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Chief medical officer should resign, say junior doctors
Junior doctors have repeated calls for England's chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson to resign over changes to training that 'messed up thousands of doctors' lives'.
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Figures spark fresh concern over dental contracts
Nearly half of dentists faced having payments taken back after failing to meet targets in the first year of the new NHS dental contract, reveal statistics obtained by the British Dental Association.The association said many of the targets were unfair and called on primary care trusts to take a 'constructive, ...
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3,000 staff to get performance bonus
Staff from Chelsea and Westminster Hospital foundation trust have each been awarded a £100 bonus to celebrate the organisation's excellent performance.
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DoH may wipe financial slate clean for 17 struggling trusts
The Department of Health is considering wiping out historical debts of at least some of the 17 trusts it has classified as 'financially challenged'.
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A&E shake-up plans face clinical opposition
Plans to radically change hospital services in West Sussex - including downgrading two out of three accident and emergency departments - are facing competition from new options favoured by clinicians.
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All non-executives resign from infection-hit Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
All the non-executives of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal have left.
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PCTs will not take on escort and bedwatch roles from Prison Service until April
Primary care trusts will commission prison healthcare security services a year later than planned because of behind-the-scenes wrangling over costs.
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Banks threaten to hit FTs with rate hike over debt guarantees
Banks have threatened to hike up the interest rates they charge foundation trusts in the absence of a guarantee that the government will underwrite their debts.
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Unions fear precedent in FT pay battle
A hospital's refusal to adopt a national pay agreement has raised questions over the limits of foundation trusts' independence.
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Systems blamed as North Bristol trust workers overpaid
A hospital trust that overpaid staff by £160,000 has blamed teething problems with the new NHS-wide electronic staff record system.
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Plea to trust bosses to boost organ donation
The head of the NHS transplant agency has called on trust managers to play a greater role in boosting organ donation and improving transplant services.
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Infection control: C difficile measures improve at Stoke Mandeville
Buckinghamshire Hospitals trust has made 'significant progress' on infection control a year on from a Clostridium difficile outbreak that killed 33 people, says the Healthcare Commission. But the regulator highlighted doctors' poor hand hygiene as a serious concern in a follow-up report published today.
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Call to reward patients using cheaper care
NHS patients should be given financial incentives to choose the most cost-efficient providers or treatments, a leading US academic has told officials.
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Franchise plan for primary care draws fire from GPs
A primary care trust is planning an innovative strategy to franchise out 'branded' primary care centres.
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DoH considering 'tolerance levels' on waiting-time target
Trusts have welcomed plans to allow leeway on the government's flagship 18-week waiting-time target as proof that the NHS has 'grown up'.
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ISTC second wave faces cuts
The government is expected to announce significant cuts to the planned second phase of its independent sector treatment centre programme.
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MP demands severance deal figure
A Conservative MP is demanding the Department of Health discloses the severance settlement paid last month to Mark Rees, the former chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals trust.
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PFI debt fears as district general hospitals feel the squeeze
District generals' income is set to take a hit as specialist hospitals and primary care trusts move in on their territory. How will they pay PFI debts of £28.5bn, asks Sally Gainsbury
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Doctors demand 'revolution' to increase part-time posts
The NHS will need to undergo a 'cultural revolution' if the government gives millions more parents the right to work part-time, doctors have warned.
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PCTs to be primed for greater NICE input
Primary care trusts will have a bigger say over the way new drugs are used under plans being drawn up this winter.