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Call for NHS input into new assessments
The Audit Commission has called on the NHS to help shape the way. it carries out comprehensive. area assessments, which are set to replace comprehensive performance assessment for local government from 2009.
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MPs call for PFI training
Staff who renegotiate the refinancing of private finance initiatives often 'lack commercial awareness' and must receive training, a Commons committee has found.
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Trusts urged to tackle patient dignity issues
The Healthcare Commission has called on the NHS to look again at how it respects patient dignity, in relation to hospital food, help with eating and mixed-sex wards.
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NICE hits out at 'flawed and inaccurate' cancer care report
An international report that claims the UK has among the worst access to cancer drugs is 'flawed' and 'inaccurate', the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said.
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BMA hits out over diverted education cash
Money given to acute trusts to fund medical education must be ringfenced, the British Medical Association has said.
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Report calls for royal pharmaceutical college
Pharmacists should get their own royal college to unite the profession and give it a stronger voice, the government has concluded.
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Pressure group celebrates MTAS legal ruling
Pressure group Remedy UK is claiming a 'mild victory' following a judicial review into the medical training and application system.
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Foundation trusts generate £130m surplus
Foundation trusts generated a £130m net surplus for the last financial year although three were shown to be in deficit, according to figures released yesterday.
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Information Centre prepares to expand role
The role of the Information Centre for health and social care in the NHS is set to be stepped up, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has revealed.
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South Staffs adds to foundation acquisitions
A mental health trust has become the second foundation trust to use its independent powers to take over provider services from another NHS organisation.
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Trust offers 6,000 staff voluntary redundancy
Wage slips received last week by almost 6,000 staff at County Durham and Darlington foundation trust also included a letter offering them voluntary severance deals.
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Board papers reveal limited local power on IT priorities
Strategic health authorities will only have limited powers to set local IT priorities, board papers suggest.
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Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality
Primary care trusts are not taking sufficient account of gender when they plan services to meet new laws, a report commissioned by the Department of Health has found.
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Workforce chief to tackle past failures
Many of the NHS's biggest personnel problems should have been tackled years ago, the Department of Health head of workforce has admitted.
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Scottish government reverses A&E closures
Two Scottish health boards have been given until the end of the year to come up with revised proposals after the new Scottish National Party government overturned decisions to close accident and emergency departments.
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Call for single sex, drugs and alcohol plan
The government needs a national, cross-departmental strategy to tackle drugs, alcohol and risky sexual behaviour among young people, according to the independent advisory group on sexual health and HIV.
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Black marks against Brown in HSJ survey
Fewer than one in three health managers and clinicians believe the NHS is safe in Gordon Brown's hands, according to an HSJ survey.
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Porritt berates NHS over slow progress on sustainable future
The NHS is moving at an 'incredibly sluggish and inadequate pace' to becoming sustainable and environmentally sound, green campaigner Jonathan Porritt has warned.
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Junior doctor campaigners in favour of union to rival BMA
Junior doctors campaign group Remedy UK is considering whether to start its own union to rival the British Medical Association.
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Walker claims admissions of failure show assessment works
Admissions by trusts that they are not meeting core safety, hygiene, training and equality standards show self-assessment works, Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker has said.