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Watch: Andrew Lansley at HSJ's 'Delivering a New Approach to Public Health' conference
On the day the government’s radical reforms for the NHS were laid out in full in the Health and Social Care Bill, health secretary Andrew Lansley spoke to the audience at HSJ and LGC’s Public Health Congress about what the changes mean for the health service and the people who ...
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Bill may open up bank lending market to NHS hospitals
Government plans to make it easier for foundation trusts to use their property as loan security may open up a market for private sector lending to NHS hospitals, lawyers say.
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NHS Bradford and Airedale stepping up stress services
WORKFORCE: NHS Bradford and Airedale is extending stress and wellbeing services for staff in response to rising levels of stress-related absenses.
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Barnsley PCT rated well for stroke care
PERFORMANCE: Barnsley PCT has the best stroke rehabilitation care in the Yorkshire and The Humber region, according to the Care Quality Commission.
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Monitor may pay private providers more
Private providers could be paid 14 per cent more than NHS competitors to encourage a fairer playing field, under changes in the Health Bill.
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SNP makes NHS record central to election campaign
The Scottish National Party highlighted improvements in the NHS and promised to protect health budgets in messages to supporters as the party launched its election campaign today.
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Dementia patients 'need more home care'
About 50,000 people with dementia will be forced into care homes early because of a lack of support in their own homes, experts warn.
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Trust ordered to pay £6.4m negligence claim
A boy who suffered severe brain damage during his delivery at an NHS birth centre in Hertfordshire has been awarded £6.4m in settlement of his medical negligence claim.
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Row over ambulance staff wage cut claim
Up to £5,000 a year could be lost from frontline ambulance staff wages as part of a drive to cut costs, union officials have claimed.
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HSJ Local
Infections, screening and activity concern at South Tyneside PCT
PERFORMANCE: NHS South Tyneside is in “performance escalation” with its strategic health authority for Chlamydia screening; healthcare associated infections and (over) activity.
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Infections, screening and activity concern at Gateshead PCT
PERFORMANCE: Gateshead Primary Care Trust is in “performance escalation” with its strategic health authority for Chlamydia screening; healthcare associated infections and (over) activity.
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HSJ Local
Infections, screening and activity concern at Sunderland PCT
PERFORMANCE: Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust is in “performance escalation” with its strategic health authority for Chlamydia screening; healthcare associated infections and (over) activity.
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City Hospitals Sunderland A&E waits concern
PERFORMANCE: Accident and emergency waits at City Hospitals Sunderland Foundation Trust during the second quarter of 2010-11 have been raised as a “particular concern”.
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The provider's essential guide to the Health Bill
As with commissioning consortia, the bill presented providers with a mixture of new freedoms and potential restraints.
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HSJ Local
West Kent PCT likely to cluster with rest of county
STRUCTURE: The primary care trust looks set to cluster with other trusts in Kent as part of plans being drawn up by NHS South East Coast.
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HSJ Local
Northumberland Care Trust records £6.8m overactivity
FINANCE: Northumberland Care Trust has recorded £6.849m acute overactivity so far in 2010-11.
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North Tyneside PCT records £3.5m overactivity
FINANCE: NHS North Tyneside is overperforming by £3.457m on acute activity so far in 2010-11.
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Newcastle PCT records £4m overactivity
FINANCE: Newcastle PCT is recording overperformance of £4.048m with acute providers so far in 2010-11.
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1,600 job cuts criticised by Unison
Union leaders have attacked plans to cut 1,600 posts at a Midlands trust, warning it could lead to a possible repeat of the hospital scandal that led to hundreds of avoidable deaths.
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NHS fraud rises a third in three years
The number of fraud cases investigated in the NHS has risen by 37% in the last three years amid the economic downturn, official figures have revealed.