News – Page 962
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NewsTrusts risking fines with mixed-sex wards
Thousands of patients are still being cared for in mixed-sex accommodation despite the fact that trusts face being fined for the practice from next month.
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NewsConfed calls for brakes to be put on personal health budgets
The NHS Confederation is calling on the Department of Health to delay a national roll out of personal health budgets to allow further evaluation to take place.
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Heart surgeons call for strong revalidation regime
A leading heart surgeon has called for the planned doctor revalidation system to be toughened up after a study found many NHS clinicians were reluctant to make use of outcomes data.
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NewsWatch live: King's Fund findings on the quality of general practice in England
Watch as the King’s Fund unveils the findings of its inquiry. Live on 24 March, 8.30am to 10am.
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NewsOsborne backs Hutton on pensions but promises 'no cherry picking'
Chancellor George Osborne has accepted Lord Hutton’s recommendations on public sector pensions as a “basis for consultation” with unions.
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NewsLabour’s ex-health minister calls for NHS price competition and more private provision
Health Policy Insight editor Andy Cowper reviews Lord Norman Warner’s new book A Suitable Case for Treatment – the NHS and reform.
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NewsNHS workforce growth revealed
NHS staffing levels in England have seen huge growth in the last 10 years, particularly among managers, according to new figures.
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NewsNHS reforms 'could lead to US-style system'
The government’s health reforms will spell the end of the NHS and could lead to a US-style system, according to researchers.
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NewsConfed lobbies for working time directive changes
European working time regulations must change to improve care and reduce costs for acute providers, according to the NHS Confederation.
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NewsTrusts back reorganisation of services
Two hospital trusts in Shropshire are backing the reorganisation of services despite opposition from more than 20,000 local residents.
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Unison hits out at health pay freeze
The government has come under attack after confirmation that the pay of more than a million health workers is going to be frozen for two years.
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NewsBad habits in young people falling, study suggests
The number of youngsters in Scotland drinking alcohol at least once a week has fallen by more than a third over the last decade, according to a study.
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NewsNHS satisfaction at 'all-time high'
More than 60 per cent of people in the UK are “very or quite happy” with the NHS, meaning patient satisfaction is at an all-time high, an expert has claimed.
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NewsPublic sector workers unhappy, survey reveals
More than half of public sector workers would consider taking industrial action, according to a study released as activists prepare for an anti-cuts protest in London.
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NewsNHS 'must publish performance data'
The NHS should undergo a culture change and improve services to patients by publishing performance data, according to a report.
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NewsCost of locum doctors expected to rise
The cost of locum doctors in the Scottish NHS has almost doubled over the past four years to more than £36m, according to Scottish government figures.
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NewsPublic health transition 'road map' underway
A “mapping exercise” is underway to indicate how the public health workforce will be moved over to local authorities, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsFormer Blair health adviser returns to Cameron's number 10
A consultant who led the health targets and finances team of Tony Blair’s delivery unit has been appointed as the new health adviser to 10 Downing Street.
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NewsGPs 'to become change agents' - Lord Warner
The government’s planned reforms will “throw down the gauntlet to clinicians and give them their head to produce significant change”, according to the coalition-appointed chair of the Social Care Funding Commission.
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NewsReport into C diff deaths at hospital delayed
The results of an inquiry into a hospital bug outbreak that claimed 18 lives will be delayed by more than a year.