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NewsPrivate healthcare market referred to Competition Commission
The Office of Fair Trading yesterday confirmed that it would refer the private healthcare market for in-depth investigation by the Competition Commission.
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NewsFoundation trusts cannot use bailouts to hide financial failings, regulator warns
Monitor has warned foundation trusts it may disregard bailout payments when assessing their financial health, in a move which could allow earlier regulatory intervention in troubled organisations.
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NewsFlory calls on PCTs to check DOLS compliance
NHS deputy chief executive David Flory has written to chief executives and PCTs urging them to ensure rules on when patients can be deprived of their liberty are followed.
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NewsMarket competition test proposed for trusts seeking extra funding
Monitor might refuse to allow local increases to the prices paid to NHS trusts unless commissioners have proven they could not buy the services more cheaply elsewhere, an independent report for the regulator has suggested.
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NewsExclusive: London and Manchester to get beam therapy investment
Andrew Lansley will tomorrow announce two hospitals that will offer Proton Beam Therapy for the treatment of cancer.
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DH issues grant for developing patient information
The Patient Information Forum is to be given £175,000 by the Department of Health to test and develop new approaches to improving health and wellbeing.
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NewsHealth board management to be scrutinised over waiting times
An independent review is to be carried out into the culture of management at a Scottish health board accused of doctoring waiting times figures to meet official targets.
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NewsExclusive: Lansley rejects hospital merger case
The health secretary has ruled there is insufficient evidence of the benefits of formally merging Chase Farm Hospital with North Middlesex University Hospital, HSJ understands.
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NewsMid Staffs 'could lose all acute services'
Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust could lose all its acute services unless radical action is taken to address clinical and financial problems, a leading health policy expert has warned its management.
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NewsPaul Zollinger-Read to join Bupa
Paul Zollinger-Read, a key figure in the world of commissioning, will leave the NHS after more than 20 years to join Bupa as its group medical director, it was announced today.
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NewsInformation strategy release delayed again
The release of the Department of Health’s information strategy, which was already a year late, has been put back again.
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NewsLabour targets NHS reforms in local elections
Ed Miliband has targeted the government’s health reforms as he launched Labour’s local elections campaign, with the promise to govern for the whole country, “not just for the wealthy few”.
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NewsFree online innovation webinar for HSJ subscribers
HSJ invites subscribers to view and participate in an exclusive webinar “Innovations in Healthcare”, in association with the Healthcare Advisory Forum and sponsored by Oracle.
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NewsFurther votes on pension strike action expected
More public sector workers are to vote on whether to accept the government’s controversial pension reforms.
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NewsCompetition panel to advise on CCG conflict of interest regulation
Providers are likely to have to complain to the NHS Commissioning Board before approaching Monitor with concerns about clinical commissioning groups’ conflicts of interest, HSJ has been told.
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NewsExclusive: mental health FT is first to quit clinical negligence scheme
Lancashire Care Foundation Trust this morning confirmed to HSJ it had given the NHS Litigation Authority notice it was leaving its clinical negligence scheme.
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NewsProbe into Nottingham University Hospitals dialysis deal
The NHS competition watchdog is investigating the trust’s award of two dialysis contracts, after a bidder accused it of a “blatant attempt to retain the incumbent provider”.
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NewsTrauma network adds five major centres
Five major trauma centres in the South are joining a national network to provide life-saving care to patients.
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NewsIndependent advice service for NHS patients launches
A new independent advice service for NHS patients in Scotland begins its work today.
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NewsUPDATED: Staff keep NHS pensions as Virgin's Surrey deal goes through
Virgin Care has signed a £500m community services contract with NHS Surrey under an arrangement which will see staff employed by a social enterprise.