All News articles – Page 941
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NewsConsortia decisions could be voted on via mobiles
New X Factor-style technology could allow GPs to vote on decisions about health service commissioning and service redesign using their mobile phones.
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NewsReadmissions penalties surpass savings target
The tougher non-payment policy for emergency readmissions could cost some hospitals even more in 2011-12 than the planned 1.5 per cent cut in tariff prices.
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NewsTrusts told to pick 'business critical' staff
Primary care trusts and strategic health authorities will be given a cap to limit the number of managers classed as “business critical” during the NHS reform transition period.
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NewsLansley sets out best practice tariff plans
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has laid out his plans for a best practice tariff, aimed at encouraging greater patient choice and control.
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NewsLincolnshire acute trust threatened with prosecution on care failings
Inspectors have threatened a hospital trust in Lincolnshire with shutting down services or prosecution after identifying a series of problems with the standard of care offered.
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NewsTameside in significant breach of foundation terms
Tameside Hospital Foundation Trust has been found to be in significant breach of its terms of authorisation as a foundation, after consistently overspending and not drawing up plans to return to solvency.
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NewsHospital's A&E too small - minister
A major Welsh hospital’s accident and emergency has been branded inadequate by the Assembly’s first minister.
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NewsAnalysed: government announces third wave pathfinders
The announcement of the third tranche of “pathfinder” GP consortia takes the proportion of the English population covered to just over two thirds.
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NewsFirst ambulance trusts achieve FT status
South East Coast and South West ambulance services have become the first ambulance trusts to achieve foundation status.
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NewsBurns: London A&Es may not be 'designated'
Health minister Simon Burns has suggested accident and emergency services in London may not be subject to restrictions on closures under the Health Bill reforms.
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NewsGP commissioners' management time 'will cost £300m'
Taking GPs out of their consulting rooms to run commissioning consortia will cost the health service around £300m a year in GPs’ time, MPs have heard.
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NewsCQC identifies concerns at Lincolnshire mental health FT
A mental health foundation trust in Lincolnshire has been told to address “major concerns” relating to the safety of its premises for patients.
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NewsCancer gap with Europe 'not closed', report finds
The gap in cancer survival rates between England and the best-performing European countries has not closed, more than a decade after the last government launched its NHS Cancer Plan, a parliamentary report has said.
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NewsHealth lottery plans unveiled
Media tycoon Richard Desmond has unveiled a new lottery game which aims to raise more than £50m a year for health charities.
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NewsBMA leader questions GP cash rewards
A government plan to reward GPs financially if they perform well could be considered “disgracefully unethical”, a doctors’ leader has said.
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NewsNHS will staff royal wedding 'on the cheap'
The NHS has been accused of staffing hospitals on the day of the royal wedding “on the cheap”, as a row continued to flare over payment for working on the bank holiday.
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NewsChief fires back after damning CQC report
A chief executive whose trust received a damning Care Quality Commission inspection report has criticised the regulator for ignoring the “bigger picture”.
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NewsUp to £800m GP income could be linked to commissioning
Some £800m of GP practice income could be linked to commissioning performance.
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NewsCQC threatens mental health FT with enforcement action over failings
Inspectors have called for urgent improvements at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Foundation Trust after finding it to be in breach of five essential standards.
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NewsCall to change chaplains policy
The NHS spends £29m on hospital chaplains providing “no clinical benefit” for a huge variation in costs, according to a report.