News – Page 872
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NewsLeading integrated care provider requests financial help
One of the NHS’s leading integrated care providers has sought financial help from its strategic health authority cluster after reporting a “precarious” cashflow position.
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NewsPCTs to receive flat 2.8pc increase next year
Primary care trusts will receive the same allocation in 2012-13 as this year, plus an across the board 2.8 per cent increase, the Department of Health has announced.
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NewsNHS whistleblowers threaten legal challenge
Solicitors for new campaign group Patients First have threatened two London trusts with legal action claiming they may have acted unlawfully in discharging their duties towards whistleblowers.
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News24,000 diabetes deaths 'preventable', report claims
Up to 24,000 patients with diabetes are dying unnecessarily every year, according to a new report.
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NewsGovernment urged to raise alcohol prices by leading medics
More expensive alcoholic drinks would save thousands of lives and prevent medical experts have said,
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NewsAnalysis: patients in poorer regions using A&E over GP
Patients in the poorest areas are 63 per cent more likely than those in the richest locations to find it hard to see a GP. They are also 53 per cent more likely to attend accident and emergency, according to HSJ analysis of newly published figures.
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NewsPrivate sector faces referral to Competition Commission
The NHS reforms would have “blown up in people’s faces” without last week’s decision to refer the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission, the boss of Circle has told HSJ.
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NewsCost of rising emergency dementia admissions revealed
There has been a 12 per cent growth over five years in the number of people with dementia admitted to hospital as an emergency, according to a report exclusively shared with HSJ.
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NewsTrusts could receive 'unfair' penalties without pressure ulcer guidance
NHS trusts could be unfairly penalised over the prevalence of pressure ulcers unless nationally agreed guidance on recording and measuring the condition is introduced, tissue viability nurses have warned.
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NewsLondon NHS strategy has 'no clear lead'
The NHS in London faces a “strategic vacuum” with no clear lead to drive through change, The King’s Fund has said.
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NewsConcerns over junior doctors' acute care training
Newly qualified doctors do not feel they have the training to look after very ill patients, according to a new study.
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NewsEmbrace NHS competition, Milburn tells Labour
Former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn has warned his successors in the party to back competition in the health service and adopt a more reformist outlook.
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NewsCare homes review website planned
Care homes for older people are to be reviewed and rated by members of the public on a new website, under plans being developed by the government.
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NewsLansley orders Care Quality Commission investigation
Andrew Lansley has ordered a review into the Care Quality Commission’s handling of criticism of its management.
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NewsCommissioning board chair praises NHS’s 'spectacular' record during last decade
NHS Commissioning Board chair Malcolm Grant began the first formal meeting of the organisation by praising the “spectacular increase” in public support for the service under the Labour government.
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NewsCommissioning board names medical and finance chiefs
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has been appointed to the same post on the NHS Commissioning Board, it was confirmed to HSJ at the organisation’s first meeting today.
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NewsHigh-risk surgery care 'poor' for more than half of patients
More than half of high-risk patients undergoing surgery do not receive good care, according to a study which paints a “disturbing” picture of some NHS services.
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NewsPublic sector pensions offer fails to ease dispute
The public sector pensions dispute remained deadlocked tonight despite a move by the government to improve arrangements for more than half a million NHS workers.
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NewsOsborne sets out details of NHS local pay review
Chancellor George Osborne has claimed there is a “clear case” for changing the national NHS pay deal in a letter setting out eight areas to be considered in a forthcoming review.
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NewsPostponement of NHS pension contributions hike for lower paid
An extra 530,000 lower paid staff have been spared from making extra pension contributions next year after the Department of Health made a concession in the long-running pensions dispute.