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PFI plan could keep debts off NHS trusts' balance sheets
NHS trusts may hand their private finance initiative hospitals over to specially created charities to avoid reporting PFI debts on their balance sheets, HSJ has learned.The controversial plans would involve trusts ceding control of the hospitals to a third party.
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Bill Moyes keen to see teaching foundations
Monitor executive chair Bill Moyes is urging more teaching hospitals to become foundation trusts in 2009.
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Top-up payment review highlights NHS bodies' worries
Responses to the review of co-payments have revealed the extent of uncertainty about the way forward for the NHS on top-ups.
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Hull trust buys Nuffield hospital to save money
Hulland East Yorkshire Hospitals trust has bought a private Nuffield hospital to avoid contracting out services to the independent sector.
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Cervical cancer immunisation plans may exclude Muslim girls
Muslim girls will be excluded from a national vaccination scheme against cervical cancer because it clashes with the holy month of Ramadan, religious leaders are warning.
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Carbon strategy proposes tough target
The draft carbon reduction strategy for the NHS in England proposes a more stringent carbon target than the one mentioned in your article: zero-carbon hospitals by 2018.
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Putting the patient at the centre
Personal budgets are nothing more complicated than being clear with people from the outset about how much money is available to meet their level of need and allowing them greater choice over how it is spent.
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Pricing tariffs would reduce coding errors
A simple device could improve clinical coding and costing at a stroke: all providers should put the cost of the patient episode (provisional if necessary) with the clinical discharge summary letter to the GP as the patient leaves hospital.
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Conservatives plan to step up councils' role in health
Public health directors would have to report to local authorities under plans announced by the shadow health secretary last week.
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Doctors' memory sticks threaten data security
Hospital doctors are carrying 'hundreds of thousands of kilobytes' of sensitive and identifiable patient information around on memory sticks with no security protection, a survey has found.
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Emma Dent on the need for moving help
In these pressed financial times, with estate agents twiddling their thumbs for lack of activity and thinking of sending their kids up chimneys to help pay the bills, I have struck on a way they can boost business.
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Top-ups: experts divided over health's thorniest issue
Should patients be allowed to top up their care by paying privately for drugs? The question has confounded experts and now the government has an unenviable task in making a final decision. Helen Crump reports
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NHS North East publishes workforce plans
The first major regional workforce proposals published since the next stage review appear to confirm the strong role given to strategic health authorities.NHS North East is creating a new regional-level organisation called NHS Education North East.
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Enhancing service requires proper funding
I must respond to Sophia Christie's column. The days of the GP doing an ever-expanding range of tasks for the same money are gone. Movement from secondary to primary care must be accompanied by altered funding flows.
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London polyclinics to use 'federated' model
None of London's first wave of controversial polyclinics will deliver all its services from a single new standalone building.
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Large variations in quality of health regulation
Large variations in how much health regulators protect the public have been exposed in annual performance reviews.
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PCTs press for south London hospitals shake-up
Primary care trusts have warned that delaying the proposed reconfiguration of hospitals in south east London could push services to breaking point.
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Clare Chapman to judge Healthcare 100 entries
Department of Health workforce director general Clare Chapman has given her support to HSJ's Healthcare 100 awards by agreeing to be one of the judges validating the list of the UK's top healthcare employers.NHS and independent sector providers have until 15 September to register for the awards, delivered jointly with ...
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Foetus size linked to miscarriage risk
Research at St George's Hospital has discovered a link between the size of the foetus at 12 weeks and the likelihood of miscarriage.
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UK psychiatric patients 'worst off'
Seriously mentally ill patients in the UK suffer more from the consequences of their illness than their European counterparts, an international survey for the World Federation for Mental Health has suggested.