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NewsNHS could impose mandatory retirement age after court verdict
A recent court ruling could help create a precedent allowing NHS employers to apply a compulsory retirement age to staff, HSJ has been told.
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NewsLansley looking forward to 'time when there are no more Mid Staffs'
The government and the law are on the side of NHS staff who raise concerns about patient care, the health secretary has said.
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NewsCameron introduces 'family and friends' hospitals rating
A system for ranking NHS hospitals by patient satisfaction in “real time” will be introduced across England from April next year, the prime minister has announced.
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NewsNicholson: 'very real' chance Francis recommendations will conflict with policy
Recommendations from the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust public inquiry run a “very real” risk of conflicting with government policy, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has admitted.
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NewsSocial care system needs urgent funding reform - report
Urgent reform to the funding of the social care system is needed to meet the needs of an ageing population, health experts have said.
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New research centre for major diseases opens
A new research centre to find treatments for major diseases has been opened by the Princess Royal.
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NewsGo ahead for £35m Shropshire reconfiguration
Major changes to acute services in Shropshire have been given the green-light, paving the way for a £35m reconfiguration across the county’s two hospitals.
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NewsSouth West trusts set up 'pay cartel'
Sixteen NHS trusts in the South West have banded together in a bid to make “radical” changes to staff pay, terms and conditions outside of the national Agenda for Change agreement.
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NewsAuthor of seminal NHS funding review Sir Derek Wanless dies
Sir Derek Wanless, the former banker whose seminal 2002 report laid the theoretical foundations for the following decade’s huge increases in NHS funding, has died.
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NewsTop managers set to escape regional pay
The NHS’s most senior managers should not receive localised rates of pay, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsNew patient rating system plans welcomed
Patients will be able to rate the treatment they receive in hospitals to ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect on wards, the prime minister will announce today.
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NewsMinister rejects cancer drugs fund
The Welsh health minister Lesley Griffiths has told a group of top medics she is standing firm on the issue of a cancer drugs fund for Wales, saying the scheme would not work.
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News'Landmark' agreement on 212 CCGs covering England
The NHS reforms have reached the “landmark moment” of agreeing the clinical commissioning groups which will go forward to take over budgets next year, the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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NewsDH unveils plans for increased competition in diagnostics and mental health
The Department of Health has unveiled its strategy for extending competition from any qualified provider to new areas of NHS care, including mental health and diagnostic tests.
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NewsOmbudsman's claims on care quality complaint 'did not stand up '
An apparent failure to fully investigate a high profile complaint has led to a renewed call for changes to the system.
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NewsOvernight discharge data questioned as hospitals hit back
Misleading data has emerged as a possible explanation for claims that hospitals discharge large numbers of patients in the middle of the night.
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NewsFT ambitions will be 'very challenging' for community trusts
A leading provider of integrated health and social care looks set to abandon its ambitions to become a standalone community foundation trust in a move lawyers say could be repeated elsewhere.
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NewsExclusive: acutes' deficit and savings performance worsens, DH figures show
Plans to cut deficits in the acute trust sector fell further behind in the third quarter of 2011-12 as hospitals struggled to make up lost ground on challenging savings targets.
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Exclusive: HSJ Clinical Commissioning Groups Map Tool
HSJ reveals the 212 clinical commissioning groups authorised to go forward as announced by the Commissioning Board today.
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Treasury targets off-payroll public sector salaries
The chief secretary to the Treasury has stressed that all public sector employees “should be on the payroll and paying the correct amount of tax”.