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NewsOpen for entry: HSJ Awards 2012
The healthcare industry’s most coveted awards are now caling for entries into 18 key categories across the health service.
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HSJ Local
Seven day service for Lincolnshire stroke patients
STRUCTURE: Therapy services for stroke patients in Lincolnshire have been extended to work seven days a week.
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HSJ Local
Numbers of women being screened falls in Nottingham
PERFORMANCE: The number of women being screened for cervical cancer has fallen in Nottingham with 186,000 at risk sparking an appeal by hospital bosses.
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NewsHSJ announces shortlist for Efficiency Awards 2012
Health Service Journal has revealed the shortlist for this year’s prestigious Efficiency Awards, recongising and rewarding individuals, teams and organisations who have been successfully driving efficiency forward in the health service.
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NewsSecond death in Legionnaires' outbreak
A second person has died after catching Legionnaires’ disease in the outbreak in Edinburgh, NHS Lothian said.
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NewsNHS finance manager avoids jail over bank cash
A senior NHS manager who wrongly harboured more than £146,000 of public money in bank accounts he controlled has avoided jail.
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NewsNHS 111 roll out delayed
The government has extended the deadline for the roll out of NHS 111 by up to six months following pressure from unions and clinical commissioning groups.
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NewsDeath rate to be used to determine public health funding
Department of Health publishes plans to distribute money according to need
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NewsWatchdog backs merger of Ealing and North West London hospitals
The health service’s competition watchdog has cleared proposals for a merger of NHS trusts Ealing Hospital and North West London Hospitals.
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NewsLansley speech moved to avoid strike clash
Health secretary Andrew Lansley’s speech at the NHS Confederation conference has been moved forward to avoid a clash with the doctors’ strike.
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NewsAdult social care budgets cut by £890m
Funding reform ‘desperately needed’, warn senior directors
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NewsLansley expects 'nearly all' CCGs to be authorised by deadline
Andrew Lansley has declared that he expects to see close to 100 per cent of clinical commissioning groups fully authorised by next April.
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NewsGPs 'absurd' to walk away from CCGs over pensions
Andrew Lansley has claimed it would be “absurd” for GPs to walk away from clinical commissioning groups because they were angry over the government’s refusal to improve its pension offer.
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News'Budget for health' to set out future ambitions
Andrew Lansley hopes to establish an annual “budget for health” which will become the parliamentary set piece debate on the service.
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NewsLansley: management cuts to slow after 2012
Aggressive cost saving will mean new NHS organisations will not have to make further deep cuts in management and administration spending from next year, Andrew Lansley has revealed to HSJ.
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NewsMid Staffs recommendations unlikely to clash with policy
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has told HSJ that he is “confident” most of the recommendations of the inquiry into care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust will be “delivered within the legislative framework we’ve got”.
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NewsIn-house consultancy saves NHS £7.1m in fees
The NHS’s in-house consultancy says it saved the service an estimated £7.1m in consultancy fees in 2011-12.
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HSJ Local
Sussex neuro centre gains charity accreditation
PERFORMANCE: An independent specialist neuro rehabilitation centre in Sussex has received charity accreditation for its services.
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News£19m pledged for NHS workers to run mutuals
An extra £19 million has been announced to fund doctors, nurses and other health workers who want to take over the running of NHS services in England.
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NewsExclusive: Monitor to launch major review of barriers to NHS competition
Future “sector regulator” for healthcare Monitor will tomorrow issue a call for evidence for a major review of all barriers to a “level playing field” for competing providers of NHS-funded healthcare, HSJ has learned.