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Monitor kicks off independent provider licencing process
Monitor is now accepting applications for licences from the independent sector, the regulator has announced.
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NewsNigel Edwards to head Nuffield Trust
The Nuffield Trust has announced that Nigel Edwards will take on the role of chief executive from April.
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NewsGovernment offers £10m boost for maternity units
Hospitals are to be given millions of pounds to help spruce up their maternity wards, the Department of Health has announced.
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NewsHSJ Live 07.01.14 Colchester acting chief exec resigns
Reaction to the resignation of the acting chief executive of Colchester University Foundation Trust - the hospital under investigation by police over allegations of cancer data manipulation.
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NewsAnalysed: England's national workforce plan
The growing and contracting staff groups are revealed in Health Education England’s proposal to allocate the NHS’s £5bn education and training budget
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NewsRoyal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese.
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NewsPatients asked to opt out or be included in database
NHS England has begun sending leaflets out to every household in England to inform residents that information from their patient records will be used in a national database unless they actively opt out.
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NewsMental health nurses to be based in police centres
Mental health nurses are to be based at some of England’s police stations and courts as part of a new pilot scheme.
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NewsRichards: compassion 'alive and well' in NHS
Compassion in the NHS is “alive and well”, according to England’s chief inspector of hospitals.
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NewsHSJ Live: 06.01.14 Royal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsMPs warn on clinical trials results
Clinical trial results are being routinely withheld from doctors, which is undermining their ability to make informed decisions about how to treat patients, the Commons public accounts committee has warned.
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NewsCharge for A&E visits backed by third of GPs
A third of GPs believe patients should be charged for some accident and emergency department visits, while most think government changes will do nothing to alleviate current pressures, according to a poll for the Press Association.
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NewsHSJ Live: 03.01.14 Clinical trial results withheld from doctors
Reaction to the public accounts committee warning that drug manufacturers are only publishing half of completed trial results, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsUpdated: Full list of NHS recipients of honours
The chief executive of Salford Royal Foundation Trust has been awarded a knighthood in the new year’s honours list.
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NewsFox: NHS budget protection must end
Ringfenced funding for the NHS must end after the next general election, a senior Conservative has said.
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NewsEight hundred data breaches in Scotland over five years
There have been more than 800 incidents of data loss by health boards in the last five years, figures have revealed.
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HSJ Live: 02.01.14 Budget protection of NHS must end says top Tory
Ring-fenced NHS spending attacked by former shadow health secretary and the rest of today’s news
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George Eliot contenders announced
The five contenders through to the next stage of the competition to take over George Eliot Hospital Trust have been announced.
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NewsFTN chief criticises tariff and planning guidance
The chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network has said “growing financial pressures” on the NHS are preventing patients from receiving quality care.
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NewsNHS employees offered Circle shares
NHS employees working at hospitals run by the operator Circle are to be offered shares in the company for the first time as part of moves to change its governance structure.