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Incentivise GPs to collect vital ethnic data, urge PCT leaders
Middle managers have hit out at inadequate incentives to collect information on ethnicity that could help tackle health inequalities.
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Teenage pregnancy: confidentiality guide hailed as step forward
Moves to strengthen confidentiality for young people have been hailed as a step forward in efforts to bring down teenage pregnancy rates.
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ISTC contract shortcomings are exposed
An HSJ investigation has found that the vast majority of independent sector treatment centres did not deliver the work contracted for in 2006-07.
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Money for nothing in the ISTC labour crisis
They were meant to cut waiting times for routine operations, but independent sector treatment centres continue to go under-used while primary care trusts foot the bill. Alison Moore reports
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Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.
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Disability watchdog names and shames SHAs
The NHS is failing to tackle disability discrimination, with strategic health authorities among the worst culprits, according to a watchdog.
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Four more granted foundation trust status
Four more trusts have been granted foundation trust status by Monitor, the independent regulator.
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Going off Ofcare
Ministers are not keen on the proposed name for the new health and social care regulator, Ofcare.
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Tool promises to improve access to GPs
A new tool aimed at giving patients better access to their GP and cutting the number of face-to-face GP consultations by up to 60 per cent is to be launched by the Royal College of GPs today.
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Darzi report stresses equality and access
Health secretary Alan Johnson says he is confident GPs can be persuaded to provide the additional services proposed in Lord Darzi's review of the NHS, published this morning.But he made clear that the private sector would also be a part of moves to set up 150 new walk-in centres and ...
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Monitor applicant deferrals
Aspirant foundation trusts will only be given three months to remedy inadequate foundation plans before they are pushed back to the end of the waiting list to beomce a foundation trust, according to the Monitor, the foundation trust regulator.In a drastic move Monitor has slashed the amount of time it ...
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changes at the top
Barking, Redbridge and Havering NHS Trust has been asked not to give any further information on its chief executive stepping down by the Strategic Health Authority.A statement from the trust cited the reason for Mark Rees sudden departure as 'in light of the London health strategic plans and the objective ...
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Clarification on professional executive committee pensions
The Department of Health has written to primary care trusts to clarify pension arrangements for members of PCT professional executive committees.
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Dentists doing less complex work, figures show
Dentists are carrying out less complex work since the introduction of the new contract in April last year.
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Confed kicks off membership meetings
The NHS Confederation's annual round of membership meetings will start this evening.
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Darzi to outline findings of NHS review
Junior health minister Lord Darzi will today outline the full findings of his review of the NHS.This will include the establishment of a Health Innovation Council to 'develop and deploy hi-tech healthcare such as medical devices and diagnostics'.Visit hsj.co.uk today for more updates on the review as they emerge
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Trust may change how it manages international patients
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children trust is consulting on a proposal to manage its international and private patient division through a separate charity.
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No comment on chief executive's departure
Barking, Redbridge and Havering Hospitals trust has been asked by NHS London not to give any further information on its chief executive stepping down.
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CJD disease figures released
The Department of Health has released the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.This includes cases of variant CJD - the form of the disease thought to be linked to bovine BSE.