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NewsHertfordshire PCTs merge into one
Hertfordshire will have one primary care trust from next month, following approval from the health secretary to merge the county’s two PCTs.
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NewsMental health trusts best at patient involvement
Mental health trusts have made the greatest efforts to reflect patients’ views in the precursors to formal quality accounts, the Foundation Trust Network has found.
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NewsNHS market reforms are not linked with better care
The introduction of competition to the NHS cannot be shown to have improved the health service, and may have produced extra costs.
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NewsAutism strategy aims to help more adults into work
Adults with autism who wish to live independently are set to benefit from the launch of the first national strategy to help them live fulfilling and rewarding lives.
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NewsOxfordshire chief exec appointed
Sonia Mills has taken over as chief executive of NHS Oxfordshire.
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NewsRoyal Berks chief takes up post
Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust’s new chief executive Edward Donald began work this week, although he does not assume official responsibility for running the trust until 1 April.
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News‘NHS tourism’ under review
Plans to deter “health tourists” from coming to England for NHS treatment have been outlined in a consultation launched by the Department of Health.
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NewsMonitor names interim chief
Monitor has appointed David Bennett as its interim chief executive.
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NewsGive nursing directors greater say on care at board level, says PM's commission
Directors of nursing must be fully accountable for the quality of care provided by nurses in their service or organisation, according to a major report on the future of nursing.
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NewsDavid Nicholson calls for 'more urgency' in stroke care
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson has said trusts must put “more urgency” into meeting the requirements of the national stroke strategy.
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NewsLabour urged to suspend NHS IT programme
A storm is brewing over government efforts to secure a quick fix for the controversial and much-delayed £12.7bn NHS IT revamp before the general election.
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NewsPoll shows narrowing gap between Tories and Labour
The Tories’ general election prospects were dealt a blow today as a second poll in three days suggested Labour was on course to beat them into second place.
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NewsGMC opens consultation on doctor revalidation
Doctors will have to be tested on their performance and undergo annual appraisals under plans to overhaul medical regulation being put out to consultation.
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NewsEmergency medical retrieval service to be extended
Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service will be extended to cover all of remote and rural Scotland, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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NewsColchester chief to step down
The chief executive of a hospital trust has announced he is stepping down - three months after the trust’s chair was sacked by Monitor.
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News‘Blairite’ policy champion joins Tories as an adviser
A former Labourite, doctor and passionate defender of service reconfiguration has become a Conservative Party adviser.
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NewsMid Staffs families to sue for manslaughter
Families affected by failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have said they are planning to sue NHS managers for corporate manslaughter.
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NewsNHS care 'under threat' from working time directive
The quality of NHS care may be under threat from restrictions placed on junior doctors by the introduction of the 48-hour working week, it has been claimed.
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NewsGPs to debate patient data safeguards
Family doctors are to debate for the first time safeguards for a system to share patient data across Scotland, it has been disclosed.
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NewsBasildon 'guilty' over patient death
Officials at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust in Essex have today pleaded guilty to health and safety failings that led to the death of a patient with learning disabilities.