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Infant mortality highest in deprived areas, finds research
Primary care trusts in London must work harder to reduce the number of infants who die within their first year of life, the London Health Observatory has warned.
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Confusion around merger of key inspectors
Uncertainty surrounds the proposed merger of the Healthcare Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection, which was expected to be announced next week.
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Hospices face losing special fee arrangements
Hospices have complained they will be disadvantaged by the Healthcare Commission's decision to remove their special status and make them pay the full cost of regulation fees.
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Arresting idea as community leaders swap jobs for health
A primary care trust chief executive is taking part in a job swap with the local police chief as part of a collaboration aimed at improving healthcare in the area.
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Laura Donnelly on the art of delegation
'If ministers want a decent view, they need to stand back'
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MPs ask how users can shape public services
The House of Commons public administration select committee has launched a new inquiry into the role that 'customers' or 'users' should have in helping improve public services. Key questions include the possibility of setting minimum standards for services and how consultations manage to capture the views of the right people.www.parliament.gov/pasc
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Operating framework: PCTs to assess services
All primary care trusts will have to conduct a service review programme next year to examine the services they commission.
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Call for NHS input into new assessments
The Audit Commission has called on the NHS to help shape the way. it carries out comprehensive. area assessments, which are set to replace comprehensive performance assessment for local government from 2009.
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Primary care trusts told to fill Atos gap
NHS providers could struggle to fill the gap left by the collapse of a £257m diagnostics contract.
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Trusts told to stop attacking each other
The primary care trust network has urged trusts to move on from blaming each other after PCTs came under attack from their acute peers.
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DoH will not limit private audiology
The Department of Health is refusing to bow to calls to limit private sector provision of audiology services.
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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Audit Commission calls for end to deficit penalties
NHS trusts should be reimbursed for the money they have lost under the Treasury's resource accounting and budgeting system, the Audit Commission has said.
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Service redesign 'needs scrutiny', says Audit Commission
Local government must have a stronger voice in service redesign and commissioning decisions to ensure the public's concerns are heard by the NHS, according to Audit Commission chair Sir Michael Lyons.
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National Audit Office scopes study on NHS complaints
The National Audit Office is considering carrying out an inquiry into the NHS complaints system following concerns about the steep rise in the number of grievances referred to the Healthcare Commission.
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Litigation Authority: negligence cost concerns
The NHS Litigation Authority has expressed concerns over the high level of legal costs charged by claimant lawyers in clinical negligence claims.
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Local authority role will mark out networks as a new voice
It makes more sense for elected representatives to concern themselves with how health services are planned than how they are provided
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PCT autonomy plans dropped
The Department of Health has backed away from proposals to give primary care trusts complete autonomy to set policies on NHS funding for continuing care.
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DoH says avoid public health redundancies
The Department of Health has decreed that 'all reasonable steps' should be taken to avoid making primary care trust public health directors redundant to enable the NHS to retain their specialist knowledge.
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Nurses ready to strike over pay award
Nurses have said they are prepared to strike over this year's pay award.