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PFI projects ring up £52.7m in consultant bills
The full scale of expenditure on financial advisers, lawyers and other consultants in the 18 major private finance initiative hospital schemes that have so far gone ahead has been revealed in the Commons - a cool £52.7m.
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WEB WATCH
If you want to know whether the porters at Huddersfield trust have been trained in safe ways to lift and handle patients or equipment (they have), or whether Royal West Sussex trust can claim that its discharge care planning documents are an integral part of its clinical records (not yet ...
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In the wars
After a growing number of horrifying attacks on hospital staff, trusts are getting tough with their assailants. Phil Coleman reports
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Troubleshooters sent in to sort 'red-hot' pressure trust
London regional office has sent a troubleshooting team into Barts and the London trust to tackle performance in a month in which the trust has lost its chair and admitted 'red-hot pressures' in intensive care.
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Picking up the pieces
A jointly funded residential service accepts 'difficult-to-place' mental patients, whose care in the community has previously failed. Andy Ward and Jon Woolmore explain
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Shape up or ship out
More people are heading overseas for non-urgent treatment, many in response to long waiting lists at home. But should the NHS foot the bill? Seamus Ward reports
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Regular consumers of this page may remember one Dr Tara Fields, a lady doctor and Yankee to boot. (In the interests of Monitor's continued fight against institutional jokes about people not from round here, it should be noted that violence against Americans is reckless and not much fun. ) But ...
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'Matron' to return with revamped role
Health secretary Alan Milburn is to use the NHS national plan - set to be unveiled next week - to push the concept of a return to 'matron', HSJ has learned.
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Out of harm's way
Doctors who murder are rare. But doctors' deliberate harm to patients is well documented. Paul McDonald argues for better external scrutiny
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Mind how you go
Speculation about Scottish health minister Susan Deacon's future continues apace. Colin Wright reports
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Ex-trust head to make strategy-upon-Avon
A trust chief executive, forced to resign following an investigation into the trust's management of waiting-list figures, has been appointed to a strategic role at Avon health authority.
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Welsh taskforce will have 'extended role'
Welsh health and social services secretary Jane Hutt has announced an 'extended role' for its winter 'emergency pressures taskforce'.
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Empowerment to the people
Professor Aidan Halligan insists he's not one of the great and the good, but he tells Kaye McIntosh that his clinical governance support team is about delivering a 'patient-centred, staff-owned quality health service'