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NewsEXCLUSIVE: NHS Employers backs pay freeze
Patient care will suffer unless the NHS pay freeze is extended into a third year, the body representing all major NHS employers is to warn.
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NewsNew FTN chief calls for big cut in commissioner underspends
The new chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network has called for NHS commissioners to significantly cut the proportion of health funding they leave unspent.
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NewsExclusive: South London Healthcare Trust's suitors revealed
Details have emerged of the plans of many of the 39 bodies that have written to South London Healthcare Trust’s special administrator to express an interest in running trust services.
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NewsNHS cuts 'hitting training quality'
Financial pressures on NHS organisations are taking their toll on the training of new doctors, a leading junior doctor has said.
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NewsCancer costs EU £99bn a year
Cancer costs European countries 124 billion euros (£99bn) every year, according to the first estimate of the full economic burden of the disease in the EU.
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HSJ Local
Bolton FT could face £4.5m fine for Clostridium difficile infections
FINANCE: Bolton Foundation Trust could face a £4.5m fine for failing to contain its rate of Clostridium Difficile infections to within planned levels, commissioner board papers state.
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SupplementsHSJ Efficiency Awards 2012
The HSJ Efficiency Awards reward the organisations that have delivered improvements in healthcare efficiency
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NewsA&E performance at its worst for seven years
More trusts failed the four hour accident and emergency target in the first quarter of 2012-13 than in any first quarter since 2004-05, a King’s Fund analysis has found.
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CommentAli Parsa on creating value
How could a group of people who have never built anything before win so much?
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CommentNoel Plumridge: the outsourcers' next big prize
The GP community was always divided about Andrew Lansley’s legislation
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CommentIsn’t it time CCGs owned waiting lists?
It now makes sense for clinical commissioning groups to take the reins from providers
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CommentClunky maths and unfair fines
Antibiotics have saved millions of lives, but they can cause havoc with the delicate balance of gut bacteria
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SupplementsInformation Highways - an HSJ efficiency supplement
This special supplement looks at some of the many ways NHS organisations can help meet their quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings targerts.From improved procurement, to breaking down the barriers to mobile working, via renting out hospital real estate to high street chains, get some practical advice on delivering more ...
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HSJ KnowledgeThe profitability of private patients
NHS private patient units can compete with private hospitals
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NewsGo-ahead imminent for £425m PFI rebuild
NHS North of England this week said it hoped to see final government approvals secured by the end of this month for a £425m rebuild of the Royal Liverpool Hospital, funded largely through the private finance initiative.
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NewsLamb: NHS cannot fund social care reform
Care services minister Norman Lamb has said social care reform should not be funded from the NHS budget because the health service is already under financial pressure.
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NewsNHS Confederation warning over social care funding
NHS leaders have warned the government not to saddle the health service with the costs of a long-term funding gap of £2 billion a year for social care.
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HSJ Local
Regulator steps in at Sherwood Forest Hospitals
FINANCE: Foundation trust regulator Monitor today found Sherwood Forest Hospitals in significant breach of its terms of authorisation following a further deterioration in the FT’s finances.