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Monitor hails £75m surplus at foundation trusts
The strong financial performance of foundation trusts last year proved the merits of giving successful trusts greater autonomy, Monitor chair Bill Moyes has claimed.
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Care UK buys rival provider
Private healthcare firm Care UK has boosted its position as an NHS care provider by buying rival Mercury Health for £77m.
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Boost for social firms
Twenty-four local social enterprise schemes have been given £1.4m of national funding to deliver community health and social care services.
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Call for funds for elderly
A huge shift in public spending away from the NHS and into social services run by local authorities is needed to ensure a better quality of life for older people, according to care services minister Ivan Lewis.
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College calls for extra staff for home births
Trusts must recruit more midwives to meet the Department of Health's promise to let women choose a home birth by 2009, the Royal College of Midwives has warned.
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Doubts over DoH claims about expert patients
Claims that the expert patients programme will ease pressures on the NHS have been queried by an academic who reviewed the scheme for the Department of Health.
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Eight SHAs off course on smoking
Just two out of the 10 strategic health authorities have predicted they will meet this year's smoking cessation targets, which were due to be hit by the end of last week.
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Confed calls for shared goals with councils
The NHS Confederation is calling for tougher policy implementation, increased flexibility and better long-term planning to ensure that NHS bodies and local authorities work together to provide better care.
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Minister calls for realism on drink advice-
GPs and other primary care practitioners should not worry about being 'paragons of virtue' in their own drinking habits before they give advice on sensible drinking to patients, health minister Caroline Flint has said.
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PCTs told to be ready for patient moves
Primary care trusts will have to respond quickly to movements of patients between GP practices when the results of the national patient survey are published, according to new guidance from the Department of Health.
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BMA gives 'shocking' business advice to GPs
The British Medical Association has urged GP practices to consider turning new patients away and cutting enhanced services to balance books.
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£1.2bn Bupa hospital sale
Bupa, the UK's largest private healthcare group, has put all of its 26 UK hospitals up for sale in a deal which could fetch £1.2bn.
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DoH concedes defeat on secret NHSU report
The Department of Health has lost a lengthy battle to block the publication of a report into the axed NHS University.
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Hewitt vows to end mental health 'bail-outs'
Patricia Hewitt has pledged that mental health trusts will no longer have to 'bail out the overspenders' in the acute sector.
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Trust fights on in battle to expose 'mole'
An NHS trust's seven-and-a-half-year legal fight to uncover the mole who leaked details of Moors Murderer Ian Brady's treatment while on hunger strike is to continue, despite estimated costs of over £1m.
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Commission orders trusts to provide proof of non-discrimination policies
A hospital trust and a primary care trust have been served with legal notices giving them 28 days to prove they do not discriminate against disabled patients or staff.
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European directive could hamper electronic records
Key planks of the electronic patient record could break European law, the Commons health select committee has been told.
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Mental health charities warn that £2m therapy cash is not enough
A £2m boost for talking therapies will not reach enough people across England, mental health charities have warned.
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Former chief exec calls for more private beds for children
Commissioners should make greater use of the independent sector to stop children from being placed on adult mental health wards, a former mental health trust chief executive has said.
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RCN to discuss strike action
Nurses could be balloted over industrial action following a meeting held this week.