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Confed warns over challenges of innovation
Developments in genetics, regenerative medicine, web technology, surgery and telehealth will challenge the NHS, according to an NHS Confederation report out this week.
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Choice and competition are not local reality
The important review by the Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission should lead to better recognition of the huge difficulties facing reform. There are very few people in the NHS who see choice and competition as key policies for improving services.
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Top-up review set to question core NHS principles
The 'founding principles of the NHS' are to be revisited after the government launched a review of the ban preventing patients making 'top-up' payments for drugs.
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Corporate manslaughter legislation
In response to 'Academics slam two-tier legislation', the duty of care we owe patients detained under the Mental Health Act should afford them more protection under the law than the rest of the population, not less.
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Data is essential for judging success
Last week's Healthcare Commission and Audit Commission report provides a welcome opportunity to take stock of the progress the government is making with its reforms of the NHS in England.
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Look to Europe to improve healthcare
Professor Le Grand's assertion in your piece 'Just a Pawn in the Game' that despite being badly served under politicians, the NHS 'would have been worse under any other way of doing it' does not stand up to international scrutiny.
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Foundation failures upset Monitor
An increasing number of applications for foundation trust status are being turned down first time round because they are not up to scratch, it has emerged.
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Foundation says it will use surplus to loosen PFI ties
The chief executive of the foundation trust with the biggest cash surplus has said his organisation will use its £120m to minimise its dependence on the private finance initiative.
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Alan Johnson tells Confed: champion quality
Health secretary Alan Johnson has told managers they must be 'the champions of quality'.Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference, Mr Johnson said the 'overwhelming emphasis' of health minister Lord Darzi's next stage review would be on quality.
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Confed votes Nye Bevan biggest NHS hero
Nye Bevan has been voted the biggest 'NHS hero' by attendees at the NHS Confederation's most-attended conference yet.
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Confed chair opens annual conference
NHS managers must 'make the weather' in the health service themselves, rather than wait for it to be done to them, NHS Confederation chair Bryan Stoten told the body's annual conference in his opening address.
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Union welcomes pay deal for managers
Top NHS managers are set to get a 2.2 per cent pay increase this year after the government accepted the recommendations of the senior salaries review body.
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£12m to combat heart disease in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is to invest £12m over the next three years in the treatment and prevention of heart disease.
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NHS exploiting refugee doctors, says BMA
The talents of refugee and asylum-seeking doctors are being wasted because they are not being supported to work in the NHS, the British Medical Association has claimed.
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NHS leaders fear rising costs, Confed survey claims
Rising costs and further structural change are among the biggest threats to the future success of the NHS, according to a survey by the NHS Confederation.The poll of NHS leaders was published at the start of the organisation's annual conference today.
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Review of top-up policy announced
The government is to review its policy on patients who want to top up NHS care with private treatment, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.
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Healthcare Commission to check performance declarations
The Healthcare Commission will carry out a check of NHS trusts' public declarations on whether they meet the government's standards for healthcare.
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Scottish consultation on alcohol misuse
The Scottish government has launched a consultation designed to help tackle alcohol misuse.
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More GPs offering extended hours, statistics show
More patients are able to see their GP in the evenings and at weekends, according to statistics released today by the Department of Health.
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Wales launches refugee inclusion strategy
The Welsh Assembly today launched a refugee inclusion strategy, which aims to help asylum seekers gain better access to services.