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NewsLansley: I have fought 'misinformation and misrepresentation' over reforms
The government has battled “misinterpretation, misinformation and misrepresentation” in its efforts to reform the NHS, health secretary Andrew Lansley told the Conservative party conference today.
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NewsCircle pulls out of bid to run hospital
Private healthcare firm Circle has pulled out of a bid to run a hospital in Surrey.
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NewsUnison 'will not campaign' against all reconfigurations
A senior Unison figure has revealed to HSJ that the union is prepared to accept some hospital reconfigurations.
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NewsNHS managers to be balloted for industrial action, HSJ learns
Members of Managers in Partnership will be asked whether they want to join action being planned by unions including Unison, to which MiP is aligned, against changes to public sector pensions.
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NewsMid Staffs to close 165 beds on road to recovery
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust is to close nearly 40 per cent of its beds as part of a recovery plan designed to tackle its growing deficit.
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NewsOverseas doctors face English tests before starting work
Foreign doctors will be made to take language tests before starting work in the NHS, under new rules being introduced in the wake of a number of scandals involving overseas medical professionals.
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NewsGovernment to oppose Lords move for extra Health Bill scrutiny
The government will strongly resist calls for large parts of its Health Bill to be referred to a select committee in the Lords – a move which would further frustrate its progress through Parliament – HSJ understands.
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NewsFormer Mid Staffs chief admits to considering suicide
The former chief executive of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has revealed he considered taking his own life in the wake of the fallout from the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into the trust.
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NewsPull bill now, public health doctors urge Lords
The government’s health reforms will do “irreparable harm” to the NHS, a group of public health doctors and specialists, including Sir Michael Marmot, have warned.
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NewsFarrar clashes with Lansley over 'over-managed' claim
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has been forced to defend himself against charges that patients will suffer due as a result of management cuts.
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NewsGovernment sets out limits of Health Bill compromise
The government is prepared to compromise over how the Health Bill sets out the health secretary’s duties to ensure the NHS provides services, HSJ has been told.
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NewsCigarette vending machines ban to improve health in children
A ban on vending machines selling tobacco that comes into force in England today will reduce the access children have to cigarettes and cut down the number of young smokers, it is hoped.
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NewsNHS 111 to go nationwide
The non-emergency telephone number aiming to provide around-the-clock access to NHS services is to get a national roll out.
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NewsAmbulance services strive to avoid A&E
Two of England’s ambulance services have reduced the proportion of patients they convey to accident and emergency departments by more than 7 per cent since April, new figures from the Department of Health show.
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NewsNumber of trusts predicting 2011-12 deficit trebles compared with last year - DH report
The number of NHS trusts predicting a full year deficit at the end of the first quarter of 2011-12 trebled compared with the same period last year, new Department of Health figures show.
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NewsCCP puts patient benefit over patient choice in acute merger
The Co-operation and Competition Panel has advised, for the first time, that a merger between two rival providers can go ahead, because the potential benefits outweighed the reduction in patient choice.
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NewsRCN agrees not to ballot over pensions immediately
The Royal College of Nursing has decided not to ballot members for industrial action for now, but has warned it could do so if pensions talks fail.
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NewsThird of CCGs reluctant to become statutory bodies, PM warned
The prime minister and health secretary have been warned that a third of clinical commissioning groups would rather not become statutory bodies because of the burden of bureaucracy involved.
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NewsHealth Bill risks 'weakening ministerial accountability' - Lords committee
The Lords committee which reviews the constitutional implications of new legislation has said the Health Bill poses a risk that “individual ministerial responsibility to parliament will be diluted or that legal accountability to the courts will be fragmented”.
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NewsNHS costs cut by smoking schemes, study shows
A new report which found that tobacco control programmes can cut health care costs has been hailed by anti-smoking campaigners Ash Scotland.