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£80.4m cost of 8,000 staff hurt at work
Just over 8,000 NHS staff were seriously injured at work last year, figures published in Parliament show.
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Posts left open as national locum shortage takes hold
Leaked Department of Health documents reveal a national shortage of locum hospital doctors, with some trusts reporting they are 'lucky if applicants attend for interview'.HSJ first highlighted the issue last year and the DH insisted as recently as 14 February this year that there was no evidence of a widespread ...
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Tooke calls for urgent action on doctors' role
In January the Tooke report on medical careers was well received. But pressure groups have accused the government of using delaying tactics in its response, reports Ann McGauran
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Doctors 'battered with targets' as pockets 'lined with gold'
Tony Blair's former chief adviser on public service reform has accused the government of 'battering' doctors with targets and 'lining their pockets with gold'.
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Union warns over offensive email activity
NHS organisations need policies in place to deal with staff accessing offensive material on work computers, NHS Employers has said.
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Free parking in Wales will cost trusts £5.4m
Hospital trusts in Wales will lose up to £5.4m per year because the Welsh Assembly government has told them they must stop raising income from car parking.
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Only one in 20 ambulance managers is from minority
Ambulance trusts have emerged as having the lowest proportion of ethnic minority managers of any NHS sector in England, figures obtained by HSJ reveal.
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PCTs cut continuing care packages
More than a quarter of primary care trusts have cut the number of adults they give NHS 'continuing care', despite guidance intended to boost provision.Figures published by the Department of Health show 44 PCTs reduced the number of people to whom they give the care package between April and December ...
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Outcry forces former C diff chief to resign
Ruth Harrison, the former chief executive of C difficile-hit Stoke Mandeville Hospital, has stepped down from an NHS consultancy post in the wake of public outcry.
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No probes into London mental health killings
NHS managers who failed to investigate nearly half of the murders and manslaughters carried out by London mental health patients over a four-year period will not be held to account.
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Surplus forecast by HSJ still on course
The NHS is still on track to make a £1.8bn surplus at the end of this financial year, as first revealed by HSJ.
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ISTC contract guarantees will saddle NHS with a £187m bill
Deals with private contractors have left the NHS facing a hidden 187m bill to buy back some of the controversial independent sector treatment centres, HSJ has learned.
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Credit crunch puts Kent PFI under threat
Plans by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust for a new private finance initiative hospital were dealt a blow this week when the bonds intended to finance the deal were downgraded.
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ISTC contract guarantees will saddle NHS with a £187m bill
Deals with private contractors have left the NHS facing a hidden £187m bill to buy back some of the controversial independent sector treatment centres, HSJ has learned.
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£80m to give elderly homes of their own
Local authorities have been invited to bid for a share of £80m of Department of Health funding to build special housing for older people and people with long-term conditions.The 'extra care housing' will offer greater independence and privacy for those who previously had no choice but to enter nursing homes, ...
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Diabetes nurses could save £100m, study claims
Specialist diabetes nurses could save the NHS £100m by reducing the number of people admitted to hospital, a new study claims.
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Doctors raise concerns over 24-hour licensing
The government must continue to monitor the impact of 24-hour licensing on public health, doctors' leaders have said in the wake of a review of licensing law.
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Charities call for better healthcare for offenders
Too many offenders with mental health problems are going to prison rather than getting the healthcare they need, according to mental health and criminal justice charities.
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Opt-out organ donation under debate
MSPs will today debate the pros and cons of introducing an 'opt-out' system to increase rates of organ donation.
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Changes needed to gastric bleeding practice
The UK Digestive Federation has called for changes in working practices to prevent unnecessary deaths of patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding.