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NewsBarnett's resignation prompts call for strong NHS Confederation
Managers are urging the NHS Confederation to ensure it provides the health service with a strong, independent voice following the resignation of chief executive Steve Barnett.
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NewsChoice more important to patients than doctors
GPs resistant to offering choice of hospital treatment are underestimating its importance to patients and undermining its ability to improve quality of care.
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NewsTop board members leave NHS London
Two members of NHS London’s non-executive board, including its chair, resigned last week after health secretary Andrew Lansley’s “halt” of its capital-wide reconfiguration programme.
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NewsNICE calls for minimum alcohol pricing
A minimum price should be introduced for alcohol and the government should consider a complete ban on alcohol advertising, health experts said today.
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News‘Patient safety must survive quango cull’
Health Foundation chief executive Stephen Thornton has urged health secretary Andrew Lansley to put patient safety “centre stage” and to “cull [NHS] quangos with care”.
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NewsMonitor chair wants FTs off public balance sheet
Foundation trusts should be freed from one of the shackles put in place during the Labour government’s internal battle over their creation, Monitor’s new chair has said.
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NewsLorenzo goes live at Morecambe Bay
A contentious IT system has gone live at its first trust, officials confirmed this morning.
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NewsScottish patients to be assessed by nurses to increase productivity
Controversial proposals have been announced that will see patients in Scotland assessed by nurses instead of consultants in a bid to achieve targets for NHS waiting times.
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NewsChild asthma drug 'too expensive'
An asthma drug for children will not be made available on the NHS after the regulator ruled that it was too expensive to justify.
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NewsTrust warned over asbestos breach
The Health and Safety Executive has issued an improvement notice to NHS Wiltshire.
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NewsFormer MP appointed as PCT chair
An MP who stood down at the recent election has been appointed chairman of Derby City PCT.
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NewsTranssexual loses NHS breast enlargement legal challenge
A transsexual has lost her High Court battle over the refusal to fund a breast enlargement operation on the NHS.
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NewsSecond London SHA board member resigns
A second member of NHS London’s board has resigned, following health secretary Andrew Lansley’s call for the strategic health authority to “halt” its reconfiguration programme.
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NewsHow does your organisation approach innovation in IT?
HSJ is asking readers how their organisations approach such technologies and whether organisational policies arehelping or hindering NHS innovation.
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NewsCQC loses top directors at time of uncertainty
Two senior members of the Care Quality Commission’s seven-strong board have resigned.
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NewsLondon SHA chair resigns
NHS London’s chairman Sir Richard Sykes has resigned, following health secretary Andrew Lansley’s intervention to “halt” the strategic health authority’s Healthcare for London plan devised by former health minister Lord Ara Darzi.
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NewsConfed ex-chair moved to safeguard money
The NHS Confederation’s recently departed chair has told the Charity Commission the organisation’s financial reserves must not be used to bail out NHS Employers.
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NewsBMA questions 'costly venture' of removing practice boundaries
Removing general practice boundaries will increase bureaucracy and costs at a time when the new government is under pressure to make savings, doctors’ leaders have warned.
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Department of Health in-year costs under pressure
The Department of Health was spared in the chancellor’s £6.2bn in-year cut in public spending outlined on Monday but it is still being required to make significant recyclable savings from its arm’s length bodies and central budgets.
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NewsHSJ Awards increase scope
There are four new categories at this year’s HSJ Awards which opened for entries this week.