Latest news – Page 1503
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News‘Immediate’ need for GP data system
The government has given its backing to a delayed national IT system which would collect swathes of information about primary care.
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News£750m spent by NHS on locum doctors
NHS hospitals spend more than £750m a year on hiring temporary doctors - and the cost has almost doubled in two years, figures suggest.
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NewsSecure mental health bed shortage criticised
Prisoners in need of treatment at secure mental health hospitals often have to wait months for a bed, the director of an NHS trust has said.
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NewsHakin warns against consortia using PCTs for commissioning support
GP consortia should not just purchase management support from recreated primary care trusts, Department of Health managing director of commissioning and development Barbara Hakin has warned.
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NewsOlympics corporate sponsorship a 'challenge' to public health
The line-up of likely fast food and alcohol sponsors to the London 2012 Olympic Games represents a public health “challenge”, the NHS lead for the event has said.
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NewsEx-Mid Staffs chief executive 'may not appear'
The former chief executive of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust may not appear at the public inquiry into the care provided at the organisation due to ill health.
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NewsSHA failing on stroke care
South Central is the only strategic health authority in England to have failed to improve stroke care.
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NewsPatients Association rubbishes local invovement networks
The Patients Association has criticised the current patient involvement system and expressed doubt about white paper plans to reform it.
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NewsManagers and junior doctors to meet in Second Life
Junior doctors and senior managers are to meet in Second Life tomorrow to discuss how the two groups can collaborate to improve the quality of health services.
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NewsSmoking cessation rates 'follow economy downwards'
The rate at which people are quitting smoking has slowed down at the same time as economic worries have increased, data suggests.
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NewsNHS Choices site 'saves millions'
Encouraging people to self-diagnose via the NHS Choices website saves the health service millions of pounds every year, according to a newly published study.
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NewsCall to slash Scotland's 22 health boards
It is “impossible to justify” Scotland’s 22 health boards, Labour has said.
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NewsMid Staffs inquiry 'will probe every nook and cranny'
The public inquiry into major failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust will “explore every relevant nook and cranny” in a bid to find out why appalling standards of care were allowed to continue, the lawyer leading the probe said today.
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NewsProtest delays Stafford Hospital public inquiry
The start of a public inquiry into major failings at a trust has been delayed when an angry relative staged a protest.
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NewsGovernment backtracks to hand maternity to GPs
The government is preparing to perform a U-turn on its decision to plan and fund maternity nationally and instead hand responsibility to GPs, HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has learned.
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NewsStafford Hospital public inquiry to begin
A public inquiry will begin today into failings at an NHS hospital criticised for routinely neglecting patients and providing appalling standards of care.
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NewsStrategic NHS planning 'may follow SHAs into oblivion'
A lack of strategic health planning will follow the demise of strategic health authorities and primary care trusts, senior NHS figures have warned.
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NewsLabour challenges NHS funding claim
Labour has challenged the government’s claim to have protected spending on the NHS, claiming that when the cost of social care is taken into account the health service is in fact facing a £500m real-terms cut in funding.
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NewsMost councils 'expect social care service cuts'
More than half of local authorities in England fear budget pressures will affect care services that help elderly people and adults with disabilities to live at home, according to a new survey.
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NewsBudget squeeze 'putting NHS under severe pressure'
The NHS is under “severe pressure” because of staff shortages, recruitment freezes and redundancies, the largest public sector union has warned.