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Alliance: PBC will transform health service
The NHS Alliance has given practice-based commissioning a vote of confidence in a report released today.Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to transform the NHS but there has been a slow start due to primary care trust reconfiguration.He warned the policy would not go far enough if ...
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Joint project to reduce falls in patients
According to a new study, closer working between pharmacy and physiotherapy services may improve care for older people at risk of falls.Research carried out at Guy's and St Thomas' foundation trust found that many older patients who have fallen would benefit from having their medicines reviewed.
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Nuffield trust gets interim director
Dr Neil Goodwin CBE has been appointed as interim director of the Nuffield Trust and will work to develop the future strategy of the charity's programme of research.
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Johnson delivers speech on health inequalities
Health secretary Alan Johnson will deliver a speech on health inequalities to the New Health Network today.
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Call for HIV test kit review
The Terrence Higgins Trust is urging the government to change the law and allow people to buy and use home test kits for HIV.
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New study claims that the pill may cut cancer risk
The contraceptive pill may reduce the risk of cancer for most women, according to a study published by the British Medical Journal.
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Kennedy steps down from genetics commission
The chair of the Human Genetics Commission, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, has announced that she is stepping down.
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chan wheeler
The new commercial director at the Department of Health has committed himself to breaking down barriers and creating a level playing field in the NHS to enable the independent sector to provide care.Speaking at the inaugural annual conference on the independent sector Chan Wheeler delivered his first public address after ...
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Maggie Rae
The head of the local delivery and health inequalities unit has become the latest senior Department of Health employee to return to the frontline.Maggie Rae has become the director of health at Wiltshire primary care trust.Ms Rae was seconded to the DoH for two years from the National Institute for ...
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Early wins, early lessons
Practice based commissioning has received a vote of confidence in the NHS Alliance report Practice based commissioning: early wins, early lessons released today.The report looks in depth at instances of PBC working well and saving money across the country.Chairman of the Alliance Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to ...
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Practice based commissioning
Practice based commissioning has received a vote of confidence in the NHS Alliance report Early wins, early lessons, released today.Chairman of the Alliance Dr Michael Dixon said PBC was going to transform the NHS but there has been a slow start due to primary care trust reconfiguration.He warned PBC would ...
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Even greater investment could be needed, warns Wanless
The NHS will need even higher levels of funding over the next 20 years unless worrying trends in productivity and obesity are tackled, according to the Wanless report for the King's Fund.
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Research project recruits volunteers
NHS patients in England will be invited to take part in a multi-million-pound medical project that will research life threatening and debilitating diseases.Supported by the Department of Health, UK Biobank will recruit people aged 40-69 and track their health over the next 30 years.
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Healthcare education consultation under way
Skills for Health has begun a three-month consultation on a new quality assurance framework for healthcare education.
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New consultant adviser for chief dental officer
Chief dental officer for England Dr Barry Cockcroft has announced the appointment of Professor Paul Wright as his consultant adviser.
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wanless comments
Stephen Thornton, chief executive, Health Foundation:The recommendations are all very good and all very worthy but are about what government should do to the health service.They are not asking how you bring about the culture change needed to get clinicians thinking about how they can improve the quality and safety ...
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Roadmap
Junior health minister Lord Darzi's polyclinics have received yet more criticism from clinicians as the Royal College of GPs has published its vision of the future.The Roadmap joins the British Medical Association and the NHS Alliance in criticising the term polyclinics and suggests an alternative model.The report says: 'We caution ...
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Secure hospital numbers reach record high
The number of people detained in secure medium and high psychiatric wards in England reached a record high of 3,723 in July, according to a study by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. The study found that most secure patients stay for less than five years and have been admitted ...
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Scottish Smoking ban nib
The Scottish smoking ban has led to a significant advance in public health, according to a study of the measure.Comparisons at nine hospitals revealed that there was a 17 per cent year-on-year drop in heart attack admissions since the ban was introduced in March 2006. It says that the ...
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Health gap
A north-south gap in health is more than 30 years in some areas exists between communities in England and Wales, according to new government figures.The Office for National Statistics measured 'healthy life expectancy' and found that people in Didcot could expect 86 healthy years while in parts of Middlesborough the ...