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Providers face hefty bank charges hike
Foundation trusts' bank charges could be as much as quadrupled over the next year as banks hike up the costs of providing overdraft facilities.
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Trusts breached patient data protection rules
Two trusts have been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for losing and failing to secure information about patients.
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PCTs failing to involve public in drug decisions
Primary care trusts are failing to effectively involve the public in decisions over drugs not approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, according to a Picker Institute review.
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Foundation trust group aims to be 'the elite'
A group of 30 foundation and acute trusts hope to lead on quality and safety by forming a new membership organisation.
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Wife of CQC man joins its board
The Care Quality Commission has appointed the wife of its transition director to a board level position as director of engagement.
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NHS Confederation backtracks over SHA claims
The NHS Confederation has been forced to clarify its position on strategic health authorities after one of its senior policy managers last week called for a major rethink of their role under a new regulatory regime.
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Monitor faces review over private patient income cap
Trade union Unison is to push ahead with its legal challenge to foundation trust regulator Monitor over its interpretation of the private patient income cap.
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Survey reveals NHS executives' neglect of future leaders
Senior managers feel too burdened with paperwork to develop the next generation of leaders, with many spending less than a tenth of their time on succession planning, an HSJ survey has revealed.Department of Health workforce director general Clare Chapman last week toldHSJ all NHS chief executives should be spending a ...
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Outsourced NHS staff hit by pensions blow
The Department of Health has effectively barred outsourced health service employees from the NHS pension scheme in a bid to cut the government's growing liabilities.
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NHS trust claims crunch was behind surprise deficit
A South Central hospital trust has withdrawn its application for foundation status.
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BMA against more competition
The British Medical Association has vowed to campaign against increased competition and privatisation as the NHS feels the effects of the recession.
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NHS looking across the pond to Obama's cures
In Barack Obama's overflowing in-tray is a file marked 'healthcare'. Michael Macdonnell and Douglas Noble explore how he will increase coverage and control costs and what UK managers should watch
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NHS sets itself difficult targets for greener future
The health service is to set itself up as a trailblazer for public sector sustainability. Ambitious goals ranging from tough carbon-cutting targets to making staff walk and cycle are outlined in the NHS's first carbon reduction strategy, launched on Tuesday by chief executive David Nicholson.
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PCT strategy plans expose the distance to world class
Concerns have been raised over two out of three primary care trusts' strategic plans, the first scores for world class commissioning reveal.
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London unveils trauma plans to save 500 lives every year
A consultation is expected to begin tomorrow on the location of London's specialist trauma and stroke centres.
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David Flory admits Rose Gibb was 'unjustly denied' employment rights
David Flory has admitted in the High Court that Rose Gibb was ‘unjustly denied’ of her right to claim unfair dismissal from her position as chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
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Hospital trusts face fines over mixed-sex wards
Hospitals treating patients in mixed-sex wards will be fined from April next year, health secretary Alan Johnson announced today.A proportion of trusts' payments will be deducted if mixed wards are used other than where there is 'overriding clinical justification'.
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Personalisation patchy says social care inspector
Most social care users are receiving a 'one size fits all' service, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection's final annual report.
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Personalisation patchy says social care inspector
Most social care users are receiving a 'one size fits all' service, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection's final annual report.
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Scotland extends 18 week wait target
Scotland's 18 week referral-to-treatment target has been extended to around 100,000 patients annually who were not previously covered.