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NewsMiliband backs integrated health service
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said his party will seek to create an integrated healthcare system if it wins power in 2015.
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NewsExclusive: Employers seek to link pay rise to seven-day working
Next year’s pay rise for NHS staff could be linked to changes in their working practices to help force more seven-day working, it has emerged.
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NewsConcern over Monitor's Bristol 'merger' decision
Monitor has concluded that quality improvements borne of a recent reconfiguration of acute services in Bristol are not sufficient to outweigh the loss of patient choice resulting from the “merger”. The competition regulator said the decision would have “important considerations” for the “wider health system”.
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NewsPioneer database faces delay after watchdog intervenes
NHS England’s controversial plan to extract confidential information from patient records to build a national database faces a delay after an intervention by the information watchdog.
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NewsWales braced for hospital care review decision
A panel of experts is set to reveal its findings on divisive proposals to overhaul hospital services in west Wales.
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NewsHSJ Live 24.9.2013: Ed Miliband pledges to 'rescue the NHS'
Labour leader blames fragmentation of services on the current government, and describes mental health as a “one nation issue”.
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NewsExclusive: London A&Es already struggling before winter pressures begin
Emergency performance in London has declined sharply since mid August, and has now fallen to a level not normally seen until December, a leaked report shows.
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NewsExclusive: Loss-making UnitedHealth UK plans rebrand
UnitedHealth is to wind up its UK arm and plans to shift staff into another subsidiary with a more pan-European focus, HSJ understands.
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NewsMonitor warning on foundations' A&E performance
The number of NHS foundation trusts failing to meet the target for seeing patients within four hours of arriving at accident and emergency departments has doubled in the last year.
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NewsHSJ at the Labour conference – follow it live
Follow HSJ’s reporters, who are tweeting live from the Labour conference in Brighton
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NewsHealth experts to 'mine' GP notes
British researchers have begun work analysing doctors’ notes in a “big data” project which it is hoped could revolutionise healthcare and treatments.
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NewsHSJ Live 23.09.13 Monitor warning on A&E performance
What the Francis report means for commissioners, HSJ at the Labour party conference and the rest of today’s news and comment
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News20 September issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Download the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app for AndroidIn this week’s special issue, we explore the potential of seven-day working in the NHS and reveal the findings from our conversation with HSJ readers on ...
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NewsLeading CSUs recruit joint team
A group of leading commissioning support units are recruiting four new members of staff to drive and expand their programme of joint working, including one role which could be worth more than £100,000 a year.
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NewsMost popular quality premium targets revealed
Improving care for circulatory diseases and reducing emergency admissions are the targets most commonly chosen by clinical commissioning groups to be linked to their income, research has found.
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NewsLamb: Directors could face poor care prosecutions
Individual directors on the boards of healthcare providers will face the threat of criminal prosecution for neglect or abuse of patients, health minister Norman Lamb has said.
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NewsWidespread fall in GP morale, BMA poll finds
Family doctors feel increasingly fed up, overworked, tied up in red tape and worried that “dubious” government targets are stopping them treating needier patients, a British Medical Association survey has found.
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HSJ Live 20.09.13: Are US-style hopitalists the answer to 24/7 working
Chief analyst to leave NHS England, GPs’ morale slumps and the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsSocial care spend falls by 2pc
Council spending on adult social care fell by 2 per cent last year, according to figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.