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NewsPortsmouth City PCT faces external investigation
A strategic health authority is considering using its strongest powers against a primary care trust, rated as “underperforming” for the seventh consecutive month.
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NewsHealth bill announced in Queen's speech
The Queen’s speech has prepared the way for a new health bill, the draft text of which was leaked two days ago.
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NewsNHS targets may be scrapped within weeks
The new government is considering scrapping controversial waiting times targets this year, HSJ understands.
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NewsScotland hits record cancer referral rate
A record number of cancer patients in Scotland are being treated within two months, official statistics show.
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Lean thinking in the NHS
Despite having been in the service improvement business for years, I choose now to finally really get my head around “lean thinking” as inspired by Taiichi Ohno’s work on the Toyota production system.
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Carbon reduction
The Carbon Reduction Commitment is a mandatory, auction-based emissions trading scheme, which came into effect on 1 April 2010.
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NewsTories accuse Labour over mixed sex wards
The Conservatives have accused Labour of failing to meet targets for mixed sex hospital wards.
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Clinical dashboards
Good quality information is known to be a driver of performance among clinical teams and vital to ensuring the right services and best possible care is provided to patients.
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NewsSacked NHS chief launches unfair dismissal claim
An NHS chief executive sacked for swearing too much at work is launching a claim for unfair dismissal, he has confirmed.
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: how green are your care pathways?
The way forward in carbon reduction is through creative commissioning for pathways of care. In the final part in our series on sustainability, Jennifer Taylor looks at how the new approach is gaining momentum
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Carbon Reduction Commitment
Dave Covell provides an update on the recently implemented Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme
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NewsCancelled NHS operations reach new high
The Scottish Conservative Party has said cancelled operations have risen to an all time high in Scotland since it became a devolved nation.
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NewsWest Midlands fares worst on patient dignity target
NHS West Midlands has mounted a robust defence of trusts in the region which failed to meet the target on delivering same sex accommodation.
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NewsLib Dems unveil manifesto with pledge to cap managers' pay
The Liberal Democrats have unveiled their manifesto, pledging to protect frontline NHS services by slashing management budgets, scrapping strategic health authorities and capping managers’ pay.
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NewsLabour pledges personalised care revolution
Personalised healthcare tailored to the needs of individual patients is a centrepiece of Labour’s general election manifesto.
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NewsKing's Fund: NHS needs rapid change to meet challenges
The NHS has addressed many of the challenges it faced in 1997 but needs to change rapidly to meet the big challenges it now faces, according to a major review of the NHS in England by the King’s Fund.
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: keep NHS procurement carbon conscious
Procurement is the NHS’s biggest carbon producer but this trend can be countered, says Jennifer Taylor
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NewsMonitor increases FTs' efficiency target
The foundation trust regulator Monitor has issued revised financial guidance to providers warning they may need to cut more costs than previously expected.
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HSJ KnowledgeNHS sustainability: how to achieve long term efficiencies
Moving care closer to home and focusing on prevention are ways to achieve long term efficiencies, says Jennifer Taylor
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HSJ KnowledgeSustainability: how to cut costs and your carbon footprint
NHS organisations with sustainability policies may be helping to save the planet but closer to home they are also driving performance, says Jennifer Taylor