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King's Fund seeks clarity on NHS cost pressures
Pay freezes, the removal of waiting time targets and slowing hospital improvements could reduce the total of NHS efficiency savings needed from £21bn to £14bn, the King’s Fund has estimated.
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NewsPCTs should ‘reinvent’ themselves, says Britnell
Primary care trusts should seek to reinvent themselves as social enterprises providing commissioning support to GP consortia, according to the architect of the world class commissioning programme.
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NewsDon’t sideline sexual health, warn clinicians
Leading figures in sexual health have called on health secretary Andrew Lansley not to ignore the sector.
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NewsConcerns over standard of specialist care
There are concerns over how specialised service commissioning will be controlled at regional level after strategic health authorities and primary care trusts are abolished.
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NewsControversial urgent care unit will not revert to full A&E status
Burnley urgent care centre will not return to full accident and emergency status but will be upgraded to treat more emergency patients.
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NewsNHS IT programme faces further cost cutting
The government is expected to confirm a further scaling back of the NHS IT programme as part of central cost cutting measures announced in the emergency budget.
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NewsGPs ‘won’t guarantee out of hours quality’
Transferring commissioning of out of hours services to GPs will not generate improved quality, primary care representatives have warned. The caution came in the wake of a damning report into the out of hours provider Take Care Now.
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NewsKnown unknowns form the white paper’s core
Last week’s white paper poses many more questions than it answers about how GPs and providers will manage their new freedom. The solution, says Andy McKeon, is to find the right balance between independence and accountability
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NewsNHS Bury appoints former newspaper editor as chair
A struggling primary care trust has turned to a former journalist to help turn it round.
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NewsHard-nosed Lansley will be no ‘softie’ in negotiations
Health secretary Andrew Lansley told MPs he will not be a “softie” when it comes to dealing with GPs, in his first health committee appearance since the election.
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NewsGP consortia will be a ‘minority’ interest
The burden of commissioning will fall on a relatively small number of GPs, a leading member of a right wing medical think tank has warned.
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NewsAccess to kidney transplants 'varies widely across UK'
An organ donation manager has welcomed a study that reveals wide differences in kidney patients’ access to life-saving organs.
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NewsLansley refuses to rule out GP pay rise
The health secretary declined to rule out a pay rise for GPs as he discussed plans to hand them most of the NHS budget.
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NewsInformation revolution 'could confuse public'
The government is being warned its proposed “information revolution” could cause public confusion rather than empowerment if not properly managed.
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NewsEast of England opens up hospital quality figures
A strategic health authority has published hospital trusts’ performance against dozens of quality indicators on the internet.
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NewsCentralising stroke services improves care, says NHS London
The centralisation of stroke services across London has more than tripled the number of patients receiving life-saving clot busting treatment in just five months, according to latest figures from NHS London.
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NewsExperts respond to new NHS standard measures
The government has set out how NHS standards are likely to be measured in future, with a focus on how well treatments and care are working for patients.
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NewsHealth workers suspended over website use
Health service advice workers have been disciplined for accessing inappropriate websites, it has been revealed.
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NewsWhitehall unlikely to meet saving target
Whitehall departments are unlikely to be able to deliver £35bn of value-for-money savings promised by the end of this financial year, a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.
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NewsEast Sussex chief exec made permanent
East Sussex Hospitals Trust has appointed a chief executive.