News – Page 2006
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Six new hospitals approved in £1.5bn PFI spree
The government has approved six NHS private finance initiative hospital developments worth almost £1.5bn.
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New DoH panel for COPD
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has unveiled a panel of 19 experts to help shape improved standards and greater choice for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Warning on Agenda for Change
Health minister Lord Warner has written to all senior managers in the NHS expressing concerns at the slow progress of ensuring contract staff in catering, cleaning and ancillary services are on contracts that give them parity with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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Pension scheme outsourcing delay
The Public and Commercial Services Union has welcomed an announcement by the NHS Business Services Authority that it is to shelve any decision on outsourcing its pension scheme to the private sector until the new NHS scheme has been successfully implemented.
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Ballot on NHS Logistics strike
Workers at the NHS Logistics Authority, which supplies the NHS across England, are set to ballot for strike action in opposition to the awarding of a £4bn supplies contract to Texas-based company Novation and its German partner DHL
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Fresh food roll-out
A new pilot scheme to give freshfood vouchers to low-income families has been judged a success and will be rolled out nationally in November.
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Mental health consent review
The Mental Health Act Commission is reviewing its service which gives a second opinion to patients who refuse consent for treatment or are incapable of giving it.
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Doctors not ready to cope with major incidents
Doctors are not prepared for major incidents, according to the results of a survey by a team from Wycombe Hospital in Buckinghamshire.
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Yorkshire and Humber fills five of nine top PCT posts
Profiles of cohort of new PCT chief executives
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SNP to review free care policy
Scotland's main opposition party has pledged a review of the flagship free personal care policy if it wins power in next year's Scottish Parliament elections.
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Reid loses A&E row in Scotland
Former health secretary John Reid's local hospital is to lose its accident and emergency department under a £300m reorganisation of health services in Lanarkshire.
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Walk-in centres have little effect on inequalities, says report
NHS walk-in centres are having little impact on unequal access to primary care services, with the majority of users being affluent, young and/or white, according to a survey of global evidence and research.
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Waiting time figures for May and June
The Department of Health has published monthly waiting-time statistics covering May and June of this year for 15 procedures including MRI and CT scans, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, cardiology and audiology.
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Community foundation trusts - market forces or forced markets?
The government has backtracked from plans to force the commissioner/provider split, but for PCTs that do make the break, could community foundation trusts be the answer? Jennifer Trueland looks at the next stage of the foundation revolution.
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Only half of PCT top jobs go to old guard
As HSJ went to press, 26 of 47 posts running new PCTs across five SHAs have been filled by PCT chief executives.
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Training and public health hit for £350m to recover deficits
The NHS will only balance its books next year thanks to £350m raided from budgets for public health, training and education, under current plans.
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Staffordshire ambulance chief defends figures after response time probe
Staffordshire Ambulance Service trust acting chief executive Geoff Catling has defended his organisation following a probe into allegations that 999 response times were being fiddled.
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Welsh Ambulance Service gets third chief executive in as many months
The Welsh Ambulance Services trust has appointed a turnaround expert as its permanent chief executive.
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Cancer networks should coordinate commissioning, say charities
A coalition of 29 cancer charities has produced a consultation green paper urging the government to create a new national cancer plan.
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Bishop condemns chaplain redundancies
The Bishop of Worcester has described as a 'piece of destruction' proposals by Worcestershire Acute Hospitals trust to make six chaplains redundant as part of plans to tackle an underlying £30m deficit.