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Pension help for volunteers
Health workers who volunteer their skills overseas need not lose out on building their pensions, due to a new government support fund. Patricia Sloan explains
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Rising fuel prices push up healthcare overheads
Sharp rises in oil and food prices are hitting the NHS hard, with energy and catering bills for big trusts in the millions and the situation likely to get worse. Alison Moore reports
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Immigration and healthcare: changes render old picture obsolete
'Super-diversity' of migrants presents major challenges. Jill Rutter argues the government must fully understand who is coming to the UK and ensure the services facing most demand are adequately funded
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Brown rethinks social care policy
Prime minister Gordon Brown has suggested an insurance model may not be a reliable way to fund future social care provision.
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Staff payment blunder at United Bristol Healthcare trust
Hundreds of staff at a hospital trust have been left out of pocket after problems introducing the electronic staff record.
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Hospital franchises - quantum leap
The Royal Marsden is pioneering a satellite cancer unit at another hospital. Will the franchise model play a big part in the era of choice and competition? Helen Mooney finds out
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£50m for productive ward roll-out
Health secretary Alan Johnson has announced a £50m fund to support the national roll-out of the Productive Ward programme.
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Simon Stevens on value for money in the NHS
What is the biggest black box in the NHS? By which I mean, where is the worst ratio of cash to clarity about what taxpayers are getting for their money?
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DH toughens line on GP exception reporting
Primary care trusts must ensure they have a strategy in place on GP exception reporting, a health inequalities official has warned.
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Channing Wheeler's plans for market end rumours of commercial break
Reports of the demise of private sector involvement in the NHS last year were premature, as Department of Health commercial director Channing Wheeler is developing the tools to allow local managers to turn the service into a market. He talks to Sally Gainsbury
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Foundation trust directors earning up to 25 per cent more
Foundation trust finance directors are earning 16 per cent more than their non-foundation trust counterparts, according to a survey that adds to evidence of a growing 'pay gap'.
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Social enterprise investment fund enters round two
The Department of Health has opened the second round of bidding through its social enterprise investment fund.
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NHS Western Isles criticised for financial failings
The Scottish Parliament's audit committee has found serious failings in the running of NHS Western Isles and condemned its persistent failure to put in place adequate financial controls.
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Information Centre report looks at GP pay
The Information Centre for health and social care has published figures that look at the changes in family doctors' pay over time, as well as how pay varies according to factors such as a GP's age and the number of partners in a practice.
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Guidance on residential services for substance misuse
The Department of Health has published guidance on capital development of residential rehabilitation services for drug and alcohol abuse.
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare trust to get help with loan
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare trust is to get £34m in regional NHS cash to help it pay back a £56m loan from the Department of Health.
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NHS constitution should focus on value for money
The NHS constitution should include a financial charter setting out how commissioners must achieve value for money, rather than just a set of anodyne values, a think tank has claimed.
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Scotland's personal care funding gap must be filled
Free personal and nursing care in Scotland needs better funding and planning, says a new report.
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Lib Dems scrap free social care promise
The Liberal Democrats have formally ditched their policy of free social care in England. The party has opted instead for a co-payment system based on the one set out by Sir Derek Wanless for the King's Fund.
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BMA damned by its own staff in leaked survey
The British Medical Association has been labelled 'old-fashioned and change averse' by its own staff in a survey leaked to HSJ.