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NewsCost of regulation merger reaches into millions
Health regulators have spent millions on failing IT systems, empty offices and redundancy payments.
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NewsSpending pressures spark call for NICE restraints
Primary care trusts could increasingly abandon national treatment guidance unless it is made affordable.
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NewsDiscrimination claims likely to rise in recession, trusts warned
Trusts are being told to expect a flurry of potentially expensive discrimination claims from employees “putting down the markers” in case they are made redundant.
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NewsPCTs lash out over audit use of world class scores
Furious primary care trust chiefs have lambasted the Audit Commission after being marked down in annual reports on the basis of world class commissioning scores. They had been told they would not be judged on the measures.
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NewsReality chips away at NHS's gold-plated pension scheme
The ‘gold plated’ NHS pension scheme swallows 10 per cent of the service’s budget, but even in these tight times reforming it is a challenge no party is keen to accep.
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NewsComplaints against nurses to NMC up by nearly a fifth
There was an 18 per cent increase in the number of complaints made to the Nursing and Midwifery Council from 2007-08 to 2008-09.
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NewsManager jailed for CV lies joins care trust
An NHS manager who was jailed for lying on his CV has started another job at a care trust.
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Cost cap on top managers' pay review
A Department of Health shake-up of NHS senior managers’ salaries will only go through if it can be shown not to push up their overall pay bill.
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NewsCompetition panel to investigate Kingston PCT
The co-operation and competition panel has agreed to investigate allegations of anti-competitive practice against Kingston primary care trust.
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NewsMeasles outbreak sparks vaccination appeal
The worst outbreak of measles in the North East for 20 years has prompted urgent appeals to parents to have their children vaccinated as soon as possible.
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NewsTories claim 'Google health records' are speculation
The possibility that the Conservatives might transfer NHS health records to private sector internet providers such as Google or Microsoft has been dismissed as speculation.
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NewsRoy Taylor appointed flu services director
Efforts to ensure that NHS social care in England can cope with a flu pandemic have been strengthened by the appointment of a director of flu services.
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NewsTories to scrutinise Monitor and CQC in plans to slash quangos
Every quango, including the Care Quality Commission, Monitor and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will be reviewed by the Conservative Party to assess whether it should be closed or scaled back.
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NewsUnions warn that public sector pay cuts could spark strikes
Any attempts to cut the pay of NHS staff and other public sector workers may lead to strikes, unions have warned.
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NewsGovernment will not back private care home protection
Efforts to improve human rights protection for children and the elderly in privately run care homes have been blocked by the government.
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NewsFormer NMC chief executive got £122,000 payoff
Former Nursing and Midwifery Council chief executive Sarah Thewlis received a payoff of nearly £122,000 after resigning last year, according to the regulator’s accounts.
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NewsCouncils told to learn lessons from NHS on recruitment and retention
Councils should learn lessons from the NHS to improve recruitment and retention of social workers, the chair of the government’s social work task force said.
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NewsHealth committee 'saddened' by patient safety failures
NHS boards “too often” prioritise governance, finances and targets above patient safety, the Commons health committee said today.
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NewsCMO reassures over supplies of Tamiflu
The government’s chief medical officer has said that Britain has enough Tamiflu after it was revealed that the number of new swine flu cases could hit 100,000 per day.
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NewsVince Cable: concerned NHS 'going against' joint working with local government
Vince Cable has raised concerns that the NHS is “going against” the drive towards greater partnership with local government.