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Quality accounts: pressure on to pick a winning combination
In 18 months, trusts will have to produce their first quality accounts, based on a selection from hundreds of indicators. Dave West asks how trusts should choose their criteria, and how to act on what they find
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Person based allocations could help tackle health inequalities
Department of Health officials are drawing up a system to target health inequality funding towards the most deprived individuals in primary care trusts' areas, health secretary Alan Johnson has revealed.
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Panel warns of European working time directive's risks
Growing concerns about NHS staffing could lead to service change plans neglecting accessibility and safety, the Independent Reconfiguration Panel has warned.
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Healthcare Commission under fire after hygiene report
A row has erupted between the NHS Confederation and the Healthcare Commission, with the regulator accused of 'talking down' trusts in its latest report on the hygiene code.
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South East Coast flows new funds into diversity networking
NHS South East Coast is spending 200,000 on equality and diversity networks in every trust following a damning review into barriers faced by the region’s black and minority ethnic staff.
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Social care funding split could lead to schemes based on age
Health chiefs are considering splitting social care funding into separate schemes for people of working age and those in retirement.
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Failings in end of life care waste £100m every year
Failings in the commissioning and provision of end of life care services are costing the NHS more than £100m every year.A damning National Audit Office report has found massive service variations, with a difference of more than £1,500 per death between the highest and lowest spending primary care trusts.
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Chancellor unveils plans for NHS cost savings
Primary care trusts will be asked to contribute to an extra £5bn of annual public sector efficiency savings by 2010-11, today's pre-Budget report saysThe report also says an extra £100m in capital funds will be spent upgrading up to 600 GP practices into 'training practices' as part of chancellor Alistair ...
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Help announced to get people fit for work
Sick notes could be replaced by 'fit notes' and fit for work schemes launched for people who have been off work due to sickness, under proposals announced by health secretary Alan Johnson and work and pensions secretary James Purnell.
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Over a quarter of people in UK with HIV unaware of it, says HPA
Twenty-eight per cent of people living with HIV in the UK are unaware they are infected, the Health Protection Agency has said.
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Trafford Healthcare appoints new chief executive
Trafford Healthcare trust has appointed Ron Calvert as chief executive.
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Young people need better mental health services, says charity
Three in four young people with mental health problems are not receiving the treatment they need, according to a report by New Philanthropy Capital.
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Nursing and Midwifery Council 'making progress'
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is making 'real progress on all issues' since a highly critical regulatory review of its work, its stakeholders have said.
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DH reports mixed results on patient experience
The Department of Health has made mixed progress against a commitment to improve patient experience between 2005 and 2008.
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Most hospitals breaching hygiene code - Healthcare Commission
Only one in 10 hospitals is fully compliant with the government's hygiene code, a Healthcare Commission review suggests.Of 51 trusts visited unannounced by the regulator, only five met all the requirements.
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Personal branding: arm yourself with the right image
Is your image secure? In the latest in her series on branding, Debbie Smith offers a guide to reputation management
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New social enterprises to be offered uncontested contracts
New social enterprises in the health sector will be offered uncontested contracts for up to three years.
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Calls for more mental health funding as economic worries increase
Mental health charity Mind has called for more investment in services to help cope with an expected surge in demand caused by the economic downturn.
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Department of Health appoints deputy chief nursing officer
David Foster has been appointed as deputy chief nursing officer at the Department of Health.
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Report reveals financial benefits of medical research
Every pound invested in cardiovascular disease research brings benefits worth 39p a year, forever, academics have calculated.The year-long study into the financial and social benefits of investment in medical research, led by Brunel University, found that for mental health research the benefits were 37p per pound invested each year.