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Hull trust to buy Nuffield hospital
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals trust is buying the private Nuffield hospital at Cottingham to improve facilities for ear nose and throat and breast surgery patients.
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£1m for dementia research in Scotland
A new dementia clinical research network for Scotland is being created with £1m funding from the Scottish government.
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NHS Employers elects new policy board members
NHS Employers has elected 10 new members to its policy board, along with a new chair and two new vice chairs.
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Audit Commission report highlights clinical coding errors
Errors in payment by results coding are throwing off payments by around 5 per cent.
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£1.75bn surplus down to strong financial management, says DH
The Department of Health says its predicted surplus of £1.75bn in 2008-09 shows strong financial management by the NHS.
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World Health Organisation warning on health inequalities
Social injustice 'is killing people on a grand scale', according to the World Health Organisation.
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30 per cent of consultant vacancies are in London - Information Centre
Vacancy rates among consultants in London now account for nearly 30 per cent of all consultant vacancies in England.The figures are part of the NHS vacancy survey published by the NHS Information Centre.
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Surrey is first to agree its integrated care proposals
The first primary care trust to unveil its plans for an integrated care pilot has warned that commissioners will have to overcome existing 'anomalies' to make the initiative work.
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Entrepreneurial GPs are due respect
Sophia Christie's allegations that GPs are 'venal' and 'breathtakingly callous' are unfair. I am a GP of 26 years' standing. I am vice chair of our (large) local medical committee and a board member of our practice based commissioning consortium. I have spent considerable time recently, with a great deal ...
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Entrepreneurial GPs deserve respect
Sophia Christie's allegations that GPs are 'venal' and 'breathtakingly callous' are unfair.
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Dragons' Den inspires trusts
I read with interest the item 'PCT 'dragons' hunt fresh ideas'. Last autumn in South West Essex primary care trust provider services, we launched a 'new innovations initiative' which was based on the TV series Dragons' Den. We established our initiative to help with developing a culture of innovation across ...
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Innovative commissioning leads to cost savings
It is not just surgery where the NHS must speed up its innovation. Imaginative approaches to commissioning exist and early indications from Northern Ireland suggest significant cost savings are available to those prepared to embrace them.
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Hospitals slam water firms over flood response failure
NHS managers affected by last year's floods have accused their water supplier of an 'inadequate' and 'unco-ordinated' response to the emergency.
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BMA presses Hart over primary care funding
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has been urged to ensure primary care is protected as the structure of the NHS in the country is reformed.
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Medics may lose out on job agency rights
Civil servants are trying to amend a legal 'technicality' that grants junior doctors the same rights as employment agency workers.
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Hospitals hold back choose and book slots
A senior Department of Health official has criticised 'significant numbers' of hospital trusts for holding appointments back from the choose and book system.
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Coding errors distort bills for PCTs
Up to £1bn of the bills hospital trusts sent primary care trusts last year could be wrong, tests by the Audit Commission have suggested.
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Probe calls for tariff for fertility services
A Department of Health group probing inequalities in IVF provision is demanding a national tariff for fertility services.
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Monitor rejection highlights areas for improvement
While Monitor did turn down our foundation trust application, this should not detract from the fact that we are already one of the best-performing mental health trusts in the country. We hold 'excellent' and 'good' Healthcare Commission ratings and have a track record of delivery against our targets.
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Drug treatment link to benefits is concerning
Bravo, Paul Hayes, for declaring the direct interest of the National Treatment Agency in the green paper on welfare 'reform'.