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Baby Boomers strain services
The pressure of an ageing population will compel governments around the world to change the funding of public services, according to a new study from consultants Deloitte.
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Test strip price cut is 'step back' in diabetes care
People with diabetes could suffer if the Department of Health goes ahead with planned cuts in the prices for glucose testing strips, an industry body has warned.
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Lord Hunt back at DoH in ministerial shake-up
Former junior health minister Lord Hunt has returned to the Department of Health as a minister of state.
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Get reform back on track and finance will follow
The NHS financial crisis was not caused by too much reform too quickly, but by too little too late, argues Keith Palmer. Efforts to restore balance should not be allowed to delay it further
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Hewitt promises to back 'unpopular decisions'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has given her strongest promise yet that she will back managers wanting to drive through difficult hospital closures and service reconfiguration.
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Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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Community hospital cash depends on 'local backing'
The Department of Health wants acute and primary care trusts to use a series of 'marketing tactics' in consulting local populations on the future of community hospitals.
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Good intentions could be disguising a big, bad threat
It is the much-heralded new model for 21st century healthcare provision, but could confusion over its meaning and the lack of safeguards against manipulation leave social enterprise open to abuse from profit-makers? Helen Mooney finds out
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Revealed: what makes doctors go bad
Ninety per cent of badly performing doctors have a 'learning deficit', new research into their behaviour concludes.
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Why binning bad habits will take the fudge out of finance
The Audit Commission's recommendations on redesigning the NHS's management of finance marks a fundamental shift in accountability, culture, planning and spending, argues Andy McKeon
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SHA hurries to beat bad press on service review
Health chiefs at NHS South East Coast are rushing to canvass public and patient opinions before their proposals for a review of patient services in Kent get too much negative press.
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Hewitt vows to end mental health 'bail-outs'
Patricia Hewitt has pledged that mental health trusts will no longer have to 'bail out the overspenders' in the acute sector.
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Balance shift tariff pledge
The next 12 months will be a 'difficult' time for the NHS as it tries to get to grips with a tariff system that is still 'unbalanced', the NHS chief executive has admitted.
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'Balance right' on revised mental health bill
The government is digging its heels in over the Lords' amendments to the Mental Health Bill.
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The SHA interviews, Barbara Hakin: 'I've got a very strong sense of fair'
Laura Donnelly interviews the new chief executive of East Midlands SHA
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LINks face uphill battle on recruitment
Local involvement networks will struggle to recruit members, patient and public involvement forums have warned.
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Trust fights on in battle to expose 'mole'
An NHS trust's seven-and-a-half-year legal fight to uncover the mole who leaked details of Moors Murderer Ian Brady's treatment while on hunger strike is to continue, despite estimated costs of over £1m.
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Hammersmith Hospitals trust to cut beds
A leading teaching hospital has warned employees that a programme of service redesign will mean treating fewer patients, in fewer beds, with fewer staff.
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Former chief exec calls for more private beds for children
Commissioners should make greater use of the independent sector to stop children from being placed on adult mental health wards, a former mental health trust chief executive has said.
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Just the end of the beginning for Monitor
With 62 members, the foundation movement is coming of age. Monitor chair Bill Moyes offers a compelling picture of where foundation trusts are heading, and outlines his vision for the regulator's future