All articles by Lyn Whitfield – Page 10
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Tight timing for PCG start
Health authorities have been given a tight timetable for getting the first piece of the primary care group funding jigsaw in place.
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Milburn renews attack on market with scheme to replace risk insurance firms
Health minister Alan Milburn has angered the insurance industry by unveiling plans to change the way trusts cover themselves against non- clinical risks.
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Labour pains
This year, the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting follows 14 months of Labour government. But the doctors' leaders don't seem very happy. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Scotland's NHS to be different to England's
Plans to overhaul Scottish hospitals will leave the country with a very different health service to that in England, Scottish health minister Sam Galbraith said this week.
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Corps services
After a critical report on military health services, army and civilian staff at an MoD hospital unit in one NHS acute trust are soldiering on together, writes Lyn Whitfield
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Doctors' gain is NHS managers' pain as minister details make-up of PCG boards
Managers' leaders have voiced serious concerns about new guidance giving GPs a dominant role on primary care group boards.
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Pressure increases to finance MS drugs
Health authorities could be under pressure to fund Betaferon treatment for thousands more patients - at a cost of millions of pounds - by the end of the year.
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Manager s express doubts over Milburn's plans for shake-up of NHS finance regime
Two key government proposals to shake up the financial regime of the NHS have been greeted with scepticism by managers' leaders who say they cannot see how the new approach will reduce bureaucracy.
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Staffing crisis looms at screening centres
Breast cancer screening services could be facing a staffing crisis as pressure grows to bring more women into the scheme.
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All aboard?
Senior finance managers are increasingly worried about how primary care groups will work. Lyn Whitfield reports on an exclusive HSJ/HFMA survey
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Union blasts Scottish blood service shake-up that mirrors English move
Union leaders have condemned the biggest shake-up of Scotland's blood transfusion service in 50 years.
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The rest is silence
The National Blood Authority board meeting made little drama out of its latest crisis. Lyn Whitfield reports
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NHSE urged to make trusts honour senior contracts
Senior managers' organisations have called for action to prevent 'hundreds' of contractual disputes as the next round of NHS reforms gathers pace.
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Joint approach
The government's anti-drugs initiative aims at prevention, targeting the young and working with education and health authorities. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Who's sorry now?
If Frank Dobson went down badly at the RCN congress, his Tory counterpart did even worse. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Finance managers: give us timetable for latest reforms
Finance managers have warned the government to get to grips with the process of implementing its NHS reforms before it is too late. They want a timetable by the end of the month, setting out the work needed to implement the white paper.
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GPs' leaders demand huge rise in medical students
GPs' leaders have urged the government to approve a massive increase in medical student numbers to help avert a 'crisis' in family doctor services.
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Building up confidence
Reactions to the announcement of 11 new hospital developments, 10 funded by PFI, vary from 'great news' to 'reckless'. Lyn Whitfield reports
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Sacking of blood authority chair widely applauded
The decision to sack Sir Colin Walker as chair of the National Blood Authority has been widely applauded.