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£100m to help increase NHS energy efficiency
Health minister Andy Burnham has announced £100m funding to help NHS trusts meet their energy efficiency targets. Seven out of 10 are already on track, he said, but more should be done to reduce carbon emissions and deliver savings that will be ploughed back into patient care.For more information click ...
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Heart disease deaths down 35 per cent
Investment and reform in services to tackle coronary heart disease is saving lives, says a progress report on implementing the national service framework for CHD today. Shaping the Futuresays premature deaths from CHD are down 35.9 per cent since 1996, on course to meet ...
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Draft workforce strategy reveals glut of consultants and shortage of nurses
HSJ reveals the draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2007 spending review.
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Workforce plans predict 'bitter opposition' and 'volatility'
The NHS is facing a huge oversupply of consultants and a shortage of thousands of nurses, junior doctors and GPs, a draft government strategy has revealed.
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SHAs told they must plug shortfall of 14,000 nurses
A shortage of more than 14,000 nurses by 2011 could cripple NHS organisations as they struggle to meet patient demand for services.
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DoH response: 'See figures in context' plea
The Department of Health said the figures in the document should be seen in the context of significant staff increases in recent years.
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New grade: BMA backlash expected
Government proposals to reduce a glut of over 3,000 consultants by creating a sub-consultant grade will be 'bitterly opposed' by the British Medical Association, the draft workforce strategy warns.
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'Market rates for nurses' plan
Nurses' pay could be dictated by local market rates under proposals being discussed by the board of the Department of Health.
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Warning over union action on pay
Department of Health senior officials warned of 'a real danger of industrial unrest' if the government set next year's NHS pay award at 2 per cent - just a month before the DoH proposed an even lower figure.
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NHS faces big risk from back-pay claims
NHS staff claims for back pay under the Agenda for Change contract are the 'biggest risk' to the Department of Health's pay and workforce strategy, HSJhas learned.
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Trusts falling short of 18-week target
Trusts are currently only treating 35 per cent of patients within the 18-week target, the Department of Health has said.
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Green light for care record
The government is to push ahead with the creation of an NHS summary care record after making partial concessions to doctors and privacy campaigners on confidentiality and consent.
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Sir Liam announces NPSA 'refocus'
The National Patient Safety Agency is to be slimmed down and 'refocused' on collecting and analysing information through its national reporting and learning system.
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Welsh minister welcomes health TV series
A six-part TV series will begin on ITV Wales tomorrow aimed at inspiring viewers to make a lifestyle change for a healthier 2007.Fit for a Changewas made in association with Health Challenge Wales.Health minister Dr Brian Gibbons commented: 'The series will encourage all of us to be more active for ...
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Food labels branded as flawed
The National Heart Forum has called the system of guideline daily amounts due to be launched tomorrow by 21 major food companies 'seriously flawed'.The NHF believes the scheme will widen dietary health inequalities as it is difficult to understand and misleading to the most vulnerable.Chief executive Paul Lincoln said: 'If ...
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New chief for WHO
Dr Margaret Chan of China has today taken office as director-general of the World Health Organisation following her election in November.She pledged that her term of office and the effectiveness of the organisation would be judged by the impact they have on two specific populations.'I want my leadership to be ...
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DoH plans mark rewriting of relationship with professions
If one image of the dole queue helped finish off Labour in 1979, just imagine what might happen if the jobless wore white coats. The prospect of making large numbers of consultant posts redundant is one rarely articulated in public. That changes this week with HSJrevealing ...
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Plans for consultants 'absurd', says BMA
British Medical Association consultants committee chair Dr Jonathan Fielden has criticised the Department of Health’s draft pay and workforce documents, revealed in HSJtoday. He said: ‘It is absurd to suggest that the NHS in England needs fewer hospital consultants. ‘To suggest that there should be fewer consultants, and of a ...
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News Analysis: Next era of reform will hinge on Brown being as bold as Blair
With Gordon Brown almost certain to take over as prime minister this year, and his reputation for springing surprises, people in the health service are beginning to wonder what it will mean for them and the NHS reform landscape. Daniel Martin looks for clues
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Ruth Hussey on sustainability
'Sustainable development is good management. Consider the cost of energy - good management expects efficient energy use. Consider the difficulty in recruiting staff - good management develops skills to meet its needs from the local community. Consider disadvantaged communities - good management procures goods and services locally'