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'Accelerated' demise of IT scheme needs clarity for involved businesses
IT professionals have called for clarity after the government announced an “acceleration” in the dismantling of the national IT scheme.
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Farrar and GP commissioners criticise competition diktat
Plans to introduce “any qualified provider” competition for at least three services from next year will stifle local decision making, according to GP commissioners and NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar.
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Nicholson says only 'small number' of PFI hospitals need extra funds
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson appeared to contradict Andrew Lansley today when he told the Mid Staffs inquiry most PFI hospitals were “not in financial difficulty”.
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CQC's annual report overstated inspection figures
The Care Quality Commission’s annual report claimed the regulator had carried out more than twice as many inspections as had actually taken place, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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Commissioning support costs for CCGs emerging with variations
Indications have emerged of planned expenditure on commissioning support. London primary care trusts are predicting costs of £16 per head of population – £5 more than their counterparts in Coventry and Warwickshire, HSJ has learned.
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CQC sets out tougher inspections approach
The Care Quality Commission has set out in full its plans to carry out far more rigorous hospital inspections.
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Southern Cross homes transfer to take place this week
More than 250 care homes run by Southern Cross are to be transferred to new companies by this weekend as part of plans to shut down the sector’s biggest operator.
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Agency workers to get improved employment deal
New rights for temporary and short term contract staff are due to come into force this weekend, helping to stamp out some of the exploitation agency staff face at work, the TUC has said.
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Low access to flagship mental health scheme revealed
Only 2 per cent of people with anxiety or depression are receiving psychological therapies, despite successive government pledges to improve access to treatments.
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Nicholson: State should have power to renationalise FTs
The NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has told the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry he would like to see the government have power to bring failing foundation trusts back under state control.
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DH issues warning over use of flu vaccine in children
Directors of public health have been advised that the influenza vaccine Viroflu should not be used in children under five years old due to an increased risk of fever.
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Tighter regulation called for as struck off nurses 'return to hospitals'
A growing number of unregulated healthcare assistants in British hospital could bring about a “national disaster”, the leader of a nursing regulator has warned.
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Financial challenge facing NHS is 'unprecedented' - Farrar
The “unprecedented financial challenge” facing the NHS that may force service cuts and reductions in the numbers of hospital beds, the NHS Confederation chief executive has said.
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Lords set to launch further Health Bill challenge
The government’s health reforms could be delayed further due to a series of likely challenges as the Health Bill reaches the House of Lords.
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Businesses call for Osborne to dip into health budget if economy worsens
An influential business lobby group is calling for the Treasury to consider “dismantling” the ring fence protecting health spending if the economy has not improved “significantly” by the 2012 Budget.
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Flexible hospital visits claim defended by Carter
A nurses’ leader who suggested relatives of the elderly should be encouraged to help care for loved ones while in hospital has moved to defend his comments.
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Doctors 'failing' cancer patients on side effects
Cancer patients are being let down “far too often” by doctors failing to spot other medical problems caused by their treatment, according to a leading expert on the disease.
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Exclusive: CCG leaders: Gerada is 'misleading' over GP commissioning
Fourteen clinical commissioning groups have accused the Royal College of GPs’ chair of causing “confusion” and “anxiety” by claiming GPs face a conflict between commissioning services and their duty to patients.
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Former CMO dealt out photos of dead children on minister's desk like a "pack of cards"
It is too easy for the higher echelons of the NHS to forget about the impacts of their policies on real people while staff on the front line can become “inured to suffering”, the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry has heard.
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Organ donor plans condemned by Archbishop
Plans to introduce presumed consent for organ donation could turn “volunteers into conscripts”, the Archbishop of Wales has warned.