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Surrey and Sussex acute plans delayed till 2007
Plans to reshape acute services in Surrey and Sussex will not be revealed until after Christmas amid claims that current plans will not save enough money to bring local health economies back into balance.
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Government remains ever loyal to Evercare
The Department of Health is standing by a scheme to keep frail and elderly patients out of hospital, despite a critical study which cast doubt on the model's effectiveness.
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Balance shift tariff pledge
The next 12 months will be a 'difficult' time for the NHS as it tries to get to grips with a tariff system that is still 'unbalanced', the NHS chief executive has admitted.
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NHS vs independents: the book
For the first time patients will be able to compare NHS services to those offered by independent providers in an updated choice manual to be published this week.
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Competing commissioners ruled out
The government has no plans to introduce competition between NHS commissioners, the prime minister's health adviser told the NHS Alliance conference.
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Potential conflicts investigated
The Department of Health is 'constantly' checking for conflicts of interests arising for firms such as McKinsey hired to give the government advice, MPs heard last week.
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Two-year turnaround visits likely
Some turnaround teams sent in to trusts could be there for up to two years, the head of the NHS has admitted to MPs.
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PCTs want new look at politics
The relationship between the NHS and politicians needs to be 'redefined', according to an NHS Confederation poll of primary care trust managers.
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Doctors agree to take policy bull by horns
Senior doctors are planning to develop their own policy framework for the future of the NHS, as part of an attempt to re-engage clinicians with the changes being made to the health service.
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More choice on food for Scottish patients
Scottish hospitals are offering patients more choice of food but are still not doing enough to make sure their nutritional needs are met, a watchdog said last week.
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Arresting idea as community leaders swap jobs for health
A primary care trust chief executive is taking part in a job swap with the local police chief as part of a collaboration aimed at improving healthcare in the area.
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Year of 'real change' is 2008, says DoH's Cash
The NHS can look forward to a 'relatively stable' 2007-08 before moving into a 'transformational year' in 2008-09, according to Department of Health director of provider development Andrew Cash.
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Anger over high pay at CPPIH
Patients' representatives have expressed outrage at the £500,000 combined salaries of the senior management team at the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health. They say CPPIH should be disbanded and the money spent on local initiatives.
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United Lincolnshire trust non-execs angry at 'shoddy' treatment
Two non-executive directors have spoken out after they and five others resigned from a trust board - leaving just the chair and executive members in place.
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Blair asked to intervene as PCT slashes budget by £25m
A council leader has called on the prime minister to stop a primary care trust cutting its budget by £25m. Mr Blair was dragged into the row after the leader of Brent London borough council threatened to refuse to accept any attempt to shift work from healthcare to social services.
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Operating framework: prepare for worst case, trusts told
Next year's operating framework places a new accent on planning for worst-case scenarios and allowing 'headroom' for change.
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Media watch
'Researchers have found that the 29 primary care trusts in surplus in 2004-05 were mainly in inner-city areas'
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NPSA 'struggling' with adverse incident reports
The troubled National Patient Safety Agency is 'struggling' to cope with the massive number of reports it receives from trusts, the chief medical officer has revealed.
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Appleby: acute trusts should be ashamed
National mental health director Professor Louis Appleby has said some acute trusts should be 'ashamed of themselves' for relying on mental health trusts to bail them out of financial trouble.
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Michael White on politics
'Does the first glimpse of the new, kinder Tory health policy amount to much? Blair didn't think so'