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Competition 'won't add quality'
There is no evidence that competition will drive up quality in the NHS, an academic commissioned by the Department of Health to analyse NHS reforms has said.
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Legal briefing: how penalties will work under the new model contract for acute trusts
The Department of Health has recently published two forms of model contract for the provision of acute hospital services, both within and outside the scope of the national tariff. The models are in legally and non-legally binding form for use by foundation trusts, hospital Trusts and PCT commissioners. We would ...
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Sophia Christie on challenging acute trusts
'A trust has never pointed out where the tariff gives a generous cross-subsidy to other activity'
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Appleby: acute trusts should be ashamed
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has said some acute trusts should be 'ashamed of themselves' for relying on mental health trusts to bail them out of financial trouble.
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Datamonitor: steady progress for acute productivity
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has published the Q3 2006-07 Better Care, Better Value indicators. As the indicators have been published for the first time on the basis of the 152 new primary care trusts (previous quarters reported on the 303 PCTs that existed until Q2 end) the ...
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RCN to discuss strike action
Nurses could be balloted over industrial action following a meeting held this week.
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Last-ditch pay talks to avert industrial action
Last-ditch pay talks between unions and the government were held this week in an attempt to avert strike action across England.
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Charity calls for urgent action on hepatitis C
Primary care trusts must invest more and improve co-ordination with local genito-urinary and hospital hepatology clinics if they are to hit government targets, managers have been told.
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South Staffs adds to foundation acquisitions
A mental health trust has become the second foundation trust to use its independent powers to take over provider services from another NHS organisation.
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Staff asked to stay at home as Scarborough accounts come under investigation
Scarborough and North Yorkshire Healthcare trust chief executive Alison Guy and director of finance Bernard Flynn have been asked to stay at home while the trust board and the local strategic health authority scrutinise accounting procedures.
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News analysis: Signs of the times - will people power deliver accountability?
Anobligation on PCTs to respond to community views - and protests - about NHS services is one of the most significant aspects of the new commissioning framework. But how might this work in practice? Daloni Carlisle petitions stakeholders for their views
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Access to healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers
A new report, A service user evaluation of the services offered by the Health Access Teamis available on the webpage of the Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Care Network.
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Conference in access farce
An NHS manager and wheelchair user has told HSJ of his dismay at being unable to access the stage to give a talk on equal rights for disabled people.
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Regional contrasts exposed in access to mental healthcare
Mental health patients in parts of England have little or no access to care and treatment, health and social care watchdogs have found.
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'Seasonal variation' to GUM access claim
Access to sexual health services varies widely at different times of the year, according to a survey of access to genito-urinary medicine clinics.
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Academics call for NHS independence
The NHS should be given greater freedom from government intervention if it is to achieve stability and success, according to a report co-written by the former head of the Department of Health strategy unit.
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Directors resign as report finds 'many years' of abuse
People with learning disabilities were hit, pushed and dragged by staff working for an NHS trust in Cornwall, a joint investigation by the Healthcare Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection has found.People with learning disabilities were hit, pushed and dragged by staff working for an NHS trust in ...
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Watts case sparks new advice for treatments abroad
Commissioners have been urged to set up systems for considering patient requests to go abroad for treatment which is provided in UK hospitals.
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'Two Sues' tight-lipped about quitting patient safety agency
The joint chief executives of the National Patient Safety Agency will be taking early retirement from 31 March, having been on gardening leave since last July.
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Doubts over DoH claims about expert patients
Claims that the expert patients programme will ease pressures on the NHS have been queried by an academic who reviewed the scheme for the Department of Health.