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Trust may take PFI option for 'axed' hospital
A foundation trust which had central funding for a major hospital building plan cancelled last week is looking at alternative ways of financing the project, including private finance.
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NewsHeart of England has new chief
Heart of England Foundation Trust has appointed a chief executive to replace Mark Goldman.
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NewsPCTs lose right to stay as direct providers
The Department of Health has reversed its December decision to let six primary care trusts continue as direct providers of their community services.
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NewsLansley: money is now 'core responsibility' of doctors
Health secretary Andrew Lansley today told the British Medical Association conference that use of resources is a “core responsibility” of doctors.
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NewsNICE publishes first quality standards
Trusts should screen all stroke patients for cognitive impairment within six weeks of diagnosis, according to the first set of quality standards to be published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
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NewsDo not cut specialist roles, warns SHA chief
Specialist members of the NHS workforce must not be sacrificed in order to find efficiency savings, a government advisor and strategic health authority chief executive has warned.
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NewsBMA votes against homeopathy funding
The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for homeopathic remedies to be banned on the NHS and removed from pharmacies where they are for sale as medicines.
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NewsHospital phone costs to be reviewed
The cost of hospital bedside phone and television services will be reviewed by the government amid calls to curb “extortionate” prices, MPs have heard.
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NewsGPs should be given commissioning budgets now
GPs who want them should be given hard budgets now, with the details of national policy filled in later, according to a report from the NHS Alliance.
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NewsSugar banned from hospital vending machines
Sugar has been banned from coffee and tea vending machines in hospitals across Wales as they pose a “risk to health”, according to NHS chiefs.
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NewsForeign doctors 'must speak good English'
Poorly trained overseas doctors who cannot speak good English must not be able to treat patients in the UK, a doctors’ leader has said.
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News'Fundamental weaknesses' in budget spending questioned
MSPs have raised concerns about “fundamental weaknesses” in the way NHS managers are spending their budgets.
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NewsBMA calls for 'forgiveable' loans for graduates
Medical students should be given “forgivable loans”, with their debts repaid if they work for the NHS, doctors said today.
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NewsPCTs to 'road test' direct payments to patients
Primary care trusts in London and Liverpool will be among the first to “road test” direct payments for personal health budgets, care services minister Paul Burstow announced today.
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NewsMP accuses NICE of encroaching on policy debates
The public health watchdog is in danger of becoming a “nanny state monster” as it increasingly makes pronouncements that encroach on other areas of public policy, an MP has claimed.
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NewsBMA warns of 'devastating' cutback costs
The economic crisis could have “devastating” consequences for the NHS, with cutbacks to patient services and redundancies, doctors’ leaders have warned.
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NewsCo-operation not competition best for NHS, say experts
A group of medical bodies, unions and healthcare experts have said if the NHS was run on its founding principle of co-operation rather than competition, it would become more equitable and cost-effective.
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NewsBad practice reporting guide published
A new guide has been made available to employers in the NHS that offers advice on how to ensure staff can report bad practice.
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NewsFT pioneers lifestyle intervention for acute patients
A foundation trust has begun a service targeting the lifestyle of its patients while they are in hospital, which it hopes will result in future financial benefits.
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NewsFuture NHS accountability unclear, warns think tank
The head of the King’s Fund Chris Ham has told delegates at the NHS Confederation annual conference that a test of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s commitment to taking the politics out of the NHS could come as the first big crisis.