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Exclusive: Monitor reveals £15.7m consultancy spend
Healthcare sector regulator Monitor has revealed it spent £15.7m on consultants in 2012.
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Drug firms accused of pay-for-delay deal
Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has been accused by the competition watchdog of paying firms to delay the launch of cheaper versions of its antidepressant treatment, in a move which denied the NHS “significant” cost savings.
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Cancer survival rates vary by geography
Cancer patients face “wide and persistent” variations in survival rates depending on where they live, officials said.
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HSJ Live 19.04.2013: Children's heart surgery row goes on
Latest on the Leeds child heart surgery row, challenges for Oxfordshire’s integration work, and the latest other news.
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East Lancashire misses A&E target in February
PERFORMANCE: The trust missed the four hour accident and emergency target in February, due in part to a lack of available beds, board papers state.
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East Lancashire surplus ahead of plan
FINANCE: East Lancashire Hospitals Trust recorded a year-to-date surplus of £3.9m at the end of February 2013, against a planned surplus to that point of £2.9m.
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Berwick: I'm optimistic about the future of the NHS
A “better” NHS would involve redesign of service delivery but the answer is not in finding the “right number of agencies”, according to the man leading the government’s zero harm review.
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CQC could appoint three chief inspectors in regulation shake-up
The Care Quality Commission confirmed today that it planned to appoint two chief inspectors to lead its work on hospitals and adult social care. The regulator said it was also considering the appointment of a third chief inspector, responsible for primary and integrated care.
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Involve junior doctors in IT development, conference told
Health service IT managers should draw on the experiences of junior doctors when designing new processes, one such doctor has said.
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HSJ Live 18.4.2013 Charities slam competition regulations
Charities line up against controversial NHS competition rules, and the rest of the day’s news
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Exclusive: Healthcare for London review
HSJ has exclusively published the in-depth review into the flagship reconfiguration initiative
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HSJ live 17.4.2013: MPs to investigate emergency care
House of Commons health select committee issues a call for evidence on emergency services and the rest of today’s news
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Lansley intervention damaged patient care, says Carnall
The former NHS London chief executive has said Andrew Lansley damaged patient care by halting the capital’s large-scale service change programme.
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NHS England plans to lead 'radical' service change
NHS England is planning to continue the health service’s current savings drive after 2015, and to recast it as a programme of “ambitious and radical” service change led by its area teams.
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'Don't think you're different to Mid Staffs staff,' warns Berwick
NHS staff should not be confident they would have acted differently to their counterparts at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, the man leading the government’s post Francis review of patient safety has warned.
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Nurses to get 360-degree feedback in drive to improve appraisals
Nurses are to be asked to give feedback about the performance of their colleagues and seniors to contribute to appraisals, as part of a series of initiatives announced to improve nursing care quality.
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Confed: NHS should avoid administration for trusts
More needs to be done to help financially-troubled hospital trusts before they face going into administration, according to NHS representatives and unions.
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HSJ Live 16.4.2013: Don Berwick: Group will not be afraid to disagree with government or NHS leadership
Coverage of talks at two London conferences by Don Berwick, the Boston-based international expert on patient safety, who is carrying out a review of the NHS, in the wake of the Francis review, and the rest of today’s news.
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Government backs liabilities of national NHS property firm
The Department of Health has announced it will fund any income shortfalls of its newly created NHS property company, in a move widely interpreted as aiming to assure private sector investors about their assets.
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Mid Staffs placed in special administration
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been put into special administration by health sector regulator Monitor, it was announced this afternoon.