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Capita beats Dr Foster to NHS Choices contract
The Department of Health has announced its intention to award the NHS Choices contract to Capita.
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Mental health managers told: stop posing as Cinderella
Mental health managers have been ordered to promote their services rather than presenting them as a 'bleak Victorian underworld'.
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Bradshaw to bring in firms to boost GP commissioning
Private companies are to help practice based commissioning consortiums put together business cases that primary care trusts can understand.
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Surgery president pushes for faster spread of innovation
Tackling variations in the quality of surgical teams would save more lives than investing in new drugs, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons has claimed.
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NICE calls for quicker access to specialist stroke treatment
Commissioners and providers should ensure all patients with a suspected stroke are admitted as quickly as possible to an acute stroke unit.
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Cynthia Bower to take helm at Care Quality Commission
Cynthia Bower has been appointed chief executive of the Care Quality Commission. The NHS West Midlands chief executive will take up her new job on 1 August.
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Inpatient mental health slammed as commissioners neglect services
Commissioners are neglecting mental health inpatient services despite endemic levels of violence, overcrowding and untrained staff, a damning review has found.Nearly a quarter of mental health inpatient beds are in trusts rated weak by inspectors, according to the first Healthcare Commission review focused on mental health inpatient services.
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Speech and language therapy
The £52m recommended as part of the Bercow review this month will be a great boost for speech and language therapy, enabling children to develop their communication skills.
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Palliative boost
It is welcome news that the government has pledged £286m extra to back up the new strategy for end of life care.
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World class commissioning challenges
As Richard Vize rightly points out, world class commissioning is an ambitious programme of change for primary care trusts. While we must be realistic about how they will perform on competencies at this early stage, the first year of the assurance system will establish the baseline for performance and reflect ...
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Preventing suicides and homicides
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness should continue.
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Research into social policies for deprived communities
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has asked me to look at how policy actors in public, private and non-governmental sectors develop and apply social policies for excluded or deprived communities, focusing on community capacity building. I am looking for examples from housing, health and regeneration.
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A shot in the arm for community health services
The government is promoting the social enterprise model of service provision, but there are other options available to primary care trusts. Ingrid Torjesen offers an overview
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Committee grills Darzi over finances and spin
Lord Darzi was quizzed by MPs last week over whether his vision was not merely ‘warm words’ and how it would be costed.
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Welsh trusts successful in call for their own abolition
NHS trusts in Wales have succeeded in their unanimous push to bring about their own demise.
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Abolition of consultant and GP contracts is a 'logical' move
Abolishing consultant and GP contracts will be the 'logical conclusion' of successful integrated care organisations, NHS director general for commissioning Mark Britnell has claimed.
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Mental health being neglected in the elderly
Older people's mental health and well-being is being severely neglected, claims a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research.Its report Older People and Wellbeing estimates 2.4 million older people have depression and predicts the number with mental health problems will rise dramatically over the next 20 years. This will ...
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Council will oversee Kingston PCT finances
Kingston council and Kingston primary care trust have agreeed to an interim joint director of finance post.
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Wales sets out plan to tackle cancer
A three-year programme to help prevent cancer, improve early detection and increase access to treatment has been published by the Welsh Assembly.
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18-week pathway figures published
The Department of Health has published data for patients who completed their referral-to-treatment pathway during May 2008.