All Finance articles – Page 491
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Stephen Thornton, chief executive, Health Foundation:The recommendations are all very good and all very worthy but are about what government should do to the health service.They are not asking how you bring about the culture change needed to get clinicians thinking about how they can improve the quality and safety ...
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£10m boost for occupational health
Health minister Ivan Lewis has announced £10m of capital funding to finance new NHS Plus demonstration sites to improve the occupational healthcare services offered to small and medium sized businesses.
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Media Watch: immigrants in the news
'Immigrants with cancer 'could swamp the NHS',' read The Daily Mail's headline. It quoted Lancet Oncology editor David Collingridge, who said so many East European migrants have arrived in Britain in recent years that the NHS may struggle to cope with the subsequent rise in cancer patients.
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Mixed results for public health
The Department of Health's performance chief has fired a warning shot over public health targets following 'mixed' quarterly results in sexual health and stop-smoking services.
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Tories' public services group calls for beefed up CMO role
The Conservatives' public services policy group has made fresh calls to strengthen the role of the chief medical officer.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental Health Barometer August 2007
Mental health chief executives are feeling less confident this month. Almost all scores are down.
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Phil Kenmore on Agenda for Change
With a lack of focus on underlying behaviours, Agenda for Change cannot deliver long-term results, says Phil Kenmore
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Doctors' leaders question NHS surplus
The British Medical Association has questioned how the NHS in England has achieved a £983m surplus for the end of the financial year.
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Inequalities masked at local level
Progress made towards the national target to reduce health inequalities is masking the areas that are facing the worst problems, public health experts have warned.
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Misleading forecasts could spell disaster
'Chief executives and others must encourage openness and transparency in financial reporting'
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Suffolk delays terminating PMS contracts
Suffolk primary care trust has said it will delay terminating the personal medical services contracts it holds with 46 practices in the area.
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Doctors may strike over contract delays
Twelve and half thousand senior hospital doctors may take strike action after walking away from negotiations over their contract, complaining the government is taking too long to sign it off.
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Noel Plumridge on ambition to expand
'Market advocates praise choice, but those within them do their best to create a monopoly'
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NHS forecasts £983m surplus
The NHS is forecasting a surplus for this financial year, with the majority of NHS trusts in balance, the Department of Health has said.
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Finance chiefs confess to burying bad news
Trust chief executives and finance directors are reluctant to publish bad financial forecasts for fear of losing their jobs.
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Green shoots of recovery
In the last of our series on organisational turnaround, we peer through the breaks in the clouds around two once-troubled trusts
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Dental association calls for amnesty on financial penalties
The British Dental Association has called for an amnesty on financial penalties against dentists who failed to complete their units of dental activity target in 2006-07.
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Introducing direct payments into care homes
Direct payment budgets could be extended to people living in care settings to allow residents to make individual choices from healthcare services available to them, says David Janner-Klausner
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Foundation trusts report £198m surplus
Foundation trusts reported a £198m surplus at the end of quater one, the regulator Monitor has said.
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£73m fund for social enterprises
A £73m investment fund for social enterprises has been opened today by the Department of Health.