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HSJ Live 23.07.2014: NHS leaders must be more confident in tackling waiting lists
Ian Gillespie on waiting lists, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Health spending sees sharpest rise in current parliament
Department of Health spending rose by 2.6 per cent in real terms last year – by far the greatest annual rise in health spending of the current parliament
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Local education and training posts at risk in HEE's cost cutting review
Education and training posts across the country could be axed as part of the second phase of Health Education England’s cost cutting reorganisation.
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Doctors urged to opt out of working week directive
The Department of Health has pledged to find ways to help more doctors opt out of the European working time directive, which the authority admits has led to rigid shift patterns and had a detrimental effect on training.
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Drop in bans on hospital and care home workers
The Labour Party has voiced concern about a sharp drop in the numbers of people being barred from working with vulnerable adults in care homes and hospitals.
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HSJ Local
Trust to open bullying helpine for staff
WORKFORCE: An acute trust plans to open a 24-hour helpline for its staff after almost 30 per cent reported being bullied by colleagues and managers.
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Unions ballot members for strike action over NHS pay
Three health unions have announced they are going to ballot their members for strike action over NHS pay.
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Healthwatch warns of the rise of 'super CCGs'
The health secretary has been urged to rethink legal reforms that would ease the creation of allegedly unaccountable “super clinical commissioning groups”.
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HSJ Local
Lincolnshire community trust appoints chief
Lincolnshire Community Health Services Trust has appointed Andrew Morgan as its chief executive.
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Healthwatch needs to punch its weight
Its local organisations are yet to establish credibility
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HSJ Local
Cancer centre given the go-ahead
STRUCTURE: A new cancer centre to be built at Barts Health Trust has been given the green light by London planning officials.
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HSJ Local
£30m pathology contract won by Hillingdon
FINANCE: Hillingdon Hospitals Foundation trust has won a £30m five-year contract to provide pathology services for patients in Ealing.
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HSJ Live 22.07.2014: MPs debate Manchester reconfiguration
Healthier Together programme debated in Parliament, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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Agency costs jump £300m at foundation trusts
FTs saw the cost of agency and contract staff shoot up by £300m last year, according to their annual accounts
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HSJ Local
Cash strapped CCG proposes major restrictions to fertility services
FINANCE: A cash strapped clinical commissioning group has proposed significantly restricting access to fertility services to help halt its fall even further into the red.
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HSJ Local
Competition watchdog probes Essex pathology joint venture
COMMERCIAL: The competition watchdog is probing a pathology joint venture between two Essex foundation trusts and a private company.
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Council warned to end legal battle over North Yorkshire maternity reconfiguration
QC advises Richmondshire to drop judicial review
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Complaints against doctors double
The rise in the use of social media has contributed to a doubling of complaints against doctors in five years, it has been reported.
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HSJ Local
Trust in lock-out dispute faces legal action
Trade union Unite has pledge to take legal action against Northampton General Hospital Trust after it locked out pathology staff following a contract dispute.
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Friends and family test changes announced
NHS England is to change how the friends and family test is implemented and presented after a major review concluded it cannot be used as a “single measure” for the quality of care across the health service as originally intended.