Primary Care – Page 293
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Balance shift tariff pledge
The next 12 months will be a 'difficult' time for the NHS as it tries to get to grips with a tariff system that is still 'unbalanced', the NHS chief executive has admitted.
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Competing commissioners ruled out
The government has no plans to introduce competition between NHS commissioners, the prime minister's health adviser told the NHS Alliance conference.
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Potential conflicts investigated
The Department of Health is 'constantly' checking for conflicts of interests arising for firms such as McKinsey hired to give the government advice, MPs heard last week.
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PCTs want new look at politics
The relationship between the NHS and politicians needs to be 'redefined', according to an NHS Confederation poll of primary care trust managers.
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Arresting idea as community leaders swap jobs for health
A primary care trust chief executive is taking part in a job swap with the local police chief as part of a collaboration aimed at improving healthcare in the area.
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Blair asked to intervene as PCT slashes budget by £25m
A council leader has called on the prime minister to stop a primary care trust cutting its budget by £25m. Mr Blair was dragged into the row after the leader of Brent London borough council threatened to refuse to accept any attempt to shift work from healthcare to social services.
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Operating framework: prepare for worst case, trusts told
Next year's operating framework places a new accent on planning for worst-case scenarios and allowing 'headroom' for change.
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Media watch
'Researchers have found that the 29 primary care trusts in surplus in 2004-05 were mainly in inner-city areas'
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Bupa pulls out of South East diagnostics deal
Bupa has pulled out of a contract with the Department of Health to provide NHS diagnostic services across the South East, HSJ has learned.
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News analysis: Signs of the times - will people power deliver accountability?
Anobligation on PCTs to respond to community views - and protests - about NHS services is one of the most significant aspects of the new commissioning framework. But how might this work in practice? Daloni Carlisle petitions stakeholders for their views
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Local government white paper: Confed urges caution over restructuring
Any changes to local authority boundaries under the local government white paper should be considered very carefully, the NHS Confederation has warned.
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Adolescent services: reaching out to young people
We began offering assessment and intensive treatment in the home, GP surgery, school or even a cafe
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient safety: making the most of an incident
Reporting of patient safety incidents in Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire primary care trusts has been relatively low. An incident learning group, formed in 2004, brings together clinicians and managers to review incident reports, formal complaints and patient advice and liaison services data. Discussion enables common themes and areas of ...
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Comment
Michael White on politics
Halfway through the Queen's Speech debate's NHS segment, Judy Mallaber, former Unison researcher and now Labour MP for Amber Valley, shamed us all by diverting from local UK problems to those of the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose recent elections the MP had helped to monitor for fairness.
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Media watch
So we're at last going to see an end to junk food advertising aimed at children. And with the announcement came the expected outcry from companies that make their money selling bad food to kids, as well as health professionals who say the new rules will not go far enough.
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Media Watch: earnings cap
So ministers have 'blundered' again, according to London's Evening Standard. This time it is because they have failed to cap doctors' earnings.
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MPs' response to angry nurses leaked
The Labour Party has given MPs a model letter to help them deal with nurses furious at last week's below-inflation pay award.
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GP-led firm is favourite to run six London practices for PCT
A London primary care trust has selected a GP-led company as preferred bidder to run six practices.
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Doubts over DoH claims about expert patients
Claims that the expert patients programme will ease pressures on the NHS have been queried by an academic who reviewed the scheme for the Department of Health.