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NewsSenior pay: gap narrows in FT board level salary advantage
Board directors at foundation trusts are still leading the “NHS pay league” but the rest of the service is catching up, latest figures have revealed.
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NewsWhat Royal Surrey Foundation Trust sold
Names of products, dosages and units as described in a freedom of information release from Royal Surrey to Health Service Journal, April 2010.
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NewsFT admits selling low-stock drugs
Drugs controversially sold onto the export market by Royal Surrey County Hospital Foundation Trust included cancer drugs now listed as in short supply to the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsLib Dems unveil manifesto with pledge to cap managers' pay
The Liberal Democrats have unveiled their manifesto, pledging to protect frontline NHS services by slashing management budgets, scrapping strategic health authorities and capping managers’ pay.
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NewsLabour and Tories set out health plans to woo electorate
Both main political parties have launched their manifestos pledging extended 8am-8pm GP opening hours, free choice of hospital providers and an extension of foundation trusts.
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NewsConservatives launch election manifesto
The Conservatives have launched their election manifesto.
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NewsNHS employers hire and fire excessively, says MiP
Rises in salaries earned by NHS chiefs are fuelled by the constant hiring and firing of senior staff, according to Managers in Partnership.
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NewsNick Clegg rules out backing immediate Tory cuts
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said his party would not back a Conservative government that attempted to impose swingeing spending cuts in an emergency budget.
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NewsWorkers claim managers are inaccessible
Only one in 10 workers say their bosses are accessible, usually describing them as authoritarian, bureaucratic or secretive, according to a new report.
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NewsLabour pledges personalised care revolution
Personalised healthcare tailored to the needs of individual patients is a centrepiece of Labour’s general election manifesto.
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NewsTories say Brown abused NHS hospital for political gain
Gordon Brown has been accused of “abusing” NHS facilities for political gain after launching Labour’s manifesto at a new hospital site.
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NewsAndy Burnham apologises over organ removal
Health secretary Andy Burnham said he deeply regrets the distress caused to grieving families as it emerged around 800,000 people had their wishes about the use of their organs wrongly recorded due to an error.
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NewsDavid Cameron to guarantee GP access
David Cameron is set to guarantee access to a local GP 12 hours a day, seven days a week as part of the Tories’ election manifesto.
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NewsLabour launches election manifesto
Labour’s manifesto for the general election will today propose a major shake-up of public services that could see underperforming hospitals taken over by management teams from more successful organisations.
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NewsKing's Fund: NHS needs rapid change to meet challenges
The NHS has addressed many of the challenges it faced in 1997 but needs to change rapidly to meet the big challenges it now faces, according to a major review of the NHS in England by the King’s Fund.
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NewsNew finance lead for Barking and Dagenham
NHS Barking and Dagenham has appointed a finance director.
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NewsNHS online records trial launched
Patients at two health centres in Ayrshire have been given the ability to view their medical records online as part of an NHS Scotland pilot scheme.
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NewsGP language tests 'not blocked by EU rules'
EU rules do not stop national authorities carrying out language tests on foreign doctors working in the UK, the European Commission has said.
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NewsTories to slash public sector pay
The Tories would slash up to £2bn from the public sector payroll within a year as part of moves to bring the deficit under control, it has been revealed.
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NewsPCT pushes on with community hospital plan
NHS Mid Essex has decided to press on with plans to develop a new community hospital despite the current pressures on public finances.