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So began the week of blanket coverage of the British Medical Association’s annual whinge-fest conference
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Tariff system will reshape specialist trust landscape
'If the Michael Porter view won converts in this country it would mark a major and highly controversial change in the specialist infrastructure.'
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Media Watch
Everyone was looking the other way on 16 June when the Financial Timesbroke the story that the government was advertising for private sector primary care trust management services.
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Data Briefing: cost benchmarking for foundations
With many foundation trusts having to save 15 per cent over three years, the Foundation Trust Network joined consultant McKinsey to develop a benchmarking tool. This aims to enable trusts to analyse costs at healthcare resource group level.
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Effective health messages
For some people, being classified as ill or disabled is not such a bad thing
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Local authority role will mark out networks as a new voice
It makes more sense for elected representatives to concern themselves with how health services are planned than how they are provided
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Will it be Independence Day 5 July 2008?
You cannot expect to get the politician off your back while keeping the consumer at arm's length
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Michael White on politics
' The DoH is officially saying nothing, but my chums tell me they have no qualms about the quality of the iSoft product'
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Good intentions could be disguising a big, bad threat
It is the much-heralded new model for 21st century healthcare provision, but could confusion over its meaning and the lack of safeguards against manipulation leave social enterprise open to abuse from profit-makers? Helen Mooney finds out
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Surgeons slate target culture
Workforce planning has been plunged into 'disarray' by 'recent government policies' that show an 'arrogant' disregard of the views of consultants, Royal College of Surgeons president Bernard Ribeiro was due to say yesterday.
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Monitor settles payment by results row
A public dispute between the foundation trust and primary care trust in Bournemouth over payments under payment by results has been settled.
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Ombudsman points to failed leadership over complaints
Leadership and management failures are evident in many of the complaints against the NHS handled by the parliamentary ombudsman.
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Health select committee: NHS charges 'a complete mess'
NHS charges are in a 'complete mess', the Commons health select committee warned this week.
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DoH should contract out tariff-setting, says report
The Department of Health should look at 'contracting out' elements of the tariff-setting process, according to a hard-hitting report commissioned by ministers.
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DoH agrees £10m 'top-up' for children's hospitals
The Department of Health has agreed to bail out three children's hospitals to the tune of £10m after the trusts claimed that the specialist payment by results tariff was 'inaccurate'.
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Targets in danger as London PCTs expect to spend a sixth of Choosing Health cash
London primary care trust boards are being forced to slash funding set aside to meet the targets set out in the Choosing Health white paper by more than three-quarters as a result of financial problems in the NHS, HSJcan reveal.
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Trusts' admin bills on the rise, says report
Administrative bills at acute and primary care trusts have risen by £90,000-£190,000 each due to running payment by results, according to a government-commissioned report.