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NHS Confed: Health Bill could lead to vital decisions 'paralysis'
The government should change and clarify the Health Bill to help the NHS deal with its enormous financial pressures, the NHS Confederation has said.
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Labour peers prepare amendments for health bill
Labour peers are taking aim at the Health Bill’s planned new accountability regime, emphasising the need for a stronger patient voice and for the relationships between statutory bodies to be clarified.
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Mid Staffs warned on A&E staffing levels
The Care Quality Commission has issued Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust with a formal warning to improve staffing levels in accident and emergency or risk service closures.
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Health Bill analysis: Lords likely to win policy shifts
Key areas of policy will come under scrutiny as the Health Bill faces its critics in the House of Lords. HSJ analyses likely changes.
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Exclusive: Keogh warns NHS against 'blanket' treatment bans
NHS medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has warned that commissioners must not bring in “outright bans” on treatments or interventions.
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Duty of Candour to be enforced through contracts
All organisations providing services to the NHS will be contractually obliged to inform patients and relatives if a mistake has been made under proposals set out by the government.
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MS patient care not improving, report claims
NHS services for multiple sclerosis patients have barely improved at all in the past five years, a report has revealed.
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Hospital competition could 'negatively affect' quality
Competition between hospitals does not necessarily improve quality, new research has found.
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BMA 'alarmed' about CCGs excluding some GPs and LMCs
The British Medical Association GPs committee chair is “becoming increasingly alarmed” by how clinical commissioning groups are developing, he has said in a letter to GPs.
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Burnham moves back to health in shadow cabinet reshuffle
Andy Burnham has been confirmed as John Healey’s replacement as shadow health secretary.
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Patients facing 27-week waits for physiotherapy services
Patients needing to access NHS physiotherapy services are facing waits of up to 27 weeks, according to a new report.
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Treatments for drug addiction fall
The number of patients needing treatment for hard drug addiction fell by almost 10,000 over the last two years, figures show.
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John Healey steps down as shadow health secretary
Shadow health secretary John Healey has resigned from the shadow cabinet, HSJ has learned.
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Lansley's 'shining example' forced to deny rationing claims
A social enterprise held up as a “shining example” by Andrew Lansley has been accused of “rationing” physiotherapy services through its use of the flagship any qualified provider policy.
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Council chiefs rebel over public health funding sign-off
Council chief executives are understood to have staged a backlash over the Department of Health’s bid to get them to “sign off” local public-health spending figures.
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CCGs call for more choice over commissioning support
Clinical commissioners have called on ministers to allow them to access a greater variety of commissioning support, as soon as possible.
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Lansley told to produce evidence that personal budgets work
The government must produce evidence that personal health budgets improve outcomes, cost and patient experience before they are fully rolled out, according to a report.
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Cost of treating brain disorders doubles
Treating brain disorders such as depression and dementia in the UK is costing £116bn annually, a total which has risen more than 50 per cent in just six years.
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Supply chain faces challenges on two fronts over legal concerns
The procurement service for the NHS is facing challenges on two fronts, HSJ can reveal, amid claims some of its frameworks could put trusts at risk of legal action.
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Public health engagement group to steer DH policy
An engagement team has been set up to road test government policy on public health over the coming months.