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PCTs urged to master social marketing
Primary care trusts must invest more in expertise in social marketing and profiling, a King’s Fund report recommends.Commissioning and Behaviour Change: kicking bad habits is based on a year-long programme of research by the think tank into how people can be convinced to live more healthily.
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London PCTs to pay off capital's debts
London primary care trusts are to pay off the historic debt of trusts in the capital to prevent it reaching £579m by 2011.Backed by NHS London, the PCTs are proposing establishing a collective fund to pay off the debts, consisting of £304m of 'topslice' funding held by the strategic health ...
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NHS 'wasting time and money' on outsourcing services
The NHS is 'wasting precious time and money' on outsourcing services, trade union Unison is claiming.
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Sir Ian Kennedy to oversee academic health science centre selection
Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy is to oversee the process to select the organisations that will be designated academic health science centres.
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Support for practice based commissioning 'static'
Four in 10 GPs are still not supporting the Department of Health's practice based commissioning initiative, new figures reveal.
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Baby P: beware the mob gathering outside your gates
Anyone working in the health service should fear the implications of the public baying for the blood of social workers and health staff in the wake of the death of Baby P.
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Emma Dent on using the NHS
Pharmacies in my neck of the woods often have large posters that proclaim: 'In (insert name of somewhat notorious London borough) NHS patients can usually choose where to have their treatment' in their windows.
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NHS leadership forum endorses SHA role in developing talent
NHS leaders have rebutted the idea that strategic health authorities will be redundant in an era of strengthened commissioners and trusts.
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National quality board named as NHS prepares for international comparison
The NHS will be compared with its international peers in annual reports by the soon to be created national quality board.
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NHS top-up confusion persists
Campaigners are demanding clarity over whether patients using non drug-based NHS services will be able to 'top up' their care.
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Hygiene inspections: trusts must clean up in fear of harsh penalties
Last week's Healthcare Commission report found most trusts are not sticking to the hygiene code. The launch of the new regulator next year means they may not get away with it for long. Alison Moore reports
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David Nicholson warns against NHS cash hoarding
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told managers it is 'perfectly possible' to improve services despite the government's plans to cut £5bn from planned public spending.
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Eight minute emergency response target holds back service improvement
Unprecedented efforts to meet tough response time targets may be diverting ambulance services from referring and treating more patients out of hospital.
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Effort required on BME mental health inequality
NHS managers must improve mental health services for black and minority ethnic groups, the Healthcare Commission has urged. It also called for 'renewed efforts' to provide more single sex wards.
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Pharmaceutical industry tactics could be blocking generic drugs
The European Commission has uncovered a 'tool box' of pharmaceutical company strategies that may be delaying availability of cheaper generic alternatives to costly patented medicines.
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Scottish NHS underspends this year as tougher times loom
The NHS in Scotland spent less than its total budget last year but watchdogs are warning of tough times ahead.
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Alan Johnson orders Baby P death probe
Health secretary Alan Johnson has ordered two reports into the way NHS organisations protect vulnerable children in the wake of Baby P's death in Haringey.
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Alan Johnson opens UK's first GP led health centre in Bradford
Health secretary Alan Johnson attended the launch of the first GP-led health centre in Bradford last week.
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David Flory: payment by results tariff will be right, not rushed
The Department of Health will postpone plans to introduce a new payment by results tariff next year if it cannot prevent it from financially destabilising specialist hospitals.
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Mental health chief promises a clean sweep
The new chief executive of a troubled mental health trust has pledged to stay in post for at least three years to clear the 'debris' left by her predecessors. Jackie Daniel's post at Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust was made permanent last week.