News – Page 1893

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    Acute and PCT indicators extended

    2007-02-16T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Department of Health want to extend the current 13 quarterly Better Care, Better Value indicators for primary care trusts and acute trusts to 30 from the start of the next financial year.DoH commissioning director Duncan Selbie and NHS Institute chief executive ...

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    Stopping needless operations could save £100m, says London Health Observatory

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Stopping unnecessary operations could save London's NHS almost £100m, according to new research.

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    Trusts poach sexual health funding

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Funds which should have gone to sexual health have been diverted elsewhere in almost two-thirds of primary care trusts, according to a survey by the Terrence Higgins Trust.

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    LINks will fail public, warns CPPIH chair

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Government proposals to make the NHS more accountable to patients will actually exclude the public from long-term decisions worth billions, MPs heard last week.

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    Anger at India outsourcing plans

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    The NHS is to drastically increase the proportion of outsourced financial work carried out in India.

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    Doctors' co-operative set to expand

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Centres for Clinical Excellence (CCE), the healthcare company set up as a doctors' co-operative, is set to become one of the UK's biggest private healthcare players treating NHS patients as it prepares to acquire Nations Healthcare and bids to take over Mercury Health, HSJ has learned.

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    'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.

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    Hewitt: NHS to grow faster than economy

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    NHS funding is likely to increase by at least 3 per cent beyond 2008, the health secretary has hinted.

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    Slow fall on infant mortality

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Infant mortality rates are falling more slowly in poorer areas than in less deprived ones, according to a Department of Health report.

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    More funding for new social enterprises small for side

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Social enterprise organisations are set to receive a further cash injection in the government's comprehensive spending review, HSJ understands.

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    Nurses' skill 'inadequate'

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Trusts could be asked to ringfence some vacant posts for newly qualified workers, under plans being considered by NHS Employers.

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    After Eden, things look rosy in the social enterprise garden

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    With the possible exception of the Houses of Parliament, there are few places you could expect to encounter four government ministers and a member of the shadow cabinet in the space of less than six hours.

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    Burnham plans NHS 60th birthday celebrations

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Plans to mark the 60th birthday of the NHS next year by formalising its core values in a written constitution are to be put to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown by Andy Burnham, the health minister responsible for NHS reform.Mr Burnham said the constitution could include 10 core principles that ...

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    Progress on cancer reform strategy

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    National cancer director Professor Mike Richards has announced progress on the strategy for the reform of cancer services in England.In a letter to the NHS he said that work on the strategy was 'well in hand'. He cited opportunities in new technology and drugs to help people live longer and ...

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    Smoking 'police' given power to fine public

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of council staff are being trained to police the smoking ban in bars, restaurants and shops in England.Ministers have given councils £29.5m to pay for staff, who will be able to give on-the-spot £50 fines to individuals and take court action against premises.They will have the power to enter ...

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    Commissions launch children's injury report

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    The Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission have today launched their Better Safe than Sorry: preventing unintentional injury to childrenreport.The report shows that each year there are approximately two million attendances by children at hospital accident and emergency departments as result of accidents that may ...

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    PCTs failing to take sexual health seriously

    2007-02-15T00:00:00Z

    Government initiatives to make sexual health a priority are not getting through to the frontline, according to a survey published today by sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.The findings show that Choosing Healthmoney intended for sexual health has been diverted elsewhere by almost ...

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    NAO and Dr Foster

    2007-02-14T10:15:31Z

    Your editorial ('Criticism of Dr Foster JV masks the real story about poor data', 8 Feb) portrays the National Audit Office as worrying over a relatively technical issue of competitive tendering when the real story is about the lack of good data in the NHS. This is to misunderstand our ...

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    'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing

    2007-02-14T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.

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    Call to share details on foreign medics

    2007-02-14T00:00:00Z

    The General Medical Council is calling for better information sharing across European economic area countries to stop suspended medics from working in Britain.