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Lansley looking forward to 'time when there are no more Mid Staffs'
The government and the law are on the side of NHS staff who raise concerns about patient care, the health secretary has said.
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NHS could impose mandatory retirement age after court verdict
A recent court ruling could help create a precedent allowing NHS employers to apply a compulsory retirement age to staff, HSJ has been told.
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Nicholson calls for 'leap forward' in management style
The NHS chief executive said the management style of the service will have to make a “great leap forward” if it is to survive with little or no investment in the future.
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Improved NHS procurement could save £1.2bn - Burns
Health minister Simon Burns has said the NHS can save “at least” £1.2bn over the next four years if it improves the way it handles procurement.
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Cameron introduces 'family and friends' hospitals rating
A system for ranking NHS hospitals by patient satisfaction in “real time” will be introduced across England from April next year, the prime minister has announced.
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Social enterprises face losing core contracts
Social enterprises set up by former NHS staff must improve their commercial skills or risk losing their contracts in the next two or three years, a key Department of Health official has told HSJ.
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Providers sceptical on extending mental health choice
Proposals to extend competition between any qualified provider for mental health have been greeted with scepticism.
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Doctors to take industrial action following strike ballot
UK doctors will not provide non-urgent care on 21 June in industrial action over the government’s planned pension changes, the British Medical Association has said.
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Nicholson: 'very real' chance Francis recommendations will conflict with policy
Recommendations from the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry run a “very real” risk of conflicting with government policy, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has admitted.
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Social care system needs urgent funding reform - report
Urgent reform to the funding of the social care system is needed to meet the needs of an ageing population, health experts have said.
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New research centre for major diseases opens
A new research centre to find treatments for major diseases has been opened by the Princess Royal.
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Go ahead for £35m Shropshire reconfiguration
Major changes to acute services in Shropshire have been given the green-light, paving the way for a £35m reconfiguration across the county’s two hospitals.
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South West trusts set up 'pay cartel'
Sixteen NHS trusts in the South West have banded together in a bid to make “radical” changes to staff pay, terms and conditions outside of the national Agenda for Change agreement.
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Author of seminal NHS funding review Sir Derek Wanless dies
Sir Derek Wanless, the former banker whose seminal 2002 report laid the theoretical foundations for the following decade’s huge increases in NHS funding, has died.
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Top managers set to escape regional pay
The NHS’s most senior managers should not receive localised rates of pay, the Department of Health has said.
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Minister rejects cancer drugs fund
The Welsh health minister Lesley Griffiths has told a group of top medics she is standing firm on the issue of a cancer drugs fund for Wales, saying the scheme would not work.
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New patient rating system plans welcomed
Patients will be able to rate the treatment they receive in hospitals to ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect on wards, the prime minister will announce today.
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Exclusive: HSJ Clinical Commissioning Groups Map Tool
HSJ reveals the 212 clinical commissioning groups authorised to go forward as announced by the Commissioning Board today.
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'Landmark' agreement on 212 CCGs covering England
The NHS reforms have reached the “landmark moment” of agreeing the clinical commissioning groups which will go forward to take over budgets next year, the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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Treasury targets off-payroll public sector salaries
The chief secretary to the Treasury has stressed that all public sector employees “should be on the payroll and paying the correct amount of tax”.