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Staffordshire ambulance safety warning
Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust took risks with the safety of patients, staff and volunteers, the Healthcare Commission has found.In an investigation covering April 2004 to June 2007, the commission found problems relating to the poor management of controlled drugs, emergency ambulance volunteers and its out-of-hours GP service.
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Staff survey shows low opinion of senior management
Trusts have been urged to address a ‘breakdown’ in the relationship between senior managers and staff, following the results of the fifth annual NHS staff survey.It is the first time the Healthcare Commission’s survey of every trust in England has asked specific questions about senior management.
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QOF harms inequality progress
The freedom of GPs to 'exception report' patients may be undermining efforts to reduce health inequalities, experts have told the Commons health select committee.
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On the minimum practice income guarantee
The minimum practice income guarantee was agreed because without this supplement the majority of the practices would have earned less from the new contract than the old one, writes Abdul Ghafoor
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New unit set up as trusts miss green targets
Four out of 10 NHS managers have not yet begun to develop plans to reduce carbon emissions in the health service, despite green targets set by the Department of Health.
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Swindells to go private with Tribal
The Department of Health's interim chief information officer Matthew Swindells is to leave the department and the NHS for the private consultancy Tribal.
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Freedom of information rules
Many public authorities find that freedom of information requests sometimes raise complex questions that can be hard to get right, writes Maurice Frankel
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Local targets are the way to fight inequality, MPs told
Performance against national inequality targets may tell us little about how successful primary care trusts are in dealing with local challenges, the NHS Confederation has warned MPs.
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Party politics do not explain the facts
In Michael White's column, the exchange between Conservative MP James Gray and health minister Ben Bradshaw was focused on the political context of changes to health services in Chippenham, writes Jeff James
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HIV exemptions
In your article Medecins sans frontieres?, you suggested HIV is a notifiable disease, when it isn't, and implied that HIV treatment is exempt from charging, but it is not, writes Vicky Field
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Gibb sues former employer
Rose Gibb, the former chief executive who received a £75,000 pay-off after presiding over a fatal infection outbreak, was prepared to 'stay and face the music', according to her trade union. She is suing her former employer for a further £175,000 plus interest, claiming she was forced to leave.
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DH poaches GP guarantee payments to fund pay rise
The Department of Health has begun its clawback of the controversial minimum practice income guarantee by accepting a pay recommendation for GPs that would give practices an average net increase of 0.2 per cent.The move came as other NHS staff groups were offered a three-year pay deal worth 2.75 per ...
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DH slated over freedom of information record
The Department of Health has been lambasted for the way it handles requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Wiltshire scrutiny committee
Michael White's representation of the Wiltshire health overview and scrutiny committee is inaccurate and misleading, writes Roy While
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New release date for commissioning review
The long-awaited value for money assessment of the framework for procuring external support for commissioners will now be completed next spring, the Treasury has revealed.
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Patient safety tops list of complaints to Healthcare Commission
Patient safety has emerged as the biggest area of concern in complaints that are handled by the Healthcare Commission.
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Trusts come together but deny merger speculation
Three London foundation trusts have confirmed they will be part of the capital's second academic health science centre, but denied a merger was on the cards 'for the foreseeable future'.
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Enhancing quality of care
We read with interest the article on effective governance between partner organisations, write Richard Dale and Sheila Peskett
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Concern at slow response to review of brutal murder
The chair of an inquiry into the brutal murder of a man with learning disabilities has said she is 'hugely disappointed' by the NHS's failure to address the problems it identified.
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DH heralds bigger role for pharmacies
The Department of Health is to draw up plans for primary care trusts to commission more services from pharmacists.