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Managers focused on cuts not reform

Senior managers are more worried about balancing their finances than grappling with the latest round of NHS reforms, an NHS
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NPfIT failures have left NHS IT “stuck”

A new report by the NHS Confederation has criticised NHS technology for being similar to the “pre-industrial handicraft industry”.
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Many blocks on the road to revolution

Responses to the Information Revolution consultation have registered support for its vision of putting information at the heart of the
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NHS faces ‘defining year’

The NHS is facing a ‘defining year’ in which it may need to make even bigger efficiency savings than so-far
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Call centres urged for GP appointments

GP appointment booking could be centralised in future with national or regional call centres used instead of local practice lines,
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‘Save expertise’: NHS Confederation

Urgent action is needed to retain good staff working for primary care trusts and to preserve organisational memory as the
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Treasury frets about GP commissioning

NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has admitted that the Treasury is concerned abut the government’s plans to hand secondary care
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Lansley: ‘NHS not protected from change’

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has warned the NHS it cannot expect the funding increases it has enjoyed in the recent
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NHS ordered to halve management costs

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at
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Improve PCT data skills, say MPs

Poor quality data analysis skills have played a key part in the failure of many primary care trusts to work
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