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NewsDavid Nicholson predicts tough NHS pay negotiations
Workers in parts of the NHS can expect pay rises below 1 per cent in coming years, NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has indicated.
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CommunityHSJ Offer - Free cinema tickets to see Astro Boy
Subscribers can get free cinema tickets to see the new film Astro Boy. Sign in now to claim your free tickets. Hurry, tickets are limited
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HSJ KnowledgeTake action to avoid coroners’ reports
Coroners produce rule 43 reports into deaths to prevent future fatalities. Providers must follow a number of steps to stay out of them, says Adam Hartrick
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HSJ Knowledge
Pathology Modernisation
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Pathology Modernisation conference
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HSJ Knowledge
Pathology Modernisation - conference sessions
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Pathology Modernisation conference
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ Leadership Forum - conference sessions
A business critical briefing from HSJ’s Leadership Forum
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NewsKing's Fund highlights risks of quality reporting
A King’s Fund report published today has highlighted the benefits of measuring and reporting on quality of care, but also the significant risks.
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NewsTory reform 'won't be derailed by debt worries'
Financial constraints will not force an incoming Conservative government to ditch the wide-ranging programme of reform the party has drawn up, policy supremo Oliver Letwin has said.
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NewsManager wins compensation after 'wrong colour' dismissal
North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust has said it has “learned many lessons” after it was ordered to pay £115,000 to a nursing chief who was told she was from the “wrong colour and culture”.
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CommunityLookey-Likey: Nuffield Trust and the Village People
HSJ was surprised to come across a snap of a dodgy Village People tribute act on the Nuffield Trust’s website.
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NewsRise in acute admissions will be ‘unsustainable’ for PCTs
Just 10 per cent of primary care trusts have successfully reduced emergency admissions to their local acute trusts.
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NewsFears over staff vetting and barring scheme
A registration scheme to protect vulnerable people will force managers to make moral judgements about people’s lifestyles and place a “significant” financial burden on the NHS, HSJ has been told.
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CommunityExpletive tweeted
Conservative leader David Cameron was desperate not to slip up during a live webcast at the King’s Fund. He was answering questions submitted by the public via email and Twitter - despite having famously called users of the website a rude word during a radio interview last year.
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NewsCare UK chief hits out at renewal process as ITC contracts expire
The process for renewing contracts for the first independent treatment centres has been described as a “pig’s ear” by the chief executive of the largest independent provider in that sector.
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LeaderThis is PCTs’ admission of failure – but everyone shares the blame
Analysis of primary care trusts’ emergency and elective admissions data, shared exclusively with HSJ by health intelligence provider CHKS, reveals that in the majority of areas, both trends are going in the wrong direction: upwards.
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CommentCan healthcare spending thaw icy economies?
Health spending represents great value both as a short term economic stimulus and for its long term economic benefits.
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NewsMPs told to ‘free’ PCTs of acute commissioning
Primary care trusts should be “released” from commissioning acute care and left to concentrate on improving primary and community services, MPs have been told.
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NewsNHS East of England urged to work better with PCTs
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has advised East of England strategic health authority to make “demonstrable improvements” in its relationships with primary care trusts.
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NewsElder care pilot slashes hospital admissions
A pilot programme for improving care of older patients has slashed hospital overnight stays and accident and emergency attendances, and produced significant financial savings.