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DoH opts out of traffic light rating for PCTs
The Department of Health has decided not to give primary care trusts an overall traffic-light rating at the end of fitness for purpose assessments.
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MPs return to redress bill
The NHS Redress Bill returns to the House of Commons this week. The bill aims to introduce simpler, faster ways of responding to low-value clinical negligence cases. Conservatives will seek to defend key amendments won earlier this year in the House of Lords.
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Test strip price cut is 'step back' in diabetes care
People with diabetes could suffer if the Department of Health goes ahead with planned cuts in the prices for glucose testing strips, an industry body has warned.
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Foundation governance definitely not kids' stuff
Monitor has stepped in to prevent a foundation trust appointing children as governors.
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Choice: too little data for patients
Patients want to choose hospitals on the basis of quality of care but there is too little data to help them come to a conclusion, a report has found.
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Foundation trust defers application
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has deferred its foundation trust application because of continuing uncertainty over the payment by results tariff for specialist services.
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News analysis Trusts feel impact as PFI and payment by results collide
Cash-strapped trusts locked into expensive and inflexible PFI deals have always faced particular challenges. But with payment by results making no allowance for the extra costs they face, their future is looking bleak indeed. Alison Moore reports
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Central procurement to fill GP gaps
The government is to take control of the majority of procurements for GP services in 30 under-doctored areas in England, HSJ has learned.
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Funding row could see 1,800 patients rejected by foundation
A foundation trust has become the first in the country to turn patients away after the escalation of a public row with its primary care trust over funding.
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Ambulance chiefs issue jobs threat
Chief executives of soon-to-be defunct ambulance trusts have given the government just weeks to resolve their positions or face legal action.
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Preferential pay-off deals protected
Staff facing the axe under NHS restructuring will be protected from worsened redundancy and retirement terms resulting from new anti-age discrimination laws.
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DoH invites private bids for PCT management
Scores of private consultancy and insurance firms are vying to win a place on a list of companies government-sanctioned to manage commissioning for primary care trusts.
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National Consumer Council posits £1bn saver idea
The NHS could save £1bn a year if it targeted funds using a better understanding of how people make their choices in health, according to a report by the National Consumer Council.
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Blair is urged to support foundations
Foundation trusts should be given the political backing for widespread joint ventures, mergers, 'acquisitions' with other trusts, the Foundation Trust Network has urged the prime minister.
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Publlic doubts on choice
More than half the people interviewed in a British Medical Association survey on patient choice in the health service said it was not offered by the NHS. Four-firths of the 1,000 people interviewed had had some contact with the NHS over the past year, with seven out of 10 in ...
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Welsh ambulance review
The Welsh Assembly is to hold an inquiry into the country's ambulance service ? but only after the health minister mistakenly voted in favour. Labour's Brian Gibbons voted by mistake with opposition parties to ensure there will be a probe.
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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Demand management 'not a panacea'
The NHS risks 'pinning too much' on the financial gains of demand management, a leading voice in primary care has warned.
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NAO quizzed on 'glowing' IT report
The National Audit Office has been told to continue to monitor the progress of the national programme for IT in the NHS after producing a report which surprised MPs with its positive conclusions.