NAPC News 1 February 2012
Use Of Independent Sector Will Allow Decisions Based On Quality And Value
In a letter to the Guardian yesterday, NHS Partners Network Director, David Worskett, said claims that the Health and Social Care Bill would lead to the privatisation of the NHS were ‘simply not the case.’
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NAPC News 2 February 2012
Health Bill Changed To Meet Peers Objections
The government has mad 137 late amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill in an effort to ease the concerns of peers.
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, said they were intended to address the ‘remaining issues’ with the Bill,which has attracted criticism from certain quarters of the medical profession.
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NAPC News 27 January 2012 |
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:34 |
NAPC News 27 January 2012
Commissioning Board Warns Of 11 Key Risks
The NHS Commissioning Board has admitted that key risk to its success include the haemorrhaging of senior leaders during the reform transition and a shortage of staff to commission specialist and primary care.
The organisation has set out the 11 most significant risks in a document showing the first detailed proposals for its own design, structure and functions. It was published today.
The document, Design of the NHS Commissioning Board, says one of the main risks to its ‘resilience’ will be trying to run its functions with ’50 per cent less resource by 2014/15.’
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NAPC News 26 January 2012
Gagging Of Whistleblower Doctors Banned
New guidance issued by the General Medical Council has said that doctors will be banned from signing gagging clauses that stop them raising concerns about patient safety.
Niall Dickson, the CEO of the GMC, said: ‘Doctors must not sign contracts that attempt to prevent them from raising concerns with professional regulators such as the GMC. Those who promote or sign such agreements are breaking their professional obligations and putting their careers at risk.’
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