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Trust apologises for leak of payroll details
Royal Cornwall Hospitals trust has apologised to 12,000 staff after a laptop computer holding their payroll details went missing.
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Anti-sexism guide
The Department of Health and NHS Employers have published best practice guidance on how NHS organisations can develop a gender equality scheme. Trusts will need to comply with a new gender equality duty in April. This requires public sector organisations to show that they treat male and female employees and ...
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Anna Donald on doctors' motives
'The NHS needs doctors firing on all cylinders, not retreating to their duvets'
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Anna Donald
'I had the tea lady from hell. I woke to be greeted by a short, angry person wielding a large trolley'
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Anna Donald on consumer information
'Patients must indeed be patient. The term 'patient-led' invites disbelief that patients are going to lead the NHS'
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United Lincolnshire trust non-execs angry at 'shoddy' treatment
Two non-executive directors have spoken out after they and five others resigned from a trust board - leaving just the chair and executive members in place.
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MPs' response to angry nurses leaked
The Labour Party has given MPs a model letter to help them deal with nurses furious at last week's below-inflation pay award.
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Angry staff boo minister at Unison conference
Angry NHS staff booed and heckled health minister Andy Burnham at Unison's annual healthcare conference this week.
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Anger over high pay at CPPIH
Patients' representatives have expressed outrage at the £500,000 combined salaries of the senior management team at the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health. They say CPPIH should be disbanded and the money spent on local initiatives.
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Union votes show reform anger from staff and doctors
ballots Protests at private 'take-overs' and BMA leadership 'failure'
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News analysis Trusts feel impact as PFI and payment by results collide
Cash-strapped trusts locked into expensive and inflexible PFI deals have always faced particular challenges. But with payment by results making no allowance for the extra costs they face, their future is looking bleak indeed. Alison Moore reports
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News analysis: Sir Ian says intervene early and take tough decisions
So the deficit is smaller than the critics suggested, but NHS acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers admits the service is not where he wants it to be. And he tells Nick Edwards that the longer trusts leave it to get back on track financially, the harder it will be
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Controversial American set to lead commercial directorate
The Department of Health is set to draft in another American to head up the commercial directorate and oversee its merger with the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency.
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Ambulance chiefs issue jobs threat
Chief executives of soon-to-be defunct ambulance trusts have given the government just weeks to resolve their positions or face legal action.
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Welsh ambulance review
The Welsh Assembly is to hold an inquiry into the country's ambulance service ? but only after the health minister mistakenly voted in favour. Labour's Brian Gibbons voted by mistake with opposition parties to ensure there will be a probe.
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Warning over overseas ambulance call centres
The chair of the Commons health select committee has raised fears that arguments in support of reconfiguration could lead to ambulance control centres being moved abroad.
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Response-time target reprieve for ambulance trusts
New-look ambulance trusts have been given an extra year to ensure they hit the tightened-up target of reaching all life-threatening emergency calls within eight minutes.
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Alliance forms network for senior leaders
A forum has been set up for senior primary care managers who work with clinicians.
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Statutory control on decisions is not enough to allay fears
All over the country, primary care trust chief executives are sitting hot and sweaty in their best suits, fighting for their future careers.