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MPs claim temp nurses mask poor management
Managers are attempting to 'mask' poor workforce planning by over-spending on temporary nurses, according to an influential MP.
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BBC-style management could save NHS from 'political ice'
The NHS is unsustainable in its present form and should be run independently, according to a Nuffield Trust report.
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Mental Health Alliance divided over clinical roles
The Mental Health Alliance, which was formed to oppose the Mental Health Bill, has split following a dispute over planned changes to staff roles.
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NAO names inefficient prescribers in £200m drug waste
GPs squander more than £200m a year on overpriced prescriptions and drugs that go unused, a National Audit Office report has revealed.
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NHS chief warned over 'damning' contract report
MPs are preparing a scathing indictment of the consultant contract, NHS chief executive David Nicholson was warned this week.
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Director general defends IT plan and blasts critics of the electronic patient record
Critics of the electronic patient record have been branded 'privacy fascists' by the Department of Health director general of IT.
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DoH targets deaths from clots
All hospital patients should be assessed for risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots, an expert working group has recommended.
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Union calls for 'summer of discontent' over pay offer
Unison is to ballot members on industrial action if the government does not improve its pay offer.
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NHS University: 'embarrassing' failure to deliver value for money, says government review
The NHS University, the internal training and education body which cost £72m and was scrapped after less than two years, delivered 'too little too late', according to a scathing report that the government tried to suppress.
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New national IT setback as devolution is delayed
The national programme for IT is facing another setback as it emerges that plans to enhance the role of strategic health authorities have been delayed.
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A third of London's PCTs get 'red light' on risk from SHA
Almost a third of London's primary care trusts have been classed as high risk because of their financial situation, governance ability and quality performance under NHS London's new monitoring regime.
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Workforce SHAs' failure to plan staff numbers has been 'disastrous'
Workforce planning is at risk of being abandoned by NHS chief executives burdened with 'excessive' Whitehall demands, a damning report has found.
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Experts split over Tories' big idea for public health
The Conservative Party's plan to transform public health by creating independent local budgets has divided experts.
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Brown budget 2007: HSJ report
In his 11th budget speech today chancellor Gordon Brown announced the 'biggest cash increase ever' in the NHS.
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IPPR: honesty over unsafe hospitals is the best policy
A 'conspiracy of silence' over the poor safety of hospitals is fuelling opposition to reconfigurations, the Institute for Public Policy Research has warned.
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Chiefs reveal frustrations over doctors' contracts in HSJ survey
Most chief executives would cap GPs' pay, abolish clinical excellence awards for consultants and write off historic debts if they had the power.
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Trusts may lose secure hospitals
Control of England's three high-security hospitals could be removed from local NHS control, HSJ has learned.
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Half of ambulance trusts missing response targets
Half of England's ambulance trusts are missing response targets despite a service shake-up designed to improve performance.
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London SHA struggling to cope with junior doctor recruitment
London's strategic health authority has spent millions of pounds and employed hundreds of extra staff to handle the junior doctor recruitment process.
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Healthcare Commission takes a hard line on hospital infection
The Healthcare Commission is to clamp down on superbugs after one in four hospitals admitted they were failing to meet national standards.
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