All articles by Dave West – Page 8
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News
Health gap between rich and poor areas narrows
The quality and outcomes framework has reduced the link between low-income areas and poor primary healthcare, a study suggests.
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Comment
Media Watch: overweight children
The issue of overweight children, always a popular topic, was widely reported this week.
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News
Monitor previews foundation trust finances
The regional Darzi plans will at last prompt foundation trusts to spend their surpluses, Monitor's executive chair has predicted.
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News
Urgent call target triggers cash crisis
Ambulance trusts are warning of financial problems caused by efforts to meet a target for response times to life-threatening emergency calls.
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News
Nuffield hopes to avoid merger with health science plan
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre trust is seeking to stave off the threat of a merger by forming an academic health science centre with Oxford University.
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News
London trusts join forces in research venture
University College London and four trusts in the capital are founding Europe's largest academic health science partnership.
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Monitor steps in as trust losses soar
Monitor has exercised its intervention powers for the second time since its creation with a formal notice to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases foundation trust.