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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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GPs committee issues guidance on extended access
The British Medical Association GPs committee has drawn up guidance to explain changes to the GP contract on extended access.
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Wales draws up plans to stop hospital violence
The Welsh Assembly is to draw up an action plan on tackling violence and aggression in hospitals and other health centres.
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Unions criticise NHS pay deal
Eight unions representing health sector workers have joined forces to criticise the multi-year pay offer for NHS staff announced this week.
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£45m earmarked for biomedical research
The Department of Health is to invest £45m in 12 new biomedical research units as part of a drive to prevent, diagnose and treat heart disease, asthma and obesity.