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Hewitt: government should have capped GP profits
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has said the government would have considered capping GPs' earning potential under their contract if it had predicted the extent of their increased profits.Information Centre for health and social care figures show that the percentage of GPs' revenue taken as profit after expenses rose from 40 ...
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Pension guidance released
The Department of Health has produced a guide for staff leaving NHS employment but wishing to continue their membership of the NHS pension scheme.The guidance also sets out advice about employer responsibilities for pension provision where staff have to leave the scheme.Read the guide here
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Labour PRs win SHA jobs
Two former New Labour PR gurus have been appointed directors of communications in strategic health authorities.
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Managers appeal for workforce planning 'reality check'
Managers are calling for health economists to be brought in to give workforce planning a 'reality check'.
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BMA: make targets more ambitious
The NHS should be set more ambitious targets, rather than lay off surplus staff once a maximum 18-week wait has been achieved, the British Medical Association has said.
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A wonderful web we weave
Spiders are helping wards and departments us discover what is working and where improvements are needed, reports Suzanne Hinchliffe
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Cross the divide and rule
Chief executives have switched between primary care and acute trusts. Jenifer Taylor examines how the roles and the demands differ, looks at the reasons behind the moves and discusses with three top managers their plans
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Letters about NEDs
I write as an non-executive director from a disbanded primary care trust. Seen from here, the appointment process to the new PCTs was a farce.
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Gerry Robinson and the NHS
Management guru Sir Gerry Robinson's televised stint at Rotherham foundation trust to reduce waiting lists might have worked better in a trust that has not already achieved so much to place it on a more business-like footing.
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Report calls for more support for employing disabled people
Employers should be trained in the support available in employing a disabled person, according to the Public Accounts Committee.A report on the Department for Work and Pension's support for disabled people says more flexible employment advice should be given to disabled people, that current service provision is patchy and that ...
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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Nurse wins eight-year legal battle
Nurse Gloria Urquhart will receive more than £70,000 from NHS Fife after winning an eight-year legal wrangle following a fall at Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, in 1998. Ms Urquhart fell heavily when a bed moved as she was lifting a patient.Staff had previously reported problems with the beds but it ...
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Leicester chief to go private
Leicestershire Partnership trust chief executive Professor Maggie Cork is to leave the NHS after 20 years to join Four Seasons Health Care as managing director of its Huntercombe Group subsidiary specialised services division for conditions such as mental health and addictions, physical and neurodisabilities, brain injury rehabilitation and children's services.
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Trust chiefs warned on race compliance
The Commission for Racial Equality is going to get tougher on NHS organisations that fail to meet race relations legislation, according to NHS chief executive David Nicholson.He has written to trust chief executives to alert them that the CRE 'will be taking a more proactive stance in exercising their enforcement ...
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Mental health spending must rise, warns Sainsbury Centre
Spending on mental health services should increase by 50 per cent and 38 per cent more staff are needed if the government is to meet 2000's 10-year national service framework plan, according to a report from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.The report, Delivering ...
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Proper workforce planning needed, says BMA chair
British Medical Association chair James Johnson has called on the government to reinstate proper workforce planning - or risk wasting millions of pounds of public money.Speaking at the BMA's 'State of the NHS' briefing, Mr Johnson said: 'In 2008 the year-on-year significant rise in additional NHS resources will fall back ...
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Exclusive: Minister calls for in-house cleaners
Health minister Andy Burnham is to urge the prime minister to encourage trusts to bring cleaning services back in-house.
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Tories claim government has lost faith in SHAs' control of the workforce
The shadow health secretary has accused the government of losing confidence in the ability of strategic health authorities to manage workforce planning.
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GP contract talks collapse over pay
Talks about next year's GP contract have broken down. The British Medical Association said on Tuesday that the offer made by NHS Employers was 'not sufficient' and called on the doctors and dentists review body to recommend an across-the-board uplift for GPs under next year's contract.
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Non-executives 'hurt and devalued' by appointments process
A large number of chairs and non-executive directors have left the NHS feeling 'bruised, hurt and devalued', a report from the NHS Alliance reveals.