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DoH predicts break-even by next financial year
Figures for the third quarter of the financial year show that the NHS is in line to break even and will be well placed for the start of the next financial year, according to Department of Health figures.Strategic health authorities are due to make £450m of savings from central budgets.Read ...
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iSoft target of takeover talks
Shares in iSoft, the troubled provider to the national IT programme, rose almost 10 per cent on Friday amid speculation over its future.An Australian health information company called IBA Health revealed it is considering a bid for the UK software developer. Earlier last week, it was reported that talks between ...
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Still a long way to go, say Mental Health Bill campaigners
The Mental Health Bill, which enters report stage in the House of Lords today with some concessions from government, is in need of much more amendment, the Mental Health Alliance has said.Alliance chair Andy Bell said the bill 'contains too many new powers to detain people and use compulsion outside ...
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Oxford University given infant bleeding research funds
WellBeing of Women, a UK charity which funds research and raises awareness of reproductive health, has awarded a grant of over £22,500 to Dr Jennifer Kurinczuk at the Oxford University to research infant bleeding caused by fetomaternal alloimmune thrombocytopenia.FMAIT is the most common cause of severe neonatal thrombocytopenia (a decrease ...
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Thirteen areas make 18-week target pledge
Thirteen local health communities today pledged to meet the government's 18-week treatment target a full year before the rest of the NHS.The government has said that by the end of 2008, patients can expect a maximum wait of 18 weeks from referral to the start of treatment. Eighteen weeks is ...
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Milton Keynes PCT names preferred bidder
Milton Keynes primary care trust has appointed Guildhouse as its preferred bidder to build health and care premises over the next 25 years, starting with the Wolverton Health Centre later this year.The 3,000sq m supersurgery will be part of the South East Midlands local improvement finance trust and will house ...
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DoH Publishes prescription charges consultation
The Department of Health has published a consultation document on changes to the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 to enable primary care trusts in England to charge chemists for NHS pharmaceutical applications.If chemists are not on a PCT list they cannot dispense NHS prescriptions or provide NHS pharmaceutical services. The ...
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Death rates warning for deprived areas
Death rates in deprived areas of Scotland are falling more slowly than in affluent areas, according to research from the Medical Research Council.Its analysis of death records between 1980 and 2002 shows that the age standardised mortality rate fell by 30 per cent for men and 25 per cent for ...
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Death rates warning for deprived areas
Death rates in deprived areas of Scotland are falling more slowly than in affluent areas, according to research from the Medical Research Council.Its analysis of death records between 1980 and 2002 shows that the age standardised mortality rate fell by 30 per cent for men and 25 per cent for ...
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A&E attendances down 1.2 per cent
Attendances at accident and emergency departments fell year on year by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter, but admissions through A&E rose by 2.4 per cent to more than 750,000.Figures from the Department of Health published today show that in the three months to the end of December 2006 ...
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Minister launches coding strategy
Health minister Lord Hunt has launched a strategy document on using auto identification data capture technologies.Coding for success - simple technology for safer patient care encourages the NHS and medical industry to use a standard coding system to help prevent medical error, increase efficiency and save money.Read the press release ...
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Acute and PCT indicators extended
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Department of Health want to extend the current 13 quarterly Better Care, Better Value indicators for primary care trusts and acute trusts to 30 from the start of the next financial year.DoH commissioning director Duncan Selbie and NHS Institute chief executive ...
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Burnham plans NHS 60th birthday celebrations
Plans to mark the 60th birthday of the NHS next year by formalising its core values in a written constitution are to be put to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown by Andy Burnham, the health minister responsible for NHS reform.Mr Burnham said the constitution could include 10 core principles that ...
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Progress on cancer reform strategy
National cancer director Professor Mike Richards has announced progress on the strategy for the reform of cancer services in England.In a letter to the NHS he said that work on the strategy was 'well in hand'. He cited opportunities in new technology and drugs to help people live longer and ...
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Smoking 'police' given power to fine public
Thousands of council staff are being trained to police the smoking ban in bars, restaurants and shops in England.Ministers have given councils £29.5m to pay for staff, who will be able to give on-the-spot £50 fines to individuals and take court action against premises.They will have the power to enter ...
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Commissions launch children's injury report
The Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission have today launched their Better Safe than Sorry: preventing unintentional injury to childrenreport.The report shows that each year there are approximately two million attendances by children at hospital accident and emergency departments as result of accidents that may ...
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PCTs failing to take sexual health seriously
Government initiatives to make sexual health a priority are not getting through to the frontline, according to a survey published today by sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.The findings show that Choosing Healthmoney intended for sexual health has been diverted elsewhere by almost ...
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Stopping needless operations could save £100m, says London Health Observatory
Stopping unnecessary operations could save London's NHS almost £100m, according to new research.
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Trusts poach sexual health funding
Funds which should have gone to sexual health have been diverted elsewhere in almost two-thirds of primary care trusts, according to a survey by the Terrence Higgins Trust.
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LINks will fail public, warns CPPIH chair
Government proposals to make the NHS more accountable to patients will actually exclude the public from long-term decisions worth billions, MPs heard last week.