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    Trusts must collect patient reported data or face fines

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    Hospital trusts must prepare to ask thousands of patients to fill in questionnaires about their health before surgery - and face fines if not enough do so.

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    Public health: a slim chance of healthier lives

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    The Change4Life initiative to combat child obesity is the latest in a long history of public strategies and, says Niall Dickson, success will rely on it grabbing public imagination

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    Foundation trusts call for private patient income flexibility

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    The Foundation Trust Network has called for a public debate on changing the law to allow foundations to take on more private patient work.

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    DH promises to pay Maidstone legal bill

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has agreed to underwrite the massive legal bill Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust could face if Rose Gibb wins her controversial court case.

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    NHS trusts and commissioners at odds over tariff benefits

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    Hospital trusts and commissioners are disputing the impact of the new payment by results tariff on their income.

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    Scottish NHS boards see below-inflation funding rises

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    NHS boards in Scotland will get an increase of 2.6 per cent in the coming financial year - below the current inflation rate of 3 per cent.

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    NHS medics and managers agree over training gap

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    Managers and clinicians are calling for clinical training programmes to give doctors a better understanding of finance and resource management in the NHS.

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    SHAs push on A&E targets

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    NHS chief executives across the country have been under increasing pressure to meet the four hour accident and emergency waiting time target this winter.

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    Little sympathy for trusts struggling with A&E targets

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    Hospital trusts are expected to inform the regional NHS almost immediately of problems in accident and emergency departments.

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    Acute chiefs' resignations not part of 'massive shakedown' in London

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    The departure of four acute trust chief executives - two of them resignations amid performance concerns - does not amount to a 'massive shakedown' in London, according to NHS London deputy chief executive Anne Rainsberry.

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    Rose Gibb and the £250k question

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    When Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust directors decided to arrange a pay-off for Rose Gibb they did not realise they were walking into a legal minefield. What lessons does the case hold? Alison Moore reports

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    20 trusts set to miss foundation trust deadline

    2009-02-12T01:00:00Z

    More than 20 hospital and mental health trusts have been warned they are entering an ‘end game’ because they will not be ready to become foundation trusts before December 2010.Those unable to meet the government’s deadline face either radical restructuring or becoming part of a ‘shopping list’ for existing foundation ...

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    London hospital fire: 250 evacuated

    2009-02-11T17:45:00Z

    Around 250 patients and staff were evacuated from a London hospital today when a fire started in its basement.Northwick Park Hospital's accident and emergency and maternity services departments were closed after a small fire in an electrical room in the basement. Patients were evacuated to avoid smoke.

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    London will review polyclinics

    2009-02-11T11:33:00Z

    London's primary care trusts are to evaluate the first of their polyclinics to show whether the controversial developments are improving healthcare and access.They have set out their requirements for the external review, which follows cynicism about the model from some GPs.

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    DH extends Atos choose and book contract

    2009-02-11T11:27:00Z

    The Department of Health has signed a two year contract with Atos Healthcare to continue managing the choose and book system.

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    Campaigners attack NHS prescription charge exemptions

    2009-02-11T11:14:00Z

    It is wrong to draw up a list of 'deserving and undeserving' illnesses that entitle some NHS patients to a prescription charge waiver, campaigners have said.

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    Scottish health minister Shona Robison takes on new brief

    2009-02-11T11:05:00Z

    Scottish health minister Shona Robison is to take on responsibility for sport, following a reshuffle of the Scottish parliament.

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    Suspended chief executive in limbo as review drags on

    2009-02-10T11:35:00Z

    A hospital trust that suspended its chief executive in October and began a review into his performance has had to appoint a second interim replacement, as the review overruns by more than two months.John Watkinson was suspended by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust following a critical review of his performance ...

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    Double weak PCT gets new chairman

    2009-02-10T11:35:00Z

    Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust has appointed a new chairman.

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    Modest rise in GP extended hours

    2009-02-10T11:30:00Z

    There has been a modest increase in the number of GP practices offering extended opening hours, monthly figures show.