All Health Service Journal articles in 1 November 2012
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HSJ Local
'Agreed resignations' to cost Birmingham and Black Country clusters £11m
WORKFORCE: The Black Country and Birmingham and Solihull primary care trust clusters have announced they will spend £11m on voluntary redundancies.
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Comment
Readers' letters - 1 November
Checks in place ensure over-the-counter inhalers are safe; and why is no one holding commissioners to account over abuse in care homes?
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HSJ Knowledge
Embracing an era of technology
Overcoming the barriers to new technology is a cultural, people-based challenge
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News
Private providers see 11 per cent growth in NHS elective work
The number of NHS-funded elective procedures carried out in the private sector rose 10.5 per cent last year, NHS Information Centre data shows.
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News
Hospital admission rise 'due to fragmentation' - report
A significant rise in hospital admissions in recent years is largely due to fragmented health and social care services, according to a think-tank.
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News
HSJ Briefing: General practice service and policy - summary
Ie look at the growing pressure for general practice to meet rising NHS demand. Policy direction focuses on local commissioning board teams and CCGs working on a slow but steady path of improvement
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News
HSJ Live: rolling news 1.11.12
Rolling coverage of today’s health news including official figures showing a large rise in the number of NHS operations carried out privately.
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HSJ Knowledge
Why pharmacies must think big
If pharmacists fail to grasp the opportunities before them, someone else will
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HSJ Knowledge
Mission shows what's possible
James Illman was given a unique insight into British healthcare technology after joining a government-backed trade mission to Boston, Massachusetts.
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HSJ Knowledge
Hitting new heights
A year on from its introduction, the chief resident programme at Cambridge University Hospitals is being expanded, write Jessie Welbourne and colleagues.
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Comment
Sally Gainsbury: to have and have not
Commissioners dream of stockings bulging with giant recurring uplifts
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Comment
Savile saga could leave health service in a fix
Do hospitals have legal liability for Jimmy Savile’s actions?
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News
Exclusive: GP practices' huge income variation revealed
Some GP practices are paid substantially more than others, regardless of the number and type of patients they serve, HSJ analysis reveals.
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Leader
Jeremy Hunt: More a Dorrell than a Lansley
The need to assure and reassure is behind the commissioning board’s £12bn budget
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News
Revealed: the cost of standardising practices' core income
Standardising practices’ “core” income would mean a shift in funding worth about a quarter of a billion pounds, HSJ has estimated.
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News
Monitor and DH work on bailout formula
Monitor and the Department of Health are working to devise a formula determining when troubled foundation trusts receive financial bailouts.
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Comment
Our own cardiac arrest
Emergency medicine in the UK is facing its biggest challenge since its inception
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HSJ Knowledge
Campaign aims to get flu shots on target
The flu fighter campaign by NHS Employers wants more staff to get the jab