All articles by Sally E Gainsbury – Page 5
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'Struggling' coders threaten tariff improvements in 2009
Research commissioned by the Department of Health has warned of huge problems in the way hospital services are measured and costed, saying they could undermine payment by results.
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DH announces new IT and information leads
The Department of Health has appointed the former IT chief for Cadbury Schweppes as the chief information officer for the NHS. Christine Connelly will lead the overall information strategy across the NHS.
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Media Watch: Is Johnson leaving the DH?
Alan Johnson's days at the Department of Health may be numbered. The Labour leadership crisis sparked by David Miliband and bored lobby correspondents has led to speculation the health secretary will be elevated either to the top job or deputy prime minister.
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BBC to take a role in NHS Choices site
The BBC and Picker Institute are preparing to play a role in the running of the NHS Choices website, alongside outsourcing giant Capita.
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£550m set aside to fund Darzi
The Department of Health has set aside £150m from next year's NHS budget and £400m in 2010-11 to pay for the commitments set out in health minister Lord Darzi's review.
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Accounting rule changes to cost hospitals £146m
New accountancy rules will bring up to 16bn of extra debt onto the NHS balance sheet and cost hospitals 146m a year.
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Survey finds foundation trusts' hidden private income
Foundation trusts earned up to £70m more income from private patients last year than their accounts show, a confidential report for the regulator Monitor suggests.
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Massive variation in Ritalin prescribing
There is a 23-fold difference in the rate at which children in different parts of England are prescribed Ritalin to control their behaviour, figures seen by HSJ reveal.
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Trust says go-it-alone plan is reinforced by IT review
The chief executive of a foundation trust installing IT outside the national programme has said its actions are validated by last week's informatics review.
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Trusts stare published death rates in the face
Hospital public relations departments have given the Department of Health a mixed review after it published mortality rates for four kinds of operation last week.
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Summer of suspense for PCTs awaiting funding allocations
Primary care trusts will need to wait until at least October to hear what their funding will be for the next two years.
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Royal colleges call talks to confront academy failings
A 'crisis meeting' has been called over the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' future amid infighting between member organisations.
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Treasury set to rein in public spend
The Treasury has launched a fresh public sector efficiency review in a bid to keep an ever tighter rein on the public sector finances.
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Shift in IT policy as trusts told they can develop their own system
The Department of Health has signalled a shift in the national programme for IT that will see it supporting NHS organisations that want to develop their own systems.
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Hospital death rates published
Death rates for four hospital procedures will be published by the Department of Health today in a move designed to help patients make more informed choices.
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Cancer firm expects NHS to fall short
A private company has invested around £30m in three new private cancer centres, underlining its belief that the NHS will fail to meet the rising demand for cancer treatments.
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Euro providers could claim place on choose and book
European health providers could launch claims to be included in GP choose and book systems to give them the same access to the NHS market as those in the UK.
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Economist calls for NHS Bank to hold foundation surpluses
Foundation trusts should be able to store their £2.3bn surpluses in an 'NHS bank' for use by rest of the health service, MPs have been told.
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Hospitals may lose out in plan to make funds follow student
The shake-up of education and funding for training proposed by Lord Darzi could have a 'major destabilising impact' on established teaching hospitals.
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Leadership roles for clinicians get a boost from Darzi
Lord Darzi's workforce strategy unveils sweeping reforms to workforce planning and education.