All Finance articles – Page 488
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HSJ Knowledge
Illegal immigrants and the NHS - unfinished business
The NHS's duty to illegal immigrants is no simple matter, as David Lock explains
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News
HPA warning on sexual health target
Increasing pressure on sexual health services could undermine progress towards the target of ensuring patients have access to a genito-urinary medicine clinic within 48 hours by 2008.
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News
Reforms hitting children's surgery, says royal college
Competition between hospitals is damaging the collaboration needed to provide better children's surgery, the Royal College of Surgeons has warned.
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News
Clarity needed on 'stealth' social enterprise bodies
Social enterprises working in the health service are becoming unaccountable and bureaucratic as they move away from their community-focused roots, academics have warned.
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News
Contract dispute could drive wedge between GPs and PCTs
Moves to change the terms of GP contracts in Suffolk could spark 'ructions' between primary care trusts and GPs across the country.
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News
Dementia services begin long journey out of the dark ages
With an ageing population and fragmented care, dementia services face pressure to get their house in order. Daloni Carlisle reports on the difficulties they must overcome
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News
Aborted PFI could 'end up in court'
The collapse of a private finance initiative worth more than £900m could see both sides fighting in court to recover money.
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News
Cash not the secret to hitting 18-week target
Trusts do not need major investment to achieve the 18-week waiting-time target, a study has found.
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HSJ Knowledge
Foundation trusts: understanding the private patient cap
Legislation governing how many private patients foundation trusts can take on can present challenges for trusts wishing to carry out more private work. Trevor Blythe explains the rules
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News
David Lawrence offers some words of advice to Mr Brown
'Yes, Mr Brown, as you well understand, the NHS is a business operation in that it is an input-output system with desired outcomes'
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News
Monitor to government: do not let foundation trusts slip
The chair of foundation trust regulator Monitor has fired a warning shot at the new government, telling ministers not to 'pull back' from healthcare reform to try to 'control' the system from the centre.
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Comment
It's a question of trust: will the new ministers devolve power?
'Central control is a far more natural response from Brown than trusting local freedom and competition'
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News
English GPs top earnings table despite lower rise
English GPs earned more than their counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in the first year of the new contract - despite getting the lowest increase.
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Comment
Ringfencing is only a short-term cash fix
'Local flexibility is a principle that needs defending. Ringfencing is only convenient so long as the political wind is blowing in your direction'
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News
Donaldson warns off budget raiders
The chief medical officer has pledged to clamp down on 'smash and grab raids' of public health money.
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News
PCT set for community cash boost
Liverpool primary care trust is to take forward plans to bring substantially more care into the community.
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News
MPs attack £12m 'back-room' deal
The Department of Health has been slammed by the Commons public accounts committee for 'pursuing a back-room deal' with healthcare information analysts Dr Foster.
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News
£1m pay-off for former SHA chief
A former strategic health authority chief received a pay-off of nearly £1m when he took early retirement from his now defunct employer.
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News
Sure Start failing to reach out to disadvantaged
Only one-third of Sure Start children's centres visited by the National Audit Office were proactively seeking out the most disadvantaged families in their areas, according to a report by the Commons public accounts committee.
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News
Foundation trusts deliver real results, says report
A new report by the Foundation Trust Network says financial freedoms and better governance arrangements in NHS foundations are delivering real results for patients.