All News articles – Page 1378
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Good intentions could be disguising a big, bad threat
It is the much-heralded new model for 21st century healthcare provision, but could confusion over its meaning and the lack of safeguards against manipulation leave social enterprise open to abuse from profit-makers? Helen Mooney finds out
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SHA hurries to beat bad press on service review
Health chiefs at NHS South East Coast are rushing to canvass public and patient opinions before their proposals for a review of patient services in Kent get too much negative press.
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Community hospital cash depends on 'local backing'
The Department of Health wants acute and primary care trusts to use a series of 'marketing tactics' in consulting local populations on the future of community hospitals.
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Lord Hunt back at DoH in ministerial shake-up
Former junior health minister Lord Hunt has returned to the Department of Health as a minister of state.
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Test strip price cut is 'step back' in diabetes care
People with diabetes could suffer if the Department of Health goes ahead with planned cuts in the prices for glucose testing strips, an industry body has warned.
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Get reform back on track and finance will follow
The NHS financial crisis was not caused by too much reform too quickly, but by too little too late, argues Keith Palmer. Efforts to restore balance should not be allowed to delay it further
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Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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Hewitt promises to back 'unpopular decisions'
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has given her strongest promise yet that she will back managers wanting to drive through difficult hospital closures and service reconfiguration.
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Baby Boomers strain services
The pressure of an ageing population will compel governments around the world to change the funding of public services, according to a new study from consultants Deloitte.
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Nurses ready to strike over pay award
Nurses have said they are prepared to strike over this year's pay award.
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DoH says avoid public health redundancies
The Department of Health has decreed that 'all reasonable steps' should be taken to avoid making primary care trust public health directors redundant to enable the NHS to retain their specialist knowledge.
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PCT autonomy plans dropped
The Department of Health has backed away from proposals to give primary care trusts complete autonomy to set policies on NHS funding for continuing care.
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Local authority role will mark out networks as a new voice
It makes more sense for elected representatives to concern themselves with how health services are planned than how they are provided
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Litigation Authority: negligence cost concerns
The NHS Litigation Authority has expressed concerns over the high level of legal costs charged by claimant lawyers in clinical negligence claims.
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Audit Commission and NAO calls for debt bail-outs
Ministers should reconsider their decision not to bail out trusts with historic deficits, a report by the Audit Commission and National Audit Office has recommended.
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Audit Commission calls for end to deficit penalties
NHS trusts should be reimbursed for the money they have lost under the Treasury's resource accounting and budgeting system, the Audit Commission has said.
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Service redesign 'needs scrutiny', says Audit Commission
Local government must have a stronger voice in service redesign and commissioning decisions to ensure the public's concerns are heard by the NHS, according to Audit Commission chair Sir Michael Lyons.
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National Audit Office scopes study on NHS complaints
The National Audit Office is considering carrying out an inquiry into the NHS complaints system following concerns about the steep rise in the number of grievances referred to the Healthcare Commission.
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DoH will not limit private audiology
The Department of Health is refusing to bow to calls to limit private sector provision of audiology services.
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Trusts told to stop attacking each other
The primary care trust network has urged trusts to move on from blaming each other after PCTs came under attack from their acute peers.