All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 4
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Hewitt has no 'vested interest' in approving reconfigurations
Patricia Hewitt does not have a 'vested political interest' in settling reconfiguration rows in favour of trusts, the health minister responsible for patient involvement has insisted.
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Infant mortality highest in deprived areas, finds research
Primary care trusts in London must work harder to reduce the number of infants who die within their first year of life, the London Health Observatory has warned.
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Hospices face losing special fee arrangements
Hospices have complained they will be disadvantaged by the Healthcare Commission's decision to remove their special status and make them pay the full cost of regulation fees.
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Call for NHS input into new assessments
The Audit Commission has called on the NHS to help shape the way. it carries out comprehensive. area assessments, which are set to replace comprehensive performance assessment for local government from 2009.
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Primary care trusts told to fill Atos gap
NHS providers could struggle to fill the gap left by the collapse of a £257m diagnostics contract.
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Trusts told to stop attacking each other
The primary care trust network has urged trusts to move on from blaming each other after PCTs came under attack from their acute peers.
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DoH will not limit private audiology
The Department of Health is refusing to bow to calls to limit private sector provision of audiology services.
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Nurses ready to strike over pay award
Nurses have said they are prepared to strike over this year's pay award.
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Baby Boomers strain services
The pressure of an ageing population will compel governments around the world to change the funding of public services, according to a new study from consultants Deloitte.
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Lord Hunt back at DoH in ministerial shake-up
Former junior health minister Lord Hunt has returned to the Department of Health as a minister of state.
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Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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Revealed: what makes doctors go bad
Ninety per cent of badly performing doctors have a 'learning deficit', new research into their behaviour concludes.
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Hewitt vows to end mental health 'bail-outs'
Patricia Hewitt has pledged that mental health trusts will no longer have to 'bail out the overspenders' in the acute sector.
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'Balance right' on revised mental health bill
The government is digging its heels in over the Lords' amendments to the Mental Health Bill.
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LINks face uphill battle on recruitment
Local involvement networks will struggle to recruit members, patient and public involvement forums have warned.
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Trust fights on in battle to expose 'mole'
An NHS trust's seven-and-a-half-year legal fight to uncover the mole who leaked details of Moors Murderer Ian Brady's treatment while on hunger strike is to continue, despite estimated costs of over £1m.
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Former chief exec calls for more private beds for children
Commissioners should make greater use of the independent sector to stop children from being placed on adult mental health wards, a former mental health trust chief executive has said.
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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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Workers set to benefit from trust pay blow
A trust has been forced to boost the wages of its maintenance staff in a landmark case affecting nearly 10,000 workers across the country.
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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.