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NewsMental health moves in public health white paper welcomed
Measures in the public health white paper to promote mental well-being have been welcomed by leading psychiatrists.
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NewsHSJ Award 2010 winners announced
In the toughest year for the NHS for over a decade, the HSJ Awards have proven once again that the service remains a centre of excellence.
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NewsFinance special report: No time like the present
HSJ examines the financial demands on NHS managers, including shared decision making to deliver higher quality services, successful service design, the emergence of commissioning consortia and the opportunities for outsourced expertise.
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NewsTreasury 'Icy cold wind' may end GP independence, says NHS medical director
Taking on commissioning budgets may force GPs to give up their historic independence and potentially integrate with secondary care, the NHS medical director has suggested.
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NewsAshford achieves foundation status, as Royal Free starts application
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals Trust has been authorised to become a foundation.
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NewsDH backs plan to award 5.3 per cent pay rises
The Department of Health has written a detailed analysis in support of plans to award lower paid staff pay rises of up to 5.3 per cent, amid growing concern that the NHS paybill is unsustainable.
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NewsGovernment 'tinkering' with alcohol tax criticised
The government has been accused of “tinkering at the edges” over plans to tackle problem drinking by driving up taxes on super-strength beer and lager.
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Call to link executive pay to staff levels
A review of fair pay in the public sector has suggested top executives should no longer be paid more than 20 times the wages of other staff.
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NewsPublic health white paper stalls on handover to councils
The government has confirmed that public health funding is likely to be around £4bn, but has delayed shifting responsibility for local public health spending to councils until at least April 2013.
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Lack of clarity on GP role in public health
The public white paper lacks clarity on several crucial issues, both the NHS Confederation and the BMA have said.
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NewsPublic health drive starts with NHS staff
NHS Employers has pledged to continue to work in improving the health of the NHS workforce as outlined by the public health white paper.
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NewsPublic health faculty in resource warning
New public health services must be properly resourced and staffed if the white paper is to achieve its aims, a leading expert has said.
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NewsEx-RCGP chair to head new health inclusion board
Former chair of the Royal College of GPs Steve Field is to head a new “health inclusion board” with goals outlined in the public health white paper.
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NewsFew surprises in public health white paper
Andrew Lansley has unveiled the public health white paper saying it goes further and faster in tackling causes of premature death and illness and reducing health inequalities.
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NewsSpeech therapy saves NHS £13.3m a year
Every £1 invested in speech and language therapy for stroke patients with swallowing problems – dysphagia – generates £2.3 in savings through avoided chest infections, a report shows.
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NewsNHS Haringey and Great Ormond Street end contract
NHS Haringey, one of the organisations at the centre of the Baby P case, has said it needs a new provider of children’s community health services after Great Ormond Street Hospital opted not to renew its contract with the primary care trust.
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NewsIncrease in assaults on NHS workers
There was an increase in physical assaults on NHS staff last year, with almost 57,000 incidents taking place, latest figures show.
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NewsMaternity units may close, despite pre election pledges
The controversial closure of three maternity units in Greater Manchester looks set to go ahead – in spite of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s personal intervention in the case in the run up to the general election.
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NewsLondon to fund development pot for pathfinders
NHS London is to pay pathfinder commissioning consortia £1.66 per registered patient to support their development.
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NewsPCT grip on local priorities being 'eroded'
The PCT Network has called on the Department of Health to reduce the “central direction” of primary care trusts to a minimum in the operating framework.