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Foundation trusts generate £130m surplus
Foundation trusts generated a £130m net surplus for the last financial year although three were shown to be in deficit, according to figures released yesterday.
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Information Centre prepares to expand role
The role of the Information Centre for health and social care in the NHS is set to be stepped up, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has revealed.
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South Staffs adds to foundation acquisitions
A mental health trust has become the second foundation trust to use its independent powers to take over provider services from another NHS organisation.
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Trust offers 6,000 staff voluntary redundancy
Wage slips received last week by almost 6,000 staff at County Durham and Darlington foundation trust also included a letter offering them voluntary severance deals.
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Board papers reveal limited local power on IT priorities
Strategic health authorities will only have limited powers to set local IT priorities, board papers suggest.
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CommentSimon Stevens on Brown's opening salvo
‘Mr Brown has chosen an issue that explicitly requires him to choose sides: patients v professionals’
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Report finds PCTs wanting on gender equality
Primary care trusts are not taking sufficient account of gender when they plan services to meet new laws, a report commissioned by the Department of Health has found.
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Workforce chief to tackle past failures
Many of the NHS's biggest personnel problems should have been tackled years ago, the Department of Health head of workforce has admitted.
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Michael White: media spin
'Judicial review looms on the consultation process and voters don't need media spin to feel cheated'
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Scottish government reverses A&E closures
Two Scottish health boards have been given until the end of the year to come up with revised proposals after the new Scottish National Party government overturned decisions to close accident and emergency departments.
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Call for single sex, drugs and alcohol plan
The government needs a national, cross-departmental strategy to tackle drugs, alcohol and risky sexual behaviour among young people, according to the independent advisory group on sexual health and HIV.
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Gill Morgan on believing in the NHS
'The greatest advocates for the NHS are GP receptionists while the worst are GPs. This is about culture, not money'
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Black marks against Brown in HSJ survey
Fewer than one in three health managers and clinicians believe the NHS is safe in Gordon Brown's hands, according to an HSJ survey.
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Porritt berates NHS over slow progress on sustainable future
The NHS is moving at an 'incredibly sluggish and inadequate pace' to becoming sustainable and environmentally sound, green campaigner Jonathan Porritt has warned.
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Junior doctor campaigners in favour of union to rival BMA
Junior doctors campaign group Remedy UK is considering whether to start its own union to rival the British Medical Association.
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Walker claims admissions of failure show assessment works
Admissions by trusts that they are not meeting core safety, hygiene, training and equality standards show self-assessment works, Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker has said.
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Hunt claims manager power would have hobbled IT plan
The national IT programme would be facing even bigger delays if local managers had been given more control, health minister Lord Hunt has claimed.
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Michael White: the IT programme
'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'
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Managers must dig deep for new skill set
Overcoming complex NHS management challenges - insularity, short-termism and a sometimes crippling hierarchy - will require major changes to the way managers operate, argues Nigel Edwards
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Hewitt slates 'media myths'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt used her speech to the NHS Confederation's annual conference to acknowledge a 'difficult, often bruising' year and to attack media 'myths'.