News – Page 1145
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BMA against more competition
The British Medical Association has vowed to campaign against increased competition and privatisation as the NHS feels the effects of the recession.
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NHS looking across the pond to Obama's cures
In Barack Obama's overflowing in-tray is a file marked 'healthcare'. Michael Macdonnell and Douglas Noble explore how he will increase coverage and control costs and what UK managers should watch
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NHS sets itself difficult targets for greener future
The health service is to set itself up as a trailblazer for public sector sustainability. Ambitious goals ranging from tough carbon-cutting targets to making staff walk and cycle are outlined in the NHS's first carbon reduction strategy, launched on Tuesday by chief executive David Nicholson.
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PCT strategy plans expose the distance to world class
Concerns have been raised over two out of three primary care trusts' strategic plans, the first scores for world class commissioning reveal.
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London unveils trauma plans to save 500 lives every year
A consultation is expected to begin tomorrow on the location of London's specialist trauma and stroke centres.
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David Flory admits Rose Gibb was 'unjustly denied' employment rights
David Flory has admitted in the High Court that Rose Gibb was ‘unjustly denied’ of her right to claim unfair dismissal from her position as chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.
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Hospital trusts face fines over mixed-sex wards
Hospitals treating patients in mixed-sex wards will be fined from April next year, health secretary Alan Johnson announced today.A proportion of trusts' payments will be deducted if mixed wards are used other than where there is 'overriding clinical justification'.
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Personalisation patchy says social care inspector
Most social care users are receiving a 'one size fits all' service, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection's final annual report.
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Personalisation patchy says social care inspector
Most social care users are receiving a 'one size fits all' service, according to the Commission for Social Care Inspection's final annual report.
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Scotland extends 18 week wait target
Scotland's 18 week referral-to-treatment target has been extended to around 100,000 patients annually who were not previously covered.
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NHS staff sickness remains a problem in Wales
The auditor general for Wales has recommended the Assembly government scraps its blanket target for reducing sickness absence rates in NHS trusts.
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PCTs told to be innovative with personal budgets
The Department of Health is calling on primary care trusts to put forward proposals for controversial personal budget pilots.
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Rose Gibb ‘hounded, victimised and demonised’ by Alan Johnson
Rose Gibb has described in court how she was “hounded, victimised and demonised” by the local health service and health secretary Alan Johnson.
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Rose Gibb defends NHS chief executives in witness box
Rose Gibb told the High Court today that if NHS chief executives resigned every time a patient died “there would be an awful lot of empty seats in the NHS”.In the witness box this morning, Ms Gibb defended her record running Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust. She said the trust ...
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Rose Gibb lawyer claims payoff was fair
Rose Gibb’s battle to get her compensation payoff went to the High Court yesterday – where she was met by a barrage of photographers and cameramen.Ms Gibb - who is expected to give evidence today - is suing her former employer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, for breach of contract. ...
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NHS Confed calls for IT programme overhaul
The national programme for IT should be called in by government, NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards has said.
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NHS sets itself tough targets for green future
The health service is to set itself up as a trailblazer for public sector sustainability.
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Specialist doctors say NHS is institutionally ageist
Almost half of specialist geriatric doctors think the NHS is institutionally ageist, according to a survey by Help the Aged.
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Leak reveals Alan Johnson's PFI concerns
Health secretary Alan Johnson's concerns about the NHS in the recession have been leaked in an email from the chair of NHS South East Coast.
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