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Welsh health minister Edwina Hart moves centre stage
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has axed the internal market and put herself centre stage in a wholesale reform of the country's NHS.
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Direct response to payment by results
The development of a tariff, designed with significant clinician and stakeholder involvement, is a direct response to NHS feedback that the current classification system does not appropriately recognise the range in complexity of procedures and treatments and current clinical processes.This is its main, and as the article recognises, laudable aim.We ...
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Carers behind bars
Thank you Julia Tabreham for putting a spotlight on 'carers behind bars' - prison inmates giving routine care to others who are elderly, vulnerable or ill.
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It takes resources to tackle health inequalities
As primary care trust chief executives in the Core Cities group - England's eight largest cities outside London - we would like to reply to your article on resource allocation.
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NHS managers must fight back with facts and figures
I do wish health service managers would fight back with some hard facts and comparisons about the value of their contributions.
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Insurance model on the cards for elderly care
The Conservatives are considering insurance-based schemes to fund care for the elderly as a way to defuse the 'demographic time bomb'.
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HSJ online debate on world class commissioning - tomorrow
Don’t forget to tune in to HSJ’s free, interactive, online debate on world class commissioning tomorrow morning at 9.30 (2 October).Expert speakers include Gary Belfield, Simon Stevens and Andrew Donald. It will be essential viewing for all those looking to achieve world class commissioning.
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Wales announces radical NHS reforms
Wales' eight acute trusts and 22 local health boards will be replaced with seven unified primary and secondary care organisations under a reform programme that scraps the internal market.
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Scotland next to review NHS top-ups
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has today pledged to review Scottish policy on topping up NHS care with private payments.
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Children's mental health services 'inadequate'
Young people with mental health problems are receiving inappropriate and inadequate care on adult wards because of a continuing shortage of hospital beds and facilities for people under 18, a report by the Children's Commissioner for England says.
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Age Concern seeks views on older people's care
Age Concern is seeking views on how to improve the quality of care and support for older people.
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UK government launches global health strategy
A strategy setting out how the UK government will work with the World Health Organisation and EU to improve world health has been launched.The strategy identifies health security, strong and fair health systems, more effective international health organisations, freer and fairer trade and stronger use of evidence as areas for ...
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No single mental health service for Wales
A separate organisation for Welsh mental health services will not be formed, Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has said.
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Data shows rise in Scottish QOF scores
Figures published today show the average number of points earned by Scottish GPs under the quality and outcomes framework is 982.2 out of 1,000, up from an average of 971.2 points in 2006-07.
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Welsh group to report on NHS funding for non-approved drugs
An expert group set up by the Welsh health minister to look at funding drugs on the NHS that have not been approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is to report in the new year, it has been announced.
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Alcohol retailing consultation to end soon
The Department of Health has called for more responses to a consultation on alcohol retailing. The final date to submit responses is 14 October.
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VSO through the eyes of a health management volunteer
In her regular column from Cambodia, Patricia Sloan looks at how VSO has evolved over the last 50 years
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Tobacco products to get picture warnings
Graphic picture warnings will be introduced on tobacco products from 1 October, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has announced.The Department of Health said smokers were more likely to remember the damage they are doing to their health if they have seen a picture.
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Patient safety reporting system in the pipeline
Anaesthetists and other clinical staff in England and Wales may soon have access to a specially designed system for reporting patient safety incidents and 'near misses'.
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Cancer may be linked to wealth, study finds
An analysis of more than 3,000 cancer patients has found cervical and lung cancer are more common in poor people and breast cancer and melanoma higher in the wealthy.