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Half of trusts meeting annual health check standards
Only half of trusts have said they met all standards assessed in the annual health check during the financial year 2008-09.
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NewsHeatwave planning gets PCTs hot under the collar
While public attention has been diverted by swine flu, the predicted heatwave this summer also poses a danger to life, particularly to older people
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NewsChanges at the top at Devon and Hampshire PCTs
The chief executive of Devon primary care trust has resigned to take up a new post in New Zealand.
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NewsHealth science centre appoints managing director
The UCL Partners academic health science centre has appointed David Fish as managing director.
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NewsIntegrated care pilot to be investigated
One of the Department of Health’s integrated care pilot schemes is to be investigated by the co-operation and competition panel to see if it breaches merger, choice and competition rules.
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NewsReform or 'go broke', Obama tells US doctors
The US must reform its health insurance system or face “going broke”, president Barack Obama has told the country’s doctors.
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NewsTwo health boards to pilot direct elections
Members of the public will be directly elected to the boards of NHS Fife and NHS Dumfries and Galloway from next year, Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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News'Bloodbath' warning over public sector jobs
A warning that the public sector could lose up to 350,000 jobs over the next five years has been issued by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
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NewsIVF blunder prompts calls for better fertility services
An IVF blunder that denied a couple the chance of another baby has led to calls for an increase in the number of treatment cycles available on the NHS in Wales.
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NewsLeeds chief exec leaves for Medical Education England
Leeds primary care trust chief executive Christine Outram has been appointed managing director of Medical Education England, the new national workforce training and planning body.
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NewsBarbara Hakin and Andrew Cash top health honours list
East Midlands strategic health authority chief executive Dr Barbara Hakin has been made a dame in the Queen’s birthday honours.
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NewsCalls for NHS to fund costly drugs 'blinkered', says NICE
A senior member of the UK’s drugs watchdog has labelled people who demand expensive drugs on the NHS as “blinkered”.
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NewsChlamydia screening of young people fails to meet targets
A programme that checks young people for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia is failing to hit its targets, figures show.
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NewsUK woman dies from swine flu
Health chiefs are continuing to look into the first UK death of a patient suffering from swine flu.
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NewsNHS hospital acquired infection cases rise
Figures from the National Audit Office which show that some hospital infections may be rising have prompted accusations that the government has been “neglecting” the problem.
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NewsQuality anxiety prompts cervical screening recall in Kent
Hundreds of women in Kent are being asked to repeat their cervical smear tests amid concerns that a nurse involved was not suitably qualified to carry out the tests.
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NewsAvoid tendering pitfalls, warns NHS competition panel director
Co-operation and competition panel director Andrew Taylor has revealed some of the basic mistakes primary care trusts have made when tendering out services.
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NewsMark Britnell quits NHS for private sector
HSJ has learned Mark Britnell, NHS director general for commissioning and system management, is to join consultancy KPMG.
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NewsPlan for cuts, David Nicholson warns NHS Confed conference
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned the NHS must plan for real terms cuts, despite protestations from the government and the Conservative opposition that they would continue to give it real terms increases. Read on for video interviews with David Nicholson and managers attending the NHS Confederation conference 2009 ...
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NewsNHS staffing levels 'to remain static'
Funding shortfalls and cutbacks mean NHS staffing levels will likely remain static at best over the next five years, experts have said.