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HSJ KnowledgeHow to maximise your marginal gains
Disinvestment in services will become more pressing over the next decade but there are tools to help with difficult decisions, say Ric Fordham and Adam Martin
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NewsThe Healthcare Innovation EXPO
Healthcare Innovation Expo 2011 is the premier event for health and social care commissioners and providers. With over 150 seminars, 100 speakers and 250 exhibitors all featuring high impact innovations to improve patient care and productivity, this is your must attend event of the year.
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NewsPCT restricts doctors from making 'expensive, non-urgent referrals' to London providers
A primary care trust has told clinicians it must approve any referrals to London trusts because of the extra expense involved.
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NewsHealth workers snub pay freeze deal
Health workers’ leaders have rejected a two-year pay freeze offered in return for a no compulsory redundancy agreement, it has been announced.
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HSJ Local
NHS Derby City plans 8 per cent reduction to provider contracts
FINANCE: Financial modelling by NHS Derby City has identified a need to reduce 2011-12 contract values by 8 per cent on average across all providers, in order to transfer financial sustainability to GP commissioners from 2012-13.
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NewsNurses cynical about increment freeze offer
More than 80 per cent of nurses believe their trust would fail to honour a proposed deal not to make compulsory redundancies over the next two years if they agreed to forego a pay rise, according to an poll by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times.
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NewsPrice rivalry ‘could raise death rates’
The decision to let NHS hospitals compete with each other on price from next year threatens to harm care and raise death rates, experts warn.
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HSJ KnowledgePatient care from a pathway perspective
Watch HSJ’s free online seminar to discover how commissioning to standard pathways can reduce costs and deliver better outcomes.
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NewsDH 'efficiency drive' produces £162m gift for NHS
Primary care trusts and council social care services will share an extra £162m this year thanks to a Department of Health “efficiency drive”.
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NewsScottish health bodies spent £11m on leasing cars
Scottish health boards and NHS bodies spent almost £11m on leasing vehicles including Jaguars, Mercedes and BMWs last year, new figures have revealed.
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NewsBed blocking 'on the increase'
The number of patients staying in hospital despite being well enough to leave has risen in the last year, according to a survey.
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NewsReview of care for limbless ex-servicemen
A review of how the NHS looks after former British service personnel who lost limbs serving their country has been launched by the government.
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NewsEfficiency drive redirects £162m to frontline services
The Department of Health is to make an extra £162m available for frontline services after a successful efficiency drive, the health secretary has announced.
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NewsNHS 'wastes billions' on procurement
More than £1bn of taxpayers’ money a year is being wasted by NHS managers who spend vastly differing amounts on the same supplies, the head of a government-backed healthcare efficiency drive has claimed.
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NewsChiefs declare support for increment freeze
The first NHS chief executives to publicly support a freeze on pay increments have spelt out why they believe the move is vital to protect services.
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CommentAn austere Christmas for the public sector
There was little Christmas cheer in the approach to the festive season as the media focused on cuts and austerity in the public sector.
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News
Five trusts now predicting year-end deficits
Four primary care trusts and one hospital trust who were predicting year-end surpluses in the first quarter of 2010-11 are now predicting deficits.
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NewsNHS 'wasting' millions on expensive insulin
Prescribing an expensive form of insulin against NICE guidance is causing the NHS to waste tens of millions of pounds every year, it has been revealed.
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NewsLevy on trusts to replace central NHS training funds
The £5bn central education and training fund will be replaced with a levy on NHS providers, under government proposals announced today.
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NewsPCT U-turns on plan to slash charity funding
A primary care trust has reversed a decision to cut funding to nearly 20 local charities after its strategic health authority agreed to provide short term financial support.