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NewsMinister backs commissioning-only care role for councils
Care services minister Norman Lamb has voiced his support for a proposal to prevent councils from directly providing adult care services.
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NewsCQC uncovers bullying perception at Barts
Concerns over bullying and accident and emergency department performance have emerged in the latest Care Quality Commission inspection reports, covering four trusts.
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NewsCancer diagnoses figures disclosed
Almost a third of a million people in the UK are diagnosed with cancer every year, figures show.
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NewsA&E locum costs soar 60pc in three years
The cost of paying temporary doctors to work at accident and emergency units in England increased by 60 per cent in three years as hospitals struggle to find permanent staff.
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NewsHSJ Live 14.01.14 Monitor recommends external review every three years for FTs
Monitor recommends that foundation trusts are externally reviewed every three years, along with the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsExclusive: Conservative peer appointed Monitor's interim chair
The government has appointed Conservative peer and former minister Baroness Hanham as the interim chair of health sector regulator Monitor.
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NewsExclusive: Female consultants face awards 'discrimination'
A significant decline in the proportion of clinical excellence awards being awarded to women has led to claims that female consultants are falling victim to discrimination, HSJ has learned.
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NewsClinicians 'must say sorry for errors', says Hunt
Doctors and nurses should be honest when things go wrong and “say sorry” to patients, according to the health secretary.
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NewsCQC promotes private health firm
NHS hospital inspectors are being signposted towards private healthcare by their employers, it has emerged.
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NewsNHS data move opt-out 'damaging'
It would be “enormously damaging” if patients decided to opt out of the new NHS data mining scheme, leading medical charities have warned.
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NewsHSJ Live 13.01.14 Public think frontline staff have little say in how NHS is run
A survey find the public place the most trust in NHS frontline staff, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment
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NewsKiller nurses among staff stripped of NHS pensions
Two nurses convicted of murdering patients are among 11 NHS workers that have had their pensions taken away after committing serious offences, it has been revealed.
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Checks 'won't tackle unfit doctors'
Checks aimed at identifying poorly-performing doctors will do nothing to help find or stop them, according to a poll of more than 5,600 doctors.
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News10 January issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Please note: if iPad users have been experiencing difficulties recently with the app we recommend you delete it from the homescreen and download the latest version from www.hsj.co.uk/tablet-appDownload the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app ...
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NewsHSJ Live: 10.01.14 Legal challenge issued after out-of-hours firm loses bids
A provider of GP out-of-hours services is taking legal action after it lost bids in two out of three areas where they being tendered, plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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News'Weaknesses' in decisions to drop cases against doctors
Weaknesses have been found in the General Medical Council’s handling of one in five of the fitness to practise cases that it closed early without doctors facing a disciplinary panel, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHSJ Live: 09.01.14 Yorkshire ambulance staff poised to strike
Concern that staff could work 10 hours without a break, and the rest of today’s news
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NewsQuarter of in-deficit CCGs lose out under new funding policy
More than a third of clinical commissioning groups that are underfunded according to the new NHS allocations formula will be even further behind their target share of funding by the end of 2015-16, HSJ analysis has found.
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NewsMP: Let communities run hospitals
“Communities” must be given the chance to own and run smaller hospitals and help push forward the changes the NHS needs to succeed, a Conservative MP has said.
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NewsAnalysed: Practices urged to work at greater scale
NHS England’s planning guidance, which calls for GP practices to “work at a greater scale”, will not mean the end of single-handed practices, the national body has said.