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Stopping needless operations could save £100m, says London Health Observatory
Stopping unnecessary operations could save London's NHS almost £100m, according to new research.
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Trusts poach sexual health funding
Funds which should have gone to sexual health have been diverted elsewhere in almost two-thirds of primary care trusts, according to a survey by the Terrence Higgins Trust.
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LINks will fail public, warns CPPIH chair
Government proposals to make the NHS more accountable to patients will actually exclude the public from long-term decisions worth billions, MPs heard last week.
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Anger at India outsourcing plans
The NHS is to drastically increase the proportion of outsourced financial work carried out in India.
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Doctors' co-operative set to expand
Centres for Clinical Excellence (CCE), the healthcare company set up as a doctors' co-operative, is set to become one of the UK's biggest private healthcare players treating NHS patients as it prepares to acquire Nations Healthcare and bids to take over Mercury Health, HSJ has learned.
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'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing
Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.
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Hewitt: NHS to grow faster than economy
NHS funding is likely to increase by at least 3 per cent beyond 2008, the health secretary has hinted.
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Slow fall on infant mortality
Infant mortality rates are falling more slowly in poorer areas than in less deprived ones, according to a Department of Health report.
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More funding for new social enterprises small for side
Social enterprise organisations are set to receive a further cash injection in the government's comprehensive spending review, HSJ understands.
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Nurses' skill 'inadequate'
Trusts could be asked to ringfence some vacant posts for newly qualified workers, under plans being considered by NHS Employers.
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After Eden, things look rosy in the social enterprise garden
With the possible exception of the Houses of Parliament, there are few places you could expect to encounter four government ministers and a member of the shadow cabinet in the space of less than six hours.
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NAO and Dr Foster
Your editorial ('Criticism of Dr Foster JV masks the real story about poor data', 8 Feb) portrays the National Audit Office as worrying over a relatively technical issue of competitive tendering when the real story is about the lack of good data in the NHS. This is to misunderstand our ...
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Final confirmation of avian flu virus strain
The Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs has made a final confirmation that the avian flu virus strain found in Suffolk is virtually identical to the virus found in Hungary.Deputy chief vet Fred Landeg confirmed that the laboratory analysis of the Suffolk and Hungary H5N1 avian influenza viruses is ...
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Doctors' union says the government must stop stalling on new contract
The British Medical Association is calling on the government to come clean on what has happened to contract proposals for staff and associate specialists, produced as a result of negotiations between the BMA and NHS Employers.Almost three months after the BMA and NHS Employers submitted the proposals, the government has ...
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Scotland announces a £10m boost to local preventive care programmes
The Scottish executive has announced a £10m investment into preventive care programmes, to help improve local NHS services.The aim of the programme is to increase the rate of health improvement in deprived communities, by improving primary community services to deliver anticipatory care; identifying and targeting those at particular risk of ...
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Diagnostic test waiting times released
The Department of Health has released data that it claims will help in delivering the 18-week target.It states that the diagnostic test waiting times data for December 2006 shows the NHS's progress.The DoH states: 'The monthly data published gives the waiting times for 15 key diagnostic tests carried out in ...
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'Exceptional circumstance' clause for PCT outsourcing
Primary care trusts will only be able to outsource all of their commissioning expertise in 'exceptional circumstances', with plans to be signed off by the Department of Health.
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Call to share details on foreign medics
The General Medical Council is calling for better information sharing across European economic area countries to stop suspended medics from working in Britain.
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Leicester to cut 200 beds and 900 staff by 2009
Two hundred beds and 900 staff posts are to go at University Hospitals of Leicester trust - despite the organisation expecting to be £13m in the black this year.
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Olympic committee appoints chief medic
The London Olympic organising committee has announced the appointment of Dr Richard Budgett as its chief medical officer.Dr Budgett stated: 'I am very excited about this role and honoured to be appointed to such a crucial post. London 2012 has been a wonderful stimulus for all types of health-related activity ...