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NewsCircle floats on stock market
The independent healthcare company set to run Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust as the first UK hospital franchise was floated last week on AIM, a part of the London Stock Exchange.
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NHS changes could spell new comms burdens
Government plans for a nationwide shared-service communications model for NHS primary care risks wiping out local expertise and increasing burdens on councils, the Department of Health has been warned.
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NewsExclusive: Details of NHS regional tier plan
The NHS is set to form four regional bodies out of grouped strategic health authorities.
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NewsGovernment losing its way over reforms - CBI boss
A business leader has accused the government of “losing momentum” over its public sector reforms, which he said had been “derailed”.
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NewsHealth Bill to be sent back to committee
The government’s proposed changes to the controversial health reforms will be sent back to a committee of MPs next week.
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NewsNegligence payouts soared to £1bn in 2010-11
Clinical negligence claims have cost the NHS £2.6bn over the past three years, with payout costs almost doubling in the past year, latest figures have shown.
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NewsSteve Field warns of clinicians' concerns over health reforms
The chair of the NHS Future Forum has warned that clinicians fear the government’s changes to the Health Bill will slow down the pace of reform in some parts of the health service.
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NewsCommissioning board shouldn’t become ‘greatest quango’ – Nicholson
Sir David Nicholson says he will prevent the NHS Commissioning Board becoming “the greatest quango in the sky” by maintaining an “ambition” for the whole country to be covered by active clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsLansley: 'We want to take people with us'
Concessions in the NHS reforms were made under pressure from the medical professions, health secretary Andrew Lansley admitted in a speech to GPs yesterday.
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NewsNicholson: I feared Lansley’s competition rules
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has confirmed he was against the government’s original proposal for a regulator promoting competition in the NHS, which was dropped this week.
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NewsTrusts face readmissions penalties totalling £600m
Trusts stand to lose an average of 3 per cent of tariff income as a result of penalties for emergency readmissions, analysis gathered exclusively for HSJ reveals.
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NewsOlder women less likely to have breast cancer surgery
Older women are less likely to have breast cancer surgery than those who are younger, research suggests.
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NewsAlan Milburn hits out at NHS reform 'car crash'
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has branded the coalition’s watered down NHS reforms the “biggest car crash” in the service’s history.
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NewsLower qualified pathology workforce ‘could make 25 per cent savings’
The government’s pathology tsar has said the discipline could save 15-25 per cent of its costs by reducing the proportion of highly qualified staff it uses to perform junior tasks.
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NewsRare cancer drugs budget underspent by nearly half
Only 56 per cent of the money allocated for cancer drugs normally unavailable on the NHS was spent in the first six months of a high profile fund, a report has found.
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NewsPFI rethink stalls hospital building plans
Plans to build a number of new hospitals have stalled as trusts await a ministerial decision on whether the government will underwrite private finance initiative deals.
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NewsConsortia rebrand required to 'clearly link' with locality
The creative names chosen by many shadow commissioning consortia – now rebranded clinical commissioning groups – are to disappear under the amendments to the Health Bill.
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NewsFears raised over two-tier commissioning system
The Department of Health must set target dates for handing budgets to local commissioning groups or an unworkable two-tier system will emerge, senior figures have told HSJ.
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NewsMajor power to be focused at centre
Major powers and oversight will now sit with the health secretary, the NHS Commissioning Board and its local arms, under changes to the Health Bill set out by the government this week.
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NewsMore workplace bullying since spending cuts, union claims
Government spending cuts are fuelling workplace bullying and “silencing” people worried about losing their jobs, a union claimed today.