All Acute care articles – Page 382
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King College foundation trust chief welcomes targets
Bureaucracy and targets are no greater in the NHS than in the private sector, King's College foundation trust's new chief executive Tim Smart has insisted.
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MPs hear Richards review skirted major top-up areas
The government’s decision to allow co-payments for private treatments assumed it is best to make expensive drugs ‘as freely available as possible’, MPs have been told.
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NICE lacks GP input says NHS Alliance
The NHS Alliance has given muted approval to Department of Health proposals to change the quality and outcomes framework GP bonus scheme.
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Row brews as DH rejects blood clots measure
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has written to health secretary Alan Johnson to protest after the Department of Health rejected proposals aimed at reducing deadly blood clots.
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Trust board steps down to make way for FT takeover
The chair and entire non-executive team of a trust have stood down to make way for a takeover by a foundation trust.The Bedfordshire and Luton Mental Health and Social Care Partnership trust board took the decision after agreeing there was no prospect of achieving foundation trust status.
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London acute trusts face shake-up as bosses hand in their notice
London's hospital trusts face a massive management shake-up after the departure of four chief executives.Two of the chief executives - Julian Nettel at Barts and the London trust and Tara Donnelly at West Middlesex University Hospital trust - have resigned amid concerns about the performance of their trusts, which have ...
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Snow hits non-urgent hospital services
Hospitals across the country cancelled non-urgent surgery as they coped with staff absences and increased emergency admissions brought on by heavy snow.
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Trusts 'could opt out of working time directive'
The Department of Health has formally announced it wants trusts to be able to opt out of the European working time directive on behalf of junior doctors.
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Rose Gibb faces agonising wait for court's judgement
Rose Gibb faces an agonising wait to hear if she has won her legal battle with former employer Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.At the end of four days of complex proceedings, Mr Justice Treacy said he wanted to reserve judgement on the breach of contract case.
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Jenny Rogers on being lonely at the top of the NHS
With the new US president having begun his administration, carrying so many of our hopes for change and improvement, it is easy to forget how lonely the role can be.
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Pay-off was not irrationally generous, says Rose Gibb's lawyer
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust was not 'irrationally generous' in giving former chief executive Rose Gibb a £250,000 pay-off, because it took into account all the relevant considerations, a court heard yesterday.Read more on the Rose Gibb case>>
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Rose Gibb’s loss of career was “not a small price to pay”
The government would never have permitted any payment for Rose Gibb beyond her contractual entitlement, her barrister told the High Court today.Oliver Segal was discussing the different options that would have been available to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust if Ms Gibb had not agreed to a negotiated settlement. Among ...
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£250,000 payoff to Rose Gibb was unjustified, court hears
The board of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust acted beyond its powers in agreeing a payoff of £250,000 to former chief executive Rose Gibb, the High Court heard yesterday.
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Edwina Hart steals march on NICE with kidney drug decision
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has angered some local health boards - and stepped further into NHS decision making - by ordering managers to pay for four unapproved drugs for advanced kidney cancer.
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Monitor faces review over private patient income cap
Trade union Unison is to push ahead with its legal challenge to foundation trust regulator Monitor over its interpretation of the private patient income cap.
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Trusts breached patient data protection rules
Two trusts have been found in breach of the Data Protection Act for losing and failing to secure information about patients.
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NHS trust claims crunch was behind surprise deficit
A South Central hospital trust has withdrawn its application for foundation status.
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Providers face hefty bank charges hike
Foundation trusts' bank charges could be as much as quadrupled over the next year as banks hike up the costs of providing overdraft facilities.
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Foundation trust group aims to be 'the elite'
A group of 30 foundation and acute trusts hope to lead on quality and safety by forming a new membership organisation.
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London unveils trauma plans to save 500 lives every year
A consultation is expected to begin tomorrow on the location of London's specialist trauma and stroke centres.