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'Dangerous' surgeons being put on specialist register
Doctors deemed to be a danger to patients are being put on the specialist register and permitted to work as consultant surgeons, HSJ has learnt.
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Tee calls for cash incentives
NHS Direct could be paid extra to focus on taking calls from patients living in deprived areas or with specific health needs, its chief executive Matt Tee has revealed.
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New super-regulator begins to take shape
Last week the bill that will see the merger of three regulators began its process through the Lords. But there are warnings that detail on the new legislation is sketchy, leaving trusts in the dark over how it will affect them. Charlotte Santry reports
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Monitor fights shy of legal tussles
Monitor will seek to avoid tightening the rules on income from private patients because it fears legal reprisals from foundation trusts, HSJ has learned.
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'Overburdened' staff put mothers and babies at risk
Too little focus on maternity services and safety by some trust boards is leading to problems, an independent inquiry is expected to warn tomorrow.
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Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.
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Johnson said to favour principles over 'rights'
Health secretary Alan Johnson is against a patients' charter-style NHS constitution, HSJ has been told.
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Scottish budgets reworked
Scottish health and well-being secretary Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a new funding formula that will see substantial redistribution of funds between health boards.
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Morgan leaves Confed for Wales
Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.
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Candidates will need a 'cross-NHS view'
NHS Confederation trustees were due to meet this week to begin discussing recruitment for the position vacated by Gill Morgan.
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Staff sacked after offensive image probe
A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.
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Tories attack drug treatment plans
The Conservatives have criticised home secretary Jacqui Smith’s plans to remove benefits for drug addicts failing to comply with their treatment programme, saying they do not go far enough.
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Practice managers seek lobby muscle
GP practice managers are attempting to establish their own national representative body to lobby on behalf of the profession and develop a code of ethics that members can sign as a mark of their professionalism.
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Campaign seeks to boost social care workforce
1 March will see the launch of a nationwide social care recruitment campaign.
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Funding boost for specialist doctors
The Department of Health will more than double the funds available to support the professional development of specialist doctors in 2008/09, health minister Ann Keen has announced.
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NICE issues first smoking cessation guidance
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence today published its first comprehensive guidance on smoking cessation. It says primary care trusts, strategic health authorities and commissioners should set 'minimum realistic targets' and aim to treat at least 5 per cent of local smokers each year.
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Doctor contract ballot launched
The British Medical Association has opened a ballot of staff and associate-grade (SAS) doctors on a proposed NHS contract.
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£3.87m health research funding announced
Health research funding worth £3.8m has been announced by the Welsh Assembly and the Medical Research Council.
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Charity calls for dying-at-home funding
Marie Curie Cancer Care has said it needs more funding to extend a scheme to double the number of people able to die at home rather than in hospital.
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Placebos 'as effective as antidepressants'
Antidepressants are only moderately more effective than placebos for mild depression, according to research carried out at Hull University.The research, published in the Public Library of Science Journal, said that when unpublished clinical trial data was included, their benefit fell below accepted levels.