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Trust fears a £4m shortfall in equipment funding
University Hospitals of Leicester trust is predicting a £4m shortfall in funding for medical equipment. Trust medical director Dr Allan Cole told a board meeting that the trust needed £8m 'just to stand still', but has only £4m to spend. 'The funding for emergency medical equipment has always been inadequate. ...
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Alder Hey compensation claim could run to £15m
The Alder Hey organ retention scandal looks set to spark one of the biggest compensation claims in the history of the NHS. Parents of children whose organs were retained are seeking compensation payments from Alder Hey and Liverpool University which could cost the health service £15m. Around 500 parents have ...
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£1bn investment targets 'not achievable'
The government's £1bn investment plans for primary care premises are unworkable and cannot be achieved within the timescale set, according to a national survey of GPs and managers reported exclusively in HSJ.
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Some things wicked
The NHS plan promised a change in the quality of leadership. Carole Doherty reflects on the practicalities of achieving that ambition
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Socket to them
The NHS does an outstanding job making artificial eyes for patients who need them. But, as Laura Donnelly discovered, There is a lot more to the service than that
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The Sheffield story
Four rehabilitation resource centres in Sheffield, one for each primary care group area, will eventually offer different aspects of rehabilitation to older people. Resource centre project manager Gill Greenwood says: 'We are developing different things at different times. 'Eventually each will offer a rehabilitation wing, a hospital discharge wing, a ...
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Winter pressures
Over the winter there was only one story to be written about the NHS - why is not there a winter crisis? The latest report from the winter and emergency services team (WEST) confirms part of the answer - no influenza.
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THE PERSUADERS
Name: John Appleby Job: Health systems programme director, King's Fund Style: Everyone's fave economist - except Number 10's, perhaps. His 'precision'analysis showed up the flaws in Tony Blair's pledge - sorry, aspiration - to raise the share of GDP spent on health to EU levels, and was apparently seen as ...
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The British Medical Association is to meet health minister John Denham in an attempt to make progress in the deadlocked negotiations over the introduction of annual appraisals for GPs. The appraisal scheme - pledged in the NHS plan to start this month - is now scheduled to begin during the ...
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Senior managers'pay
Pay rises for senior managers, including performance-related pay, must not exceed 3. 7 per cent of the pay bill for this group in any organisation this year, NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp announced last week.
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We have waited too long for an outpatient shake-out
Primary care must take the strain in a modern health service
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Independence way
Intermediate care has been redefined and given a new emphasis - as well as new money. But the model being introduced has had little evaluation and may produce no added benefits to patients, says Claire Laurent
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How the teams work
If police, magistrates and probation services feel a person has a mental disorder they call in a team from South Essex Mental Health and Community Care trust.
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Troubled finance round triggers joint search for fairer process
Department of Health officials are planning to attend a joint meeting of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and NHS Confederation in June to discuss how to improve the process of agreeing service and financial frameworks across the NHS.
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Down but not out
Outpatient clinics are out-of-date and much of their function could occur in primary care, says the NHS Confederation. But will not some clinics always be needed? Mark Gould examines the arguments
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Dear Mel. . .
What is a glass ceiling ? I seem to remember someone else asking you this some time ago but I've forgotten the answer.