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Trusts Putting NHS at RiskByline: Jonathan Walker Political EditorThe Birmingham Post (England)
Jonathan Brotherton, chief executive at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said in response to the report's findings: "Patients can continue to be confident that the care and treatment provided at our hospitals is safe. We are pleased th...
More than 37,000 GPs and 21,000 dentists were overseen by the trusts by the time they were abolished in April 2013, and they controlled 80% of the NHS budget. The trusts were largely administrative, responsible for tasks such as contracting out services to the private sector and managing l...
The total cumulative deficit across NHS Trusts as at 31 March 2005 was £598 million (2003-04: £276 million). 6 Strategic Health Authorities have a target of delivering financial balance in aggregate across the NHS bodies within their area (except for NHS Foundation Trusts, which are ...
Professor Joe McDonald, a former NHS clinical leader, dubbed the current rollout of EPRs across trusts “a broken jigsaw” because very few are interoperable. His conclusion: “There is undoubtedly a culture of cover-up in the NHS and nowhere is that stronger than in the health IT sector. ...
responsibility for out of hours and emergency dental pro- vision.' To enable PCTs, Hospital Trusts and other NHS health professionals to find out more, NHS Direct has organised a number of events to be held across the country in January and February 2006, to explain the new services in ...
by University of Birmingham The rise of medical tourism presents significant challenges for the NHS according to new work from academics at the Universities of Birmingham and York. They argue that policy makers have so far failed to address the implications health tourism has on the quality and co...
Charlie Craddock, professor of haemato-oncology at the University of Birmingham and a non-executive director at ACT, said drugmakers were “biting off their arm” to work with the organisation. Roland Sinker, recently appointed by NHS England as an unpaid national director for research and innovat...
Newspaper article from The Birmingham Post (England) Article details Beginning of article Historically, it has not been possible for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to make pay-y ments direct to patients for their own care. The NHS Next Stage Review proposed a move towards patients being more re...