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NewsExclusive: Howe insists competition regulations protect commissioners
Health minister Earl Howe has insisted government assurances given during the passage of the Health Act on competition rules remain intact, after new regulations sparked accusations of backdoor privatisation of the NHS.
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NewsUnions agree to reduce staff terms and conditions
Health unions and NHS Employers have agreed a landmark deal to reduce the pay, terms and conditions of almost one million NHS staff.
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NewsKelsey plans iPad app to provide patient 'insight'
The NHS Commissioning Board has outlined fresh details of its drive to bring together information from a range of official and unofficial sources to provide a picture of NHS service providers’ quality.
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CCGs warn they risk being 'saddled with inherited debt'
Clinical commissioning groups have warned they are at risk of being “saddled with an inherited debt” when they take on their new powers, as a result of an onslaught of retrospective claims for NHS continuing healthcare funding.
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NewsExclusive: Merging Dorset trusts could be banned from talking
The two providers involved in the first merger of two foundation trusts could be prevented from freely communicating with each other while the Competition Commission reviews the case, HSJ has learned.
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NewsMinister defends tendering rules
Health minister Lord Howe has defended the government’s regulations on competition, which have been criticised after being laid before Parliament.
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NewsHSJ Live 26.2.2013: Competition rules raised in House of Commons
Controversial NHS regulations raised in Commons
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NewsAnalysed: The continuing care claims deluge
PCTs face a £600m bill for backdated claims for care funding, and this is causing anxiety for clinical commissioning groups too
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Senior physicians call for 'cultural change' in NHS
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has said there are problems across the NHS which could cause the care failures at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust to be repeated elsewhere.
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Government highlights new language control for doctors
Foreign doctors who want to work for the NHS in England will have to prove they can speak English well enough to treat patients, the government has said.
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NewsClinical involvement and collaboration emerge as key challenges for wave-three CCGs
Joint commissioning and involving clinicians are the major challenges for newly-authorised clinical commissioning groups, HSJ research has revealed.
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NewsGovernment tendering rules will lead to big shake-up in services, lawyers warn
Lawyers have warned that new procurement rules due to come into force in April could see significant changes in the provision of NHS services.
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NewsGP survey reiterates concerns about contract
More than a quarter of GPs believe that proposed changes to their contracts will mean they have to restrict access to patients, a poll suggests.
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NewsCircle identifies 'encouraging' NHS franchise opportunities
Circle Health has announced it is “encouraged” by the emergence of franchise-type opportunities to run hospitals and integrated services.
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NewsHSJ Live 22.2.2013: Francis plans NHS Commissioning Board meeting appearance
Robert Francis is to appear at the NHS Commissioning Board, while newspapers continue to focus on “gagging” agreements, and procurement law sparks controversy.
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NewsCollege of Emergency Medicine raises concern over Lewisham A&E plan
The College of Emergency Medicine has raised concerns over proposals for changes to Lewisham Hospital’s accident and emergency unit, and indicated they do not fit its definition of an emergency department.
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News‘High risk’ pathology restructure delayed by a year
The introduction of a controversial reconfiguration of pathology services in the east of England has been delayed by a year, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCare UK acquires UK Specialist Hospitals
Care UK has acquired UK Specialist Hospitals, a provider of elective surgery centres for NHS funded patients, for an undisclosed sum, it has announced.
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NewsAnna Dixon appointed as DH quality and strategy director
King’s fund director of policy Anna Dixon is to join the Department of Health as director of quality and strategy.