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Sizewell B outage halts Wycombe operations
Wycombe Hospital in High Wycombe was forced to cancel operations after it was hit a by a power cut.
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Auditors query PCT attempts to reduce last year's surplus
Auditors are querying NHS organisations' attempts to minimise the surpluses they have reported in their 2007-08 accounts.Analysis by HSJ suggests new accountancy policies and provisions allowed NHS organisations to deflate their surpluses by up to £1.3bn.
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Inexperience affects sexual health services
A lack of expertise and experience in sexual health commissioning is harming efforts to improve services, sexual health organisations claim.
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Doctors plan industrial action vote
Doctors are set to vote on industrial action at the British Medical Association's annual GP conference next week.
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Academics slam two-tier corporate manslaughter legislation
The exclusion of sectioned patients from a new law aimed at protecting people from dangerous management practices is being condemned as 'scandalous'.
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Fujitsu IT deal for e-records abandoned
The NHS's troubled IT programme has been dealt a further blow after negotiations with a key supplier broke down.
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Wales to debate single body for mental health services
Welsh health and social services minister Edwina Hart has called for a debate on the delivery and oversight of mental health services after an independent review recommended establishing a single statutory body to plan and deliver mental health services in Wales across organisational and regional boundaries.
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DH outlines world class commissioning test
The Department of Health has published the framework for the world class commissioning assurance programme, but primary care trusts must wait until the summer publication of health minister Lord Darzi's next stage review to learn what incentives and rewards will be earned by the highest achievers.
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Social care charges hit elderly and disabled
Almost a third of elderly and disabled people who use council care services say they have been forced to cut back on essential spending related to their health condition or disability due to rising care charges.
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Monitor report highlights role of governors
Foundation trust governors are making local accountability in the NHS a reality, but they need more support from foundation executive boards, independent regulator Monitor says in a report published today.
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Failing managers to be axed under new NHS regime
Managers at failing trusts will be replaced with teams from the private sector or other NHS organisations under a tough new performance regime.
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Ugandans suffer record levels of post-traumatic stress
People displaced by the 20-year war in northern Uganda have the highest ever recorded rate of post-traumatic stress and depression, a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Gulu University has found.
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Ashford and St Peter's appoints new chief executive
Paul Bentley has been appointed as chief executive of Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals trust.
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Dementia care 'should be personalised' - CSCI
Care for people with dementia should be personalised and see beyond their condition, a report by the Commission for Social Care Inspection has said.
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DH launches consultation on volunteering
A six-month consultation on improving support for health, social care and charity volunteers and encouraging opportunities for volunteers has been launched by the Department of Health.
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Polyclinics will not improve care, consultants tell BMA
Six out of 10 consultants say polyclinics will not improve patient care and 83 per cent fear privatisation of the NHS is detrimental to patient care and the service overall.The survey, carried out by the British Medical Association, says that over half of respondents say they are prevented from innovating ...
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West Midlands and South East Coast set out Darzi visions
NHS West Midlands has identified ‘seven big challenges’ for healthcare in the region, including an ‘unjustifiable variability’ in the safety and quality of services.
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Health volunteering abroad: a lot to offer
HSJ catches up with VSO workers in Cambodia to find out what they are contributing to the country's health strategy
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Children's mental health unit gets go-ahead
The Welsh Assembly has approved the building of a government-funded children's mental health unit in Bridgend.