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    Scottish anti-fraud measures launched

    2008-01-28T11:51:00Z

    NHS Scotland anti-fraud measures were due to be launched this morning by health and well-being secretary Nicola Sturgeon.

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    Career coaching: yes, you can phone a friend

    2008-01-28T09:00:00Z

    In a new series, management coaches tackle HSJ readers' issues. This week, Dorothy Larios helps a trainee frustrated by a perceived lack of opportunities

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    Welsh Assembly backs patient compensation scheme

    2008-01-25T12:31:00Z

    A Welsh Assembly committee has welcomed plans for a scheme to ensure NHS patients get compensation in cases of medical negligence.

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    NHS values investigation published

    2008-01-25T12:28:00Z

    The Nuffield Trust today published the results of a major project examining NHS values in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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    DH asks how best to sack ineffective chairs

    2008-01-25T12:22:00Z

    The Department of Health has launched a consultation on the best way to get rid of primary care trust chairs or non-executive trust directors who are not up to the job.

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    Report raises worries over ultrasound quality

    2008-01-25T12:15:00Z

    A national review of maternity services by the Healthcare Commission has revealed huge variations in quality and raised concerns about the standards of ultrasound checks on unborn babies at a third of trusts.Health secretary Alan Johnson announced extra funding for maternity services over the next three years in response to ...

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    Payment by results consultation published

    2008-01-25T11:49:00Z

    The results of a consultation on the future of payment by results have been published by the Department of Health.

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    Anger over C difficile pay-off

    2008-01-25T11:21:00Z

    The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.

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    Patients report poor access to GP services

    2008-01-24T12:59:00Z

    One in five patients is still finding it difficult to get a convenient appointment to see their GP, a survey by consumer campaigners Which? has found.

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    Dementia services lag behind need, MPs claim

    2008-01-24T12:55:00Z

    The prevalence and scale of suffering from dementia has not been matched by NHS funds or status, the public accounts committee said today in a report.

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    New pay scale for unsocial hours

    2008-01-24T12:50:00Z

    NHS Employers and trade union officials have agreed on a provisional new pay scale for unsocial hours.

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    Scottish funding to tackle obesity

    2008-01-24T12:46:00Z

    The Scottish government aims to invest an extra £40m in healthy living and eating programmes targeted at reducing the country's obesity problem.

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    Darzi seeks patients' views on NHS

    2008-01-24T12:42:00Z

    Junior health minister Lord Darzi is today meeting NHS staff, patients and members of the public.More than 1,000 people will be asked to give their views on the NHS in general and particularly on their feelings about GP access and opening hours.

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    Super-regulator could be threat to vulnerable

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Plans for a new super-regulator have been attacked for cutting costs at the expense of vulnerable patients and social care users.

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    Tooke report into MMC may be illegal

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Recommendations made by the Tooke report into Modernising Medical Careers may be illegal, the Department of Health has claimed.

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    Department stalls over Freedom of Information requests

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has been failing to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. Two requests regarding senior DH civil servants made by HSJ last year have been delayed.

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    Lib Dems set out plans for future NHS

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has outlined plans for a £2bn 'care guarantee' plan for elderly people, a new patient contract and directly elected health boards as part of his proposed NHS reforms.

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    Dr Foster web deal 'violated probity'

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    The former chief of the NHS Information Centre has tried to overturn a confidentiality agreement preventing her from telling her version of why she left her post just days before a critical public accounts committee report.

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    Trusts contest figures for yearly management costs

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    NHS trusts are spending up to 15 per cent of their annual income on management costs, according to Department of Health figures released this week.

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    Fertility work suspended at two clinics

    2008-01-24T09:00:00Z

    Two fertility clinics have had their licences suspended after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority was not informed about a doctor involved in a General Medical Council investigation.