News – Page 1737
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Emma Dent on counting calories
Using the recent anniversary of my birth as an excuse, Mr D and I seized the chance to go for a nice meal surrounded by grown-ups, before the only restaurants we get to patronise are those full of buggies and helpings of organic carrot.
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King College foundation trust chief welcomes targets
Bureaucracy and targets are no greater in the NHS than in the private sector, King's College foundation trust's new chief executive Tim Smart has insisted.
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NHS managers not reaping benefits of Agenda for Change
Managers are still not reaping the benefits promised by Agenda for Change four years after it was introduced, according to the National Audit Office.
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NICE lacks GP input says NHS Alliance
The NHS Alliance has given muted approval to Department of Health proposals to change the quality and outcomes framework GP bonus scheme.
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MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.
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Audit finds Scottish NHS estates in disrepair
The NHS in Scotland should manage its £5bn assets - including land, buildings and equipment - more efficiently, auditors have warned.
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DH drops 'elitist' Top 250 leadership scheme
Plans set out in the next stage review to invest in the top 250 NHS leaders have been scrapped amid charges of 'elitism'.
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Rose Gibb: 'I was hounded, victimised, demonised'
Rose Gibb accused health secretary Alan Johnson of 'hounding' her after the Healthcare Commission published its critical report.
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Rose Gibb's 'irrational' pay-off went unchecked
NHS South East Coast and the Department of Health were aware a pay-off was under discussion with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb - but they failed to intervene to stop it from being signed, a court heard last week.
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Health watchdog handover is on 'red risk'
Crucial staffing and financial decisions regarding the handover from the Healthcare Commission to the Care Quality Commission are still unresolved just two months before the new body takes over.
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Recession puts foundation trust plans at risk
The recession is being cited as a cause for further delays in trusts gaining foundation status.
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Mixed ward target worries
Huge uncertainty exists over whether trusts will be able to comply with health secretary Alan Johnson's new diktat on mixed sex accommodation.
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Non-urgent work called off as snow keeps staff at home
Hospitals across the country cancelled outpatient appointments and non-urgent surgery as they coped with staff absences and increased emergency admissions brought on by heavy snow.
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Dementia strategy will pose workforce challenges
Managers have welcomed long awaited government plans to transform dementia services but want more details on how they will be staffed and assessed.
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Huge bill looms for patient choice information
The health service faces a bill of millions for reminding patients of their legal right to choose their own secondary care provider under the terms of the NHS constitution.
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NHS offers private providers shelter in rough economic seas
Until recently private providers could afford to be choosy about what NHS work they took on. Now, as the economy shrinks, the health service will become a vital source of income. Alison Moore reports
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Council wins grant to investigate inequalities
A council has won a national grant to undertake a five-month inquiry into inequalities in primary care funding, following an HSJ exposé last year.
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Views sought on improving access to dentistry
The team leading an independent probe into variations in access to NHS dentistry is calling for people to come forward with 'thoughts and questions' about the issue.
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NHS links to pharmaceutical industry raise suspicions, RCP warns
The medical profession needs to distance itself from the pharmaceutical industry to restore public confidence in the NHS, doctors have warned.
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Row brews as DH rejects blood clots measure
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has written to health secretary Alan Johnson to protest after the Department of Health rejected proposals aimed at reducing deadly blood clots.