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News
Gone but not forgotten - the Labour health team
What people are saying about departing health ministers Ann Keen, Gillian Merron, Mike O’Brien and Phil Hope
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News
Health minister Gillian Merron loses seat to Conservatives
Health minister Gillian Merron has lost her Lincoln seat to the Conservatives.
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News
Election 2010: a candidate watchlist for the NHS
The incoming and outgoing MPs that matter to the health service
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News
Sacked NHS chief launches unfair dismissal claim
An NHS chief executive sacked for swearing too much at work is launching a claim for unfair dismissal, he has confirmed.
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Community
Merron Watch - the election campaign
Purdah left last week’s DH media diary rather empty, but as always Gillian Merron was an unstoppable whirlwind of activity.
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News
Sacked trust chief executive to stand against health minister
A trust chief executive who was sacked from his job is to stand against health minister Gillian Merron in the general election.
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Community
Merron watch: fruit and veg
The ministerial diary is absolutely chocker at the moment as the DH rushes to publish every last report and scrap of policy knocking about the place before pre-election purdah strikes.
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Community
Gillian Merron: back for good?
After a mild lull, possibly due to a dance related injury, public health minister Gillian Merron is back.
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Community
Life in the public [health] eye
It could be argued that public health minister Gillian Merron has had it a tad easy this year. With the exception of a warning that chlamydia should be avoided and a quote about shingles being nasty, she seems to have landed all the fun jobs.
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News
Swine flu website to close
The website and hotline handling swine flu queries are to be switched off due to the fall in the number of cases.
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News
Swine flu preparations cost £1bn
The government spent more than £1bn in preparation for a flu pandemic, it has been disclosed.
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Community
Unhappy new year
January is always a gloomy month and the Department of Health seems determined to keep it that way.
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News
MPs call for minimum alcohol pricing
Minimum pricing for alcoholic drinks, mandatory health warnings on labels and a rise in tax on spirits should be introduced to stem a “shocking” rise in alcohol misuse in England, an MPs’ report has said.
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News
Tories accuse government over A&E waiting targets
The Conservatives claim to have exposed widespread evidence of gaming to meet the four-hour A&E waiting time target.
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News
Childhood obesity 'levelling off'
The rapid rise in child obesity may be levelling off, according to figures.
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HSJ Knowledge
Celebrating the NHS's stop smoking champions
Since the launch of NHS stop smoking services in 1999, the work of doctors, pharmacists, local stop smoking service advisers, nurses, health visitors and others have helped smokers across the UK to quit, saving around 70,000 lives and putting England at the forefront in tackling the damage tobacco does to ...
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HSJ Knowledge
Stop smoking services turn 10: celebrating successes
NHS stop smoking services celebrated their 10-year anniversary last month. In that time, at least 70,000 lives have been saved by the services, according to new figures.
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News
Andy Burnham makes hospital car parking pledge
Health secretary Andy Burnham has pledged to phase out hospital car parking charges for inpatients and their relatives and friends over the next three years.