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NewsKent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend
A primary care trust in Kent has become the latest to announce it is reducing funding for IVF and low priority procedures this year in order to tackle rising acute activity, which risks a £40m overspend.
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NewsMore Tribal health staff jobs now at risk
Consultancy Tribal has launched another round of redundancies in a review of its health business.
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NewsMental health hit by integration issues
Mental health patients are failing to benefit from personal care budgets because of poor inter-agency working.
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NewsTrust plans closure of seven wards
A hospital trust plans to close the equivalent of seven wards to get back into financial balance.
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NewsCollege of Medicine denies link to homeopathy charity
The new College Of Medicine has denied it is linked to Prince Charles’s Foundation for Integrated Health, which controversially folded this year.
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NewsBurstow's 'disappointment' over personal budgets
Care services minister Paul Burstow has spoken of his disappointment at the number of people whose care packages are paid for with a personal budget.
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NewsPatients will move between commissioners, warns GP
Patients will “get on a bus” to find care denied by GP commissioners, a senior doctor has told MPs and peers.
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NewsNew hospital death rates to be published in April
An official NHS death rate for hospital trusts will be published within six months and must not be ignored, the Department of Health was due to announce today.
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NewsDr Foster sticks with alternative death rate
One of the most prominent methods of comparing hospital death rates has been the hospital standardised mortality ratio, promulgated by firm Dr Foster and used to create its annual Hospital Guide since 2001.
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NewsGovernment scraps adult social services performance assessment
Annual performance assessments that rate local councils on adult social care are to be scrapped once this year’s ratings are announced later this month.
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NewsGP consortia accountability questioned
Questions about the financial accountability of GP consortia have been raised in the House of Commons.
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NewsPractice based commissioning academy gets rebranded
The NHS Alliance and its private sector partner Humana have rebadged their so called practice based commissioning academy to appeal to fledgling GP consortia.
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NewsPrivate sector gets 6pc of big ticket NHS spend
Some 6 per cent of big ticket spending in the NHS is with the private sector, analysis by HSJ suggests.
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NewsGP commissioner groups ‘will be size of PCTs’
One of NHS London’s leading GPs has said most of the capital’s commissioning groups will be the same size as primary care trusts.
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NewsVoluntary MARS pay-off plan attracts very few takers
A key government initiative to reduce NHS management costs is heading for failure, HSJ research suggests
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NewsChildren's hospitals face 'stealth cuts' - Healey
Children’s hospitals face “stealth cuts” that could affect their ability to treat sick youngsters, ministers have been warned.
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NewsEU paves way for overseas treatment of rare diseases
Primary care trusts will come under pressure to pay for patients to go abroad for treatments not provided by the NHS, under measures approved by the European parliament’s public health committee.
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NewsConcern over rate of PCT talent drain
MPs and GPs are concerned primary care trusts have already begun losing some of their best managers ahead of their proposed abolition.
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NewsPCT defends contraceptive pill decision
A scheme launched this week to allow girls as young as 13 to receive the contraceptive pill without their parents’ knowledge has been defended by the primary care trust running the service.
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NewsPay GPs more in poorer areas - public accounts committee
GPs should be offered more money to work in deprived areas as part of efforts to tackle the health gap between rich and poor, an influential group of MPs has said.