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NewsTories accused over listening exercise timing
Health secretary Andrew Lansley’s promise to “pause and listen” to concerns over his planned NHS shake-up were dismissed as a smokescreen to protect the coalition from an electoral backlash in the run-up to next month’s polls.
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NewsLeading MPs fail to find anything positive in NHS reforms
The chair of the influential Public Accounts Committee has said the cross-party group of MPs struggled to find anything positive in the government’s NHS reform plan
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NewsNo hospital doctors on consortia boards
Patients and other health professionals are being excluded from the “closed shop” of GP commissioning consortium boards, an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsCluster landscape shows 52 commissioners
Primary care trusts are clustering into 52 commissioners across England – ranging from a £4.7bn giant to an £800m standalone PCT.
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NewsReform review may demand 'no more reorganisations'
The NHS Future Forum is considering recommending “no more top-down reorganisations” of the service in its report to the prime minister, HSJ has learned.
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News£300m bill for social care services transfer
Transferring social care from councils to the NHS could cost more than £300m, according to the organisation representing Scotland’s 32 councils.
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NewsAcute mixed-sex ward breaches still in the thousands
Nearly half of NHS acute trusts are still putting patients in mixed-sex accommodation despite facing financial penalties, new figures show.
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NewsEating assistance figure unchanged in nine years
Almost one in five NHS patients who need help with eating are offered no assistance - a figure that has not changed since 2002, data shows.
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NewsJoint pathology venture fairly awarded, CCP decides
A foundation trust did not breach competition principles in selecting a public/private partnership for its pathology services, the NHS market regulator has found.
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NewsAmbulance services eye savings by sending fewer ambulances
Ambulance services plan to save the NHS “tens of millions” by sending fewer patients to hospital, now the category B response target has been scrapped.
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Transferred employees feel 'marooned'
Clinicians who transferred from the NHS to work in independent treatment centres feel “marooned” and worry about standards of care, according to research.
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NewsFears over offender services as duties transfer to PCTs
One of the largest providers of drug and alcohol services for offenders has expressed serious concerns about primary care trusts’ readiness to commission them.
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News'Business review' to start for commissioning support
Commissioning support services being developed by primary care trust clusters are likely to undergo a national “business review”.
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NewsExclusive: hospital trust considers private franchise
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital has become the third NHS trust to consider becoming privately managed after admitting it cannot achieve foundation status in the short term.
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NewsField emphasises focus on secondary legislation for NHS reform tweaks
The recommendations of the NHS Future Forum are likely to focus on secondary legislation and on the assurance process for consortia, rather than push for major changes to the Health and Social Care Bill, its chair has indicated to HSJ.
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NewsDH plugs public health and pharma gaps on review panel
The Department of Health has confirmed it is to appoint a public health expert and a pharmacist to plug holes in its reform review panel.
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NewsGP performance bonuses fail to improve public health
Performance-related pay for GP practices has failed to improve their prevention and health promotion work, according to research published today.
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NewsPublic NHS involvement suspended in Birmingham
Birmingham has been left without a fully functioning patient and public involvement network after its “two key decision making groups” were temporarily suspended.
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NewsCommunity service transfer delays revealed by Department of Health
A total of 29 community service transfers involving 35 primary care trusts have been delayed beyond the Department of Health’s 1 April deadline, the DH has admitted.
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NewsNHS finance bosses 'concerned' over productivity targets
NHS finance directors are already warning their plans to improve productivity in 2011-12 may not be met, less than a month into the financial year.