All News articles – Page 1964
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The high price of success
Some GPs may be stigmatised as 'problem prescribers', but one presentation at the conference showed how following national guidelines by prescribing treatments which have accepted benefits for patients can threaten drugs budgets.
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How it works
In mediation, three rooms are normally booked in a hotel or conference centre convenient to the parties. There is one room for each party and one central room, called the caucus, where each party can address the other over a table.
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Under the influence
Health consumer groups have more opportunities to influence national policy, yet they see providing advice and support as more important. Kathryn Jones and colleagues find out why
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Job's worth
Legal pitfalls over employment law await primary care trusts. Alison Moore looks at the human resources implications for these large employers
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Water jump
Ann Lloyd used to be a hydrologist, but the new director of the NHS in Wales has long had the health service flowing through her veins. Tash Shifrin reports
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Money talks
In our occasional series profiling people in contrasting roles, Ann Dix quizzes two finance directors - one in a whole-service trust, the other in a PCT
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Where are they now?
What motivates people to join the NHS, sometimes taking a 50 per cent pay cut in the process? Five years ago HSJ talked to a group of new entrants about their aspirations. Joanna Lyall finds out how three of them have fared
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Manager's £22,000 pay increase is a 'disgrace'
Unison has described a £22,000 pay award to a Lanarkshire health board senior manager as 'disgusting and a disgrace'.
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£1.1m is set aside for redundancy payouts
Managers at the country's first completed private finance initiative hospital have set aside £1.1m to fund anticipated redundancies among non-clinical staff, a tribunal heard.
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Charities pay 10 per cent of London's health bill
Charities pay £500m - nearly 10 per cent - of London's annual health service bill of £5bn, according to research by the Charities Aid Foundation in association with the King's Fund. Most of the money was spent on hospice care, clinical equipment, refurbishment of hospitals and medical research. Around £214m ...
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NHS Executive pulls the plug on private schemes worth £58m
A trust is pressing for NHS capital funding after changes in a private consortium's financial figures forced the NHS Executive to axe four private finance initiative schemes last week.
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Government launches £40m 'programmes for action'
The government has launched three programmes for action on orthopaedics, dermatologists and ear, nose and throat surgery. The programmes - for which funding of £40m was announced in August - aim to enable 'innovative practice', cut waiting times, improve patient access and reduce inequalities in provision of services. The programmes ...
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Publicly funded schemes losing more acute beds than PFI deals
More acute beds have been lost in publicly financed hospital building projects than in private finance initiative deals, NHS head of private finance and capital Peter Coates has claimed.