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FTs warn budget cuts could cause organisational failure
Foundation trusts have warned that tougher than expected budget cuts mean they face “serious financial stress” which could lead to organisational failures and thousands of job losses.
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Midwife-led units threatened by falling birth rates
Standalone midwife-led centres are under threat from high costs and falling numbers of deliveries, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
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FT quality reports unreliable, Audit Commission finds
Foundation trust quality accounts are unreliable, with wide variations in the standard of data used, an Audit Commission study has found.
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Trusts agree local deals for royal wedding holiday
At least five trusts have reached agreement with local unions not to pay staff extra for working on the royal wedding Bank Holiday.
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Mental health merger ruled against over competition concerns
The Cooperation and Competition Panel has ruled outright against a merger between two trusts for the first time.
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Review found surgery at Mid Staffs 'inadequate'
A review into general surgery at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust found the service “inadequate, unsafe and at times frankly dangerous”, the public inquiry into care failings at the trust was told.
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NHS faces reform challenges - Nuffield Trust
The NHS faces challenges in ensuring safe and stable healthcare while the government’s reforms are implemented, according to a new report.
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NHS reform is 'biggest broken promise'
The government’s NHS reforms are rapidly becoming prime minister David Cameron’s “biggest broken promise”, Labour’s shadow health secretary has said.
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Hospitals will not have to close - Lansley
Hospitals will not have to close despite the NHS budget facing annual real-term cuts of 4 per cent, the government said.
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Dr Foster chief executive stands down
Dr Foster Intelligence chief executive Tom Moloney has stood down and been replaced by Tim Baker, who previously led Dr Foster Research, the company has announced.
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PCT clusters should have guarantee of existence beyond 2013, says Nuffield Trust
Primary care trust clusters should be given a guarantee that they will continue to exist after 2013 and could become regional outposts of the NHS Commissioning Board, according to experts at the Nuffield Trust.
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Milburn rejects offer to join Commissioning Board chair competition
Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn has rejected a government offer to become a candidate for the chair of the NHS Commissioning Board.
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Contaminated blood inquiry to hear evidence
An inquiry into how people were infected with hepatitis C and HIV from contaminated blood will begin hearing evidence on Tuesday.
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Lib Dem MPs oppose health reforms
Two Liberal Democrat MPs have piled pressure on health secretary Andrew Lansley’s NHS shake-up plans by backing a Commons motion urging caution against how the reforms are implemented.
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Hospital worker held over alleged sexual assaults
A worker at Luton and Dunstable Hospital has been arrested by detectives investigating allegations that patients were sexually assaulted, police have confirmed.
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Hull GPs refuse pathfinder 'political football'
GPs in a primary care trust area known for its strong commissioning performance are refusing to form a pathfinder consortium as they do not wish to become a “political football”.
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Reforms 'will turn clock back to the 1930s'
Plans to reform the NHS could return healthcare provision to the days of the 1930s and ’40s, one of Britain’s leading doctors have warned.
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£775m for medical outcomes research
Government funding of up to £775m has been earmarked for “translational” medical research aimed at taking new discoveries from the lab bench to the hospital bed.
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Book balancing managers' 'biggest challenge'
The need to save cash and balance the books is the biggest challenge facing NHS managers, according to a survey.
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CQC warning over safety of maternity services at trust
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust has been warned after inspectors found it was not ensuring the safety of women in its maternity unit.