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NewsTest doctors' skills more often, Andy Burnham urges
Doctors’ skills should be checked as often as airline pilots’ to ensure they can perform under pressure as well as Captain Chesley Sullenberger, health secretary Andy Burnham said today.
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NewsEssex PCT to begin offloading GP surgeries
NHS South West Essex is seeking alternative providers to take over and run some of its general practices.
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NewsHealth Foundation announces quality improvement scheme
The Health Foundation is offering 18 funded places on a new quality improvement leadership scheme.
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NewsTrust reviews data security measures after laptop theft
The theft of a laptop computer containing the records of 33,000 patients has led Southampton University Hospitals Trust to review data security procedures.
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NewsCall to scrap compulsory retirement age
People should be allowed to work longer and everyone should have the right to ask for flexible working arrangements, the government has been told.
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NewsDarling signals pay restraint for top NHS managers
Chancellor Alistair Darling has signalled that generous pay and bonus packages for top public sector posts will have to be reduced to preserve jobs.
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NewsDH names older people's and dementia tsars
Professor Alistair Burns and Professor David Oliver have been appointed to new directorships in the Department of Health, it has been announced.
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NewsPeterborough PCT chief steps down as deficits pile high
The chief executive of NHS Peterborough has resigned, admitting she “cannot shirk responsibility” for its growing deficit.
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NewsPolice probes deaths at mental health trust as chief exec announces departure
Police have launched an investigation into the deaths of four patients who were under the care of a Sussex mental health trust.
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NewsPCT benefits from ambitious knowledge and skills framework redesign
A Yorkshire primary care trust has successfully transformed the knowledge and skills framework into a tool to aid workforce planning and boost productivity.
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NewsAdvisory panel for BME cancer patients
Black and minority ethnic cancer patients are to be given a greater voice through a new advisory panel.
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NewsTough new standards for STI clinics
Tough new standards have been announced for sexual health services across the UK.
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NewsDavid Nicholson predicts tough NHS pay negotiations
Workers in parts of the NHS can expect pay rises below 1 per cent in coming years, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has indicated.
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NewsKing's Fund highlights risks of quality reporting
A King’s Fund report published today has highlighted the benefits of measuring and reporting on quality of care, but also the significant risks.
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NewsTory reform 'won't be derailed by debt worries'
Financial constraints will not force an incoming Conservative government to ditch the wide-ranging programme of reform the party has drawn up, policy supremo Oliver Letwin has said.
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NewsManager wins compensation after 'wrong colour' dismissal
North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has said it has “learned many lessons” after it was ordered to pay £115,000 to a nursing chief who was told she was from the “wrong colour and culture”.
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NewsMPs told to ‘free’ PCTs of acute commissioning
Primary care trusts should be “released” from commissioning acute care and left to concentrate on improving primary and community services, MPs have been told.
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NewsRise in acute admissions will be ‘unsustainable’ for PCTs
Just 10 per cent of primary care trusts have successfully reduced emergency admissions to their local acute trusts.
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NewsElder care pilot slashes hospital admissions
A pilot programme for improving care of older patients has slashed hospital overnight stays and accident and emergency attendances, and produced significant financial savings.
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NewsEast Midlands Ambulance Service Trust given clean bill of health
East Midlands Ambulance Service Trust has been given a clean bill of health after a repeat hygiene inspection by the Care Quality Commission.