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NewsCritical care is risking lives, say surgeons
Thousands of patients who need emergency surgery are having their lives put at risk by poor NHS care and delays in accessing treatment, according to a damning report.
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Pathfinder complains over London's use of McKinsey
COMMERCIAL: London’s strategic health authority has received a complaint from a GP commissioning group about the use of consultancy firm McKinsey.
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NHS Oldham forecasts £5.3m savings shortfall
FINANCE: The primary care trust was forecasting at the end of July that it would miss its 2011-12 QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) savings plans by £5.3m.
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NHS Cumbria £1.6m behind on savings plan at end of August
FINANCE: The primary care trust’s 2011-12 cost improvement programme savings were £1.6m behind target at the end of August, strategic health authority figures show.
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Senior appointments made at England's biggest SHA cluster
WORKFORCE: Five more directors have been appointed to the board of the largest strategic health authority cluster in England.
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NewsMedicine no longer an "old boys club"
An increase in the number of doctors referred to the General Medical Council by their medical colleagues shows the profession is moving away from being “an old boys’ club”, new research has suggested.
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NewsExclusive: government funding changes 'will transfer £700m from poor to rich areas'
The government’s decision to give less weight to health inequalities when allocating NHS funds will ultimately lead to £718m a year being transferred from areas with poor health to those with good health, research suggests.
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NewsExclusive: data security regulation 'should not increase'
The Health Bill is likely to be amended to clarify responsibility for data security, the chair of the national information governance board has told HSJ.
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Turnaround directors get started at Leicester
FINANCE: Turnaround advisors from Deloitte and Finnamore have started working on the three month contract they have agreed with the trust.
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NHS Plymouth forced to increase savings targets
FINANCE: NHS Plymouth is £3m behind on its savings plan and is forecasting an underachievement of £8.6m by year end.
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Doncaster expects £2.9m voluntary redundancy management cut
WORKFORCE: NHS Doncaster is expecting a £2.9m reduction in recurrent annual management costs, because of a voluntary redundancy round.
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Leader'Only mugs work in commissioning’: tackling the management brain drain
Of all the postgraduate courses in the country, places on the NHS management training scheme are among the most fiercely contested.
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NewsMonitor could suspend competition to encourage integration models
Monitor’s chief executive has set out a range of measures the future regulator will consider as it works to reconcile competition and service integration.
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South London Healthcare Trust reports £3.3m savings shortfall
FINANCE: The south east London acute trust was aiming for savings of £6.8m by the end of month five but missed that by £3.3m.
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Leicester planning to raise parking charges
FINANCE: The trust is proposing to increase staff parking charges by at least 13.5 per cent.
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Kirklees PCT sees £4.4m acute overspend
FINANCE: Kirklees PCT is reporting a £4.4m year-to-date overspend against its acute contracts.
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Six Warwickshire CCGs likely to become four
STRUCTURE: The six clinical commissioning groups in Warwickshire are likely to merge down to four, HSJ has learned.
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News'Accelerated' demise of IT scheme needs clarity for involved businesses
IT professionals have called for clarity after the government announced an “acceleration” in the dismantling of the national IT scheme.
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Sussex Partnership announces £3m upgrade of low secure facilities
FINANCE: Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust’s board has agreed plans to improve and expand its secure mental health services in Chichester.
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'No conflict' in contract awarded to private company associated with commissioners
COMMERCIAL: A clinical commissioning group in the Wirral has awarded a place on a register of “any qualified providers” to a private company associated with most of the GP practices on the group’s board.