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Cautious welcome for mental health commissioning guidance
Charities and mental health managers have welcomed new commissioning guidance designed to improve the physical health of people with mental health problems. But they have warned of the ?huge task ahead?.
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SNP to review free care policy
Scotland's main opposition party has pledged a review of the flagship free personal care policy if it wins power in next year's Scottish Parliament elections.
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Ballot on NHS Logistics strike
Workers at the NHS Logistics Authority, which supplies the NHS across England, are set to ballot for strike action in opposition to the awarding of a £4bn supplies contract to Texas-based company Novation and its German partner DHL
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Anger over NICE colon cancer drug verdict
Charities have reacted angrily to the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence not to recommend the use of two colon cancer drugs.
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Government consults ahead of new choice framework
The Department of Health has vowed to involve 'as many people as possible' in a national listening exercise about how to expand choice beyond elective care.
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Warning on Agenda for Change
Health minister Lord Warner has written to all senior managers in the NHS expressing concerns at the slow progress of ensuring contract staff in catering, cleaning and ancillary services are on contracts that give them parity with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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Reid loses A&E row in Scotland
Former health secretary John Reid's local hospital is to lose its accident and emergency department under a £300m reorganisation of health services in Lanarkshire.
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Mental health choice about culture not venue, says Prior
Choice of treatment is more important than choice of venue in mental health, according to Cliff Prior, chief executive of mental health charity Rethink.
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Six new hospitals approved in £1.5bn PFI spree
The government has approved six NHS private finance initiative hospital developments worth almost £1.5bn.
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Only half of PCT top jobs go to old guard
As HSJ went to press, 26 of 47 posts running new PCTs across five SHAs have been filled by PCT chief executives.
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Spent forces: who pulls the levers on local funding
The King's Fund report on variations in primary care trust spending demonstrates that the 'postcode lottery' stretches far beyond the availability of drugs. But are PCT priorities really at the heart of decision making? Tash Shifrin reports
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Syphilis surge in North West prompts warning to look for early symptoms
An upsurge of syphilis in the North West has prompted the region's health protection agency to tell doctors and dentists to be on the lookout for early symptoms.
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Cash-strapped capital gets team of temporary heads as Nicholson moves to top job
Ruth Carnall has been appointed interim chief executive of London strategic health authority, pending a permanent appointment.
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Cancer networks should coordinate commissioning, say charities
A coalition of 29 cancer charities has produced a consultation green paper urging the government to create a new national cancer plan.
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Bishop condemns chaplain redundancies
The Bishop of Worcester has described as a 'piece of destruction' proposals by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust to make six chaplains redundant as part of plans to tackle an underlying £30m deficit.
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Netcare lead bidder for Manchester integrated clinical assessment and treatment services
The Department of Health has named Netcare and Partnership Health Group - in partnership with Alliance Medical - as preferred bidders for its controversial integrated clinical assessment and treatment services in Manchester, HSJhas learnt.
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Welsh Ambulance Service gets third chief executive in as many months
The Welsh Ambulance Services trust has appointed a turnaround expert as its permanent chief executive.
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Union hits out at 'back-door' privatisation of ambulance service
A new NHS procurement agency has been accused of attempting a 'back-door privatisation' of East Midlands Ambulance Service trust.
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Staffordshire ambulance chief defends figures after response time probe
Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust acting chief executive Geoff Catling has defended his organisation following a probe into allegations that 999 response times were being fiddled.
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HSJ barometer: elective activity
The major shift in the latest Barometer survey of acute trust chief executives was a slowdown in elective activity. Thirty-eight per cent of respondents said they did less activity than planned in July, while 24 per cent did the same amount. This compared with 8 per cent and 48 per ...