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Tee calls for cash incentives
NHS Direct could be paid extra to focus on taking calls from patients living in deprived areas or with specific health needs, its chief executive Matt Tee has revealed.
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Candidates will need a 'cross-NHS view'
NHS Confederation trustees were due to meet this week to begin discussing recruitment for the position vacated by Gill Morgan.
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Morgan leaves Confed for Wales
Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.
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Department plays down medic supply fears
The Department of Health has tried to dampen fears that the NHS faces a drop in the supply of European labour, which experts say could lead to doctor shortages.
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Johnson said to favour principles over 'rights'
Health secretary Alan Johnson is against a patients' charter-style NHS constitution, HSJ has been told.
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Monitor fights shy of legal tussles
Monitor will seek to avoid tightening the rules on income from private patients because it fears legal reprisals from foundation trusts, HSJ has learned.
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Staff sacked after offensive image probe
A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.
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Tories attack drug treatment plans
The Conservatives have criticised home secretary Jacqui Smith’s plans to remove benefits for drug addicts failing to comply with their treatment programme, saying they do not go far enough.
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Practice managers seek lobby muscle
GP practice managers are attempting to establish their own national representative body to lobby on behalf of the profession and develop a code of ethics that members can sign as a mark of their professionalism.
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Campaign seeks to boost social care workforce
1 March will see the launch of a nationwide social care recruitment campaign.
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Funding boost for specialist doctors
The Department of Health will more than double the funds available to support the professional development of specialist doctors in 2008/09, health minister Ann Keen has announced.
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NICE issues first smoking cessation guidance
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence today published its first comprehensive guidance on smoking cessation. It says primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and commissioners should set 'minimum realistic targets' and aim to treat at least 5 per cent of local smokers each year.
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Doctor contract ballot launched
The British Medical Association has opened a ballot of staff and associate-grade (SAS) doctors on a proposed NHS contract.
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£3.87m health research funding announced
Health research funding worth £3.8m has been announced by the Welsh Assembly and the Medical Research Council.
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Charity calls for dying-at-home funding
Marie Curie Cancer Care has said it needs more funding to extend a scheme to double the number of people able to die at home rather than in hospital.
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Placebos 'as effective as antidepressants'
Antidepressants are only moderately more effective than placebos for mild depression, according to research carried out at Hull University.The research, published in the Public Library of Science Journal, said that when unpublished clinical trial data was included, their benefit fell below accepted levels.
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£170m to be invested in talking therapies
£170m is to be invested in a training programme for 3,600 psychological therapists and to increase access to low and high-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy.
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"Gill has made NHS Confederation into the most effective trade association in the country without doubt." John Restell, chief executive, MiP. "Under her leadership the NHS has had real credibility nationally. She has been a really important figure in a very important transitional phase of NHS management." Jan Filochowski, interim ...
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HSJ masterclass
Trust boards should examine their governance structures and the partnerships between different agencies, according to a paper published this week.The paper "Governance between organisations" calls on NHS trusts to look outside their organisations and ensure that their partnerships between ambulance trusts, commissioners, local authorities and social services departments are up ...
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Fraud charges
Two former directors of a private hospital group have been charged with conspiracy to defraud the NHS.The move by Norfolk police follows an investigation lasting more than a year into financial irregularities at Cawston Park Hospital, one of three psychiatric hospitals run by Chancellor Care. The NHS Counter Fraud and ...