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    Johnson pledges better care for minority ethnic groups

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Black and minority ethnic people are not getting the primary healthcare they need, a government report has shown.

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    Independent sector still struggling on data

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    The independent sector is still struggling to provide good quality data on its NHS activities, the NHS Information Centre has revealed.

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    SHA releases psychiatric killers' reports

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Two reports into psychiatric patients who killed have been released by NHS East of England - more than five years after the incidents.

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    Bruce Keogh speaks at Patient Safety Congress

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Managers are still treating patient safety as 'subordinate' to money despite the health service's £1.8bn underspend, according to the NHS medical director.

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    Councils could lose social care funds to DWP

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Local councils could be stripped of their control over the 7bn adult social care budget under proposals being explored for the forthcoming social care green paper.

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    Stephen Ramsden addresses Patient Safety Congress

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    NHS managers have been urged to pressurise chief executives to make patient safety their organisation's top priority.

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    Commercial directorate's future in the air

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    The future of the Department of Health's commercial directorate is in doubt following the resignation of its director general Channing Wheeler.

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    Safer culture is taking root

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Your cover story identified a disparity between where NHS staff and leaders feel patient safety is on boards' priorities, writes Martin Fletcher

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    Patient records neglect

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    We are not surprised to learn of the wide disparities between trusts when it comes to the availability of patient records revealed by your investigation, writes Tracy Steadman

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    Alcohol and public health

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    The Health is Wealth Commission's recommendation that local authorities use the planning process to reduce the harm done to public health by easily available alcohol is bound to provoke a stormy debate, writes Frank Soodeen

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    BMA muddled over polyclinics

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Our independent patient-interest social enterprise has consultated on the complex issue of GPs and polyclinics. The British Medical Association's campaign to persuade patients to oppose them is ill-judged and muddled, writes Elizabeth Manero

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    Baroness Young is right for new regulator

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    We welcome the appointment of Baroness Young as the shadow chair of the Care Quality Commission, writes John Dixon

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    Fuel disaster looming

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Your news analysis on rising fuel prices and its impact on hospitals was timely but it only scratched the surface, writes Stuart Jeffery

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    BMA pay hypocrisy

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    The hypocrisy of the British Medical Association's contrasting pay policy for staff and doctors is no surprise, writes Joyce Robins

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    NHS sixties memories

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Your photos of people who worked in healthcare in the 1950s and 1960s on your NHS60 website (www.nhs60.co.uk) have brought memories flooding back, writes Susan Bethell

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    Darzi review: North East sets targets for 'region of paradox'

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    Eight-month targets designed to eliminate health service 'paradoxes' are the cornerstone of NHS North East's Darzi vision.

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    Share rising mental health costs, says King's Fund

    2008-05-29T09:00:00Z

    The cost of mental health services is expected to rise by 45 per cent over the next 20 years, the King’s Fund has predicted.But in its long-awaited report on the future funding of mental health services, it says the NHS should not be expected to fund the increased cost alone.

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    Hospital trusts failing to check inpatients' risk of deadly clots

    2008-05-29T00:00:00Z

    More than half of hospital trusts are not carrying out government-backed checks for vascular conditions that kill around 25,000 people a year. Only 29 per cent of trusts carry out checks for all inpatients.

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    GPs call for public support

    2008-05-28T09:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association today placed adverts in five national newspapers in a bid to drum up public support for a campaign against private companies running GP surgeries.

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    Campaign for better stroke care

    2008-05-28T09:00:00Z

    Nine out of 10 stroke survivors in England are left unsupported and isolated, according to new figures from the Stroke Association, which today launched an awareness campaign.