All Cancer articles – Page 56
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NewsAdvanced cancer scanning centre officially opened
A new £16.5m hospital centre which features a state-of-the-art high-resolution scanner has been officially opened.
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Reconfiguration halted in NHS Somerset
STRUCTURE: Plans to centralise gynaecological cancer services in the NHS Somerset area have been shelved after they failed to meet the new reconfiguration tests.
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Cancer tsar offers risk sharing deal for Manchester cancer network
PERFORMANCE: Greater Manchester’s hospitals could share responsibility for meeting cancer hospital the Christie’s 62 day waiting target, under a deal proposed by the government’s cancer tsar.
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CommentMichael White: somwhere to escape the cuts
Wherever you turn at present it’s hard to escape the government’s cuts programme. I confirmed that (again) when I rang my sister at the nursery-infant-and-parenting unit she has worked in for many years. Their budget has been slashed, redundancies loom. Should she volunteer to go, taking decades of experience with ...
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The Christie could face red rating due to 'flawed' cancer waiting times target
PERFORMANCE: Care services minister Paul Burstow has written to the foundation acknowledging that its difficulties meeting the 62 day cancer treatment waiting times target are due to problems in the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network ‘as a whole’.
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PCT delivers just 1 per cent of screening results on time
PERFORMANCE: Only 1 per cent of cervical screening results were delivered within the two week target at NHS Shropshire County during the first half of 2010-11.
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St Helens and Knowsley unveils new skin cancer treatment
PERFORMANCE: The Trust is the first in the North West to provide patients with a ground-breaking new treatment for skin cancer.
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NewsCancer death rates in Europe 'to fall'
The number of people dying of cancer throughout Europe will fall this year, experts have predicted.
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Clatterbridge mulls participation in Liverpool academic health sciences centre bid
STRUCTURE: The foundation is contributing to work to revisit plans for an academic health sciences centre in Liverpool, after an initial bid was turned down by the Department of Health.
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Salford Royal scores highly in cancer patient experience survey
PERFORMANCE: The foundation has achieved some of the best scores in the country in the Department of Health’s largest ever survey of the experiences of cancer patients.
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Only third of head and neck cancer patients treated within 62 days
PERFORMANCE: Royal Wolverhampton Hospital Trust is treating only a third of patients with head and neck cancer within 62 days of referal.
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New facilites for Gloucestershire Hospitals FT
STRUCTURE: Gloucestershire Hospitals FT has reorganised a number of services and secured funding for a £7.7m radiotherapy facility.
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National cancer unit opens at Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
STRUCTURE: The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust has opened a new £313,000 national cancer facility for patients aged 13 to 24.
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NewsGroundbreaking radiotherapy equipment goes into service
A new radiotherapy device that could transform the way some cancer patients are treated will be used from today.
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NewsCancer care overhaul needed, says Macmillan
A leading cancer charity is calling for an overhaul of NHS care for cancer survivors, as the number of people overcoming the disease looks set to double over the next 20 years.
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Cancer deaths on rise in Liverpool
PERFORMANCE: Cancer mortality rates in Liverpool have risen for the last four recorded quarters, local monitoring by the primary care trust has found.
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Royal Bournemouth ahead on cancer
PERFORMANCE: The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals FT is outperforming all seven targets on cancer waiting times.
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NewsLive interview to discuss cancer strategy on HSJ TV
Experts are to discuss the Department of Health’s updated cancer plan live online.
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'Very disappointing' breast cancer performance from Walsall Hospitals
PERFORMANCE: Walsall Hospitals Trust is reporting “very disappointing” year to date performance after missing a target that 93 per cent for referring patients with suspected breast cancer to consultants within two weeks.
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HSJ KnowledgeSetting a course for consortia: an HSJ and doctors.net.uk discussion
In mid-December, just ahead of the release of the 2011-12 operating framework and the response to the consultation on the Liberating the NHS white paper, HSJ and doctors.net.uk held a roundtable debate on consortium commissioning.