News – Page 1392
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Resignation over list controversy
One member of staff has resigned and another has been disciplined at a Lincolnshire trust at the centre of waiting list irregularities.
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Trust withdraws GP letter
A trust has been ordered to retract a letter suggesting patients pay for surgery if they do not want to wait four-and-a-half months for it.
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Lord Hunt back at DoH in ministerial shake-up
Former junior health minister Lord Hunt has returned to the Department of Health as a minister of state.
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Doctors slam reform plans
Doctors would not be prepared to pay to be regulated by a body which did not represent their profession, the chair of the British Medical Association has said.
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Wanless to examine future of mental health
The King's Fund has launched a Wanless review of mental health services in a bid to project the cost of providing a service over 20 years.
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Conservatives want GPs to control funds
The Conservative Party has proposed handing control of NHS budgets to GPs and replacing waiting targets with measurements of improvements in health outcomes.
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DoH reveals fall in inappropriate admissions
Practice-based commissioners are reducing inappropriate patient referrals to hospital, according to figures released this week by the Department of Health.
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Minister unveils social enterprise start-up fund
A £73m social enterprise fund will be given to start-up social enterprises in health and social care, according to health minister Ivan Lewis.
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Performance: patients' reviews to go online
Patients will be given the chance to rate the service they have received from GPs and hospitals on a website set up by Department of Health.
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Learn from complaints, trusts told
Concerns about GP clinical treatment and care surrounding hospital deaths are the recurring themes of thousands of complaints sent to the Healthcare Commission.
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Coding row 'largely resolved'
Disputes concerning over-performance at acute level have been largely resolved, University College London Hospitals foundation trust has said.
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Protect equity says RCN chief
The patient choice programme must not be promoted at the expense of equity, Peter Carter, the Royal College of Nursing's new general secretary, has warned.
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Air ambulance charities hope for NHS cash
Air ambulance charities believe the NHS is ready to recognise the role they could play in improving emergency care - and that funding for improved services could be on the cards.
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Safety probe at 999 trust
Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust has landed in controversy again with an investigation launched into possible patient safety breaches.
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Alarm as diabetes jobs are slashed
More than a quarter of specialist diabetes nurses say trusts have cut posts and some nurses been made redundant, according to a survey.
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PCT triage plans spark opposition
A debt-ridden primary care trust has met fierce opposition from its local hospital over proposals to have accident and emergency arrivals triaged by primary care staff.
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NHS Confederation consults on private sector membership
Private providers, not-for-profit health companies, and voluntary organisations could become full members of the NHS Confederation, if existing members support new proposals to bring the independent sector on board.
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Operating framework: concerns over missed targets
The operating framework 2007-08 identifies some concerns about NHS targets - in particular, missed mental health targets and risks around the 18-week referral-to-treatment target.
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Operating framework: PCTs to assess services
All primary care trusts will have to conduct a service review programme next year to examine the services they commission.