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News‘Weak’ chiefs keep London NHS hospitals in stasis
Hospital chief executives in denial and weak primary care trusts have been blamed for major problems in north London’s hospital sector.
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NewsMaidstone inspection finds change was slow
Some measures to improve hygiene at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust after infection outbreaks between 2004 and 2006 were not implemented until March this year, HSJ has learned.
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NHS cash subsidises private patient care
Private patients are getting hundreds of thousands of pounds of treatment subsidised by the NHS each year, an HSJ investigation reveals.
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Quality and safety can't 'solve' NHS funding crisis
The NHS should not look to quality and safety improvements to solve its impending funding problems, leaders in the field have warned.
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NewsCommentators warn ‘business as usual’ will not safeguard the NHS
Managers, clinicians and academics have cast doubt on whether existing health policy is capable of delivering the reforms needed to safeguard the future of the NHS.
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NewsHow long can Southend Hospital remain off the NHS Agenda for Change?
Southend University Hospital opted out of Agenda for Change and local terms and conditions for 95 per cent of its eligible staff. Alison Moore looks at how this independence is working out
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NewsNHS trusts meet A&E waiting targets as demand rises
The government’s accident and emergency waiting target was met in 2008-09 for England as a whole despite a rise in attendances of more than 400,000 on the previous year.
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NewsEccleshill to stay in Care Quality Commission’s spotlight
An independent treatment centre has been warned the Care Quality Commission will continue “to cast a very bright light” on its services to ensure it continues to improve.
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NewsForeign NHS nurses jailed for fraud
Two nurses have been jailed for fraud after using false documents to study and work in Britain.
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NewsRestricted emails reveal MMC tensions
Behind the scenes tensions over the viability of a consultant-led NHS have been revealed in a series of restricted Department of Health documents.
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NewsNo payoff for Mid Staffs chief executive
Mid Staffordshire foundation trust’s former chief executive Martin Yeates will receive six months’ salary but no severance payment following his resignation.
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NewsConservatives promise to axe dentists' contract
The Conservatives have outlined plans to scrap the existing NHS dental contract and introduce a registration scheme for patients.
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NewsNew deputy chief executive role for Islington PCT
Islington primary care trust has created a post of deputy chief executive, which will be filled by the PCT’s current chief operating officer Helen Pettersen.
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NewsDerby City primary care trust appoints director
Derby City primary care trust has appointed a new strategy and market management director.
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NewsTories propose junior nurse NHS board members
Junior nurses would sit on trust boards under pilot schemes being proposed by the Conservative Party.
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NewsDepartment of Health appoints NHS director of patient and public experience
The Department of Health has appointed Paul Streets as director of patient and public experience.
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NewsPrison nurse jailed after falsifying passport
A Zimbabwean nurse who used a falsified passport to get a job working with substance misusers at Holloway Prison has been jailed for a year.
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NewsMid Staffs chief executive resigns
The chief executive of Mid Staffordshire foundation trust has resigned, two months after the Healthcare Commission published its damning report.
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NewsRose Gibb to take case to Court of Appeal
Rose Gibb is to fight on in her battle to get her £250,000 payoff - making a double-pronged approach to the Court of Appeal and an employment tribunal.
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NewsNHS meets accident and emergency waiting time target
English emergency departments met the government’s accident and emergency waiting target by a tenth of a percentage point 2008-09.