All Facilities management articles – Page 47
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LIFT-funded buildings pass 100 mark
The opening of three new health centres this week through the local improvement finance trust has pushed the NHS above the 100 mark in its LIFT-funded building programme.The 100th building to open was the £3m Longview Drive primary care centre in St Helens and was followed by two more in ...
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Lansley slams PFI 'lunacy'
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has described hospital private finance initiatives as 'complete lunacy' after government responses to his parliamentary questions showed that the NHS will pay private sector contractors £53bn for hospitals worth only £8bn. Mr Lansley is calling for a 'fundamental review' of how the NHS accesses capital ...
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Child visitors face ban
A hospital trust has drawn up contingency plans to severely restrict child visitors if patients are at risk from diarrhoea and vomiting bugs.
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HSJ Knowledge
Positive risk-taking to end long-term stays
Mental health: Look Ahead Housing and Care
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Comment
Robert Greene and Paul Ray on foundation finances
Patient choice presents particular challenges for foundation trusts, so good revenue forecasting is needed, say Robert Greene and Paul Ray
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Health secretary agrees to further consultation on critical care site
A row over the location of a new critical care hospital in south London has gone back to square one after NHS London persuaded the health secretary to re-open consultation.
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Blair at Labour conference: 'Rebuilding not privatising'
The NHS is being rebuilt not privatised, Tony Blair told his last Labour party conference as prime minister.
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Hospitals told to focus on food and cleaning
Health minister Andy Burnham has told hospitals to focus on food and cleaning if they want to win good reviews from patients.
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Six new hospitals approved in £1.5bn PFI spree
The government has approved six NHS private finance initiative hospital developments worth almost £1.5bn.
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Warning on Agenda for Change
Health minister Lord Warner has written to all senior managers in the NHS expressing concerns at the slow progress of ensuring contract staff in catering, cleaning and ancillary services are on contracts that give them parity with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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Ballot on NHS Logistics strike
Workers at the NHS Logistics Authority, which supplies the NHS across England, are set to ballot for strike action in opposition to the awarding of a £4bn supplies contract to Texas-based company Novation and its German partner DHL
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Cash-strapped Pennine trust to sell off HQ in financial recovery drive
Pennine Acute Hospitals trust is set to sell off its headquarters in a bid to slash a £21m debt.The trust has brought in a financial recovery programme which will also see the loss of over 300 posts and 250 beds. Managers are hoping to raise 'significant capital' from the sale ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ supplement: better buildings
Just four years since its inception, ProCure21 is helping over 130 trusts to deliver new facilities. It has 72 schemes on site and 97 in planning. Already, 92 schemes worth £369m have been completed.
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NHS plan estates target abandoned NEWS
HSJ EXCLUSIVE Next month's goal to cut maintenance backlog by a quarter was facing failure
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Phoenix breathes new life into mental health estates
Published: 18/11/2004, Volume II4, No. 5932 Page 9
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NHS Estates set to review infection guidance
Published: 06/05/2004, Volume II4, No. 5904 Page 5