals who have ...
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Looky likey
Our looky likey this week is suggested by NHS National Workforce Projects web development and new media officer Tim Gough. He writes: 'Has anyone ever spotted the unbelievable lookylikeyness between your columnist Noel Plumridge and Tim Brooke-Taylor? I thought the Goodies were taking over the NHS when I turned to ...
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Weird world health
Is this something that the anti obesity lobby can learn from? The Italian town ofVarallois to pay overweight residents to lose weight; men will receive 50 euros (around£34) for losing 9 pounds in a month, while women will get the same amount for shedding 7 pounds. If they can keep ...
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alcohol
There are more binge drinkers in Yorkshire and the Humber than in any other English region a report has shown.The report has been written by the North West Public Health Observatory as part of a series of Indications of Public Health in the English Regions from the Association of Public ...
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All Our Yesterdays
August 29, 1941, Public Assistance Journal and Health & Hospital Review‘The Ministry of Food have announced that from October 1 liquid milk for use in tea, as well as tea, will be available for groups of industrial, business and clerical workers for consumption during working hours,’ said the Journal this ...
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Weird world health
End Game understands the ability to overcome pain - we once worked with someone who walked around for two weeks with a broken leg and have watched 24 on numerous occasions - but there are limits.However is appears that one can lose a limb and fail to notice. A Japanese ...
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patient website
An independent patient feedback website, has won funding to extend its service to mental health users.Patient Opinion, the social enterprise behind the website www.patientopinion.org.uk, has secured funding to develop its service to cover mental health services in England.Founder of the site Dr Paul Hodgkin said the funding will be used ...
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EU cancer case
The European Commission has been asked to investigate whether a primary care trust can refuse to pay for drugs that are being funding elsewhere.In a case which, if it succeeds, would set a precedent for local PCT decisions on prescribing, Tory MEP Chris Heaton-Harris is calling on the European Commission ...
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Improvements still needed in mental health
Many mental health patients are not getting the support they need, a Healthcare Commission report has revealed.The government watchdog's annual community mental health service users survey shows that, while most patients are happy with standards of care, persistent gaps remain.Half of patients who wanted information about local support groups had ...