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Government launches 10-year drug strategy
The government has launched a new 10-year strategy for fighting illegal drug use.
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C-charge 'has improved health'
A study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine has found that the reduced pollution in the capital's congestion charge area has helped improve health.
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Henderson upbeat on GP contract report
Responding to the National Audit Office report on the GP contract released today, Alastair Henderson, acting director of NHS Employers, which is now responsible for negotiating the GP contract, said: 'This report makes it clear that the contract is beginning to deliver the benefits intended.
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Nicholson announces new cleaning strategy
The NHS is to push forward with a step change in cleaning services, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said. At a summit of private and public sector cleaning representatives, Mr Nicholson outlined plans which included publishing the latest information on MRSA rates for every hospital on the NHS Choices ...
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Department plays down medic supply fears
The Department of Health has tried to dampen fears that the NHS faces a drop in the supply of European labour, which experts say could lead to doctor shortages.
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GP payment scheme must be 'scaled back'
Offering financial incentives to GPs and other healthcare providers is unlikely to have a dramatic impact on the quality of patient care, new research concludes.
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Eleventh-hour changes to GP contract left PCTs with bill
The introduction of the new GP contract led to a 57 per cent increase in payments to practices in just three years, the National Audit Office has found. The huge increase was fuelled by a last-minute concession to the British Medical Association that sidelined the government's own priority to tackle ...
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'Dangerous' surgeons being put on specialist register
Doctors deemed to be a danger to patients are being put on the specialist register and permitted to work as consultant surgeons, HSJ has learnt.
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Tee calls for cash incentives
NHS Direct could be paid extra to focus on taking calls from patients living in deprived areas or with specific health needs, its chief executive Matt Tee has revealed.
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New super-regulator begins to take shape
Last week the bill that will see the merger of three regulators began its process through the Lords. But there are warnings that detail on the new legislation is sketchy, leaving trusts in the dark over how it will affect them. Charlotte Santry reports
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Monitor fights shy of legal tussles
Monitor will seek to avoid tightening the rules on income from private patients because it fears legal reprisals from foundation trusts, HSJ has learned.
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'Overburdened' staff put mothers and babies at risk
Too little focus on maternity services and safety by some trust boards is leading to problems, an independent inquiry is expected to warn tomorrow.
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Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.
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Johnson said to favour principles over 'rights'
Health secretary Alan Johnson is against a patients' charter-style NHS constitution, HSJ has been told.
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Scottish budgets reworked
Scottish health and well-being secretary Nicola Sturgeon has unveiled a new funding formula that will see substantial redistribution of funds between health boards.
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Morgan leaves Confed for Wales
Managers have paid tribute to Gill Morgan, who is leaving the NHS Confederation to head the civil service in Wales.
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Candidates will need a 'cross-NHS view'
NHS Confederation trustees were due to meet this week to begin discussing recruitment for the position vacated by Gill Morgan.
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Staff sacked after offensive image probe
A foundation trust has sacked 13 staff and disciplined 28 others after an eight-month investigation into offensive images that were sent by email around its hospitals.Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals foundation trust is still investigating 10 staff members.
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Tories attack drug treatment plans
The Conservatives have criticised home secretary Jacqui Smith’s plans to remove benefits for drug addicts failing to comply with their treatment programme, saying they do not go far enough.
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Practice managers seek lobby muscle
GP practice managers are attempting to establish their own national representative body to lobby on behalf of the profession and develop a code of ethics that members can sign as a mark of their professionalism.