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Use of NHS management consultants must be transparent - Mike O'Brien
NHS organisations will have to be more transparent about their use of management consultants in future, health minister Mike O’Brien has said.
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David Nicholson warns NHS of nightmare winter ahead
A combination of winter pressures and swine flu could lead to delayed ambulances and long waits in accident and emergency, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned.
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Controversial hospital reconfiguration cuts death rates
A controversial hospital reconfiguration has cut death rates and the time patients are staying in hospital, early figures suggest.
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NHS to appoint liver disease tsar
The Department of Health is to recruit an NHS national clinical director to lead the development of a strategy to combat liver disease.
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Community contraception clinics grow in popularity
A report has shown that the number of people using NHS community contraception clinics rose to 1.3 million in the year to March 2009, an increase of 7 per cent on the previous year.
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Sir Ian Kennedy joins King's Fund inquiry into GP quality
Former Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy is to take over the King’s Fund’s inquiry into the quality of general practice in England, it was announced today.
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NHS Alliance debates patient and public involvement in the health service
How best to ensure patients are at the heart of the health service is the subject of an NHS Alliance online debate running for six weeks from 20 October.
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Barts and the London appoints chief executive
Peter Morris has been appointed chief executive of Barts and the London Trust. Mr Morris, who replaced Julian Nettel as interim chief executive of the trust in March, took up the position permanently last week.
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Warning on Asian childhood obesity
Childhood obesity among Britain’s South Asian population is a future health time bomb, according to an NHS Evidence update on ethnicity and health.
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Alcohol admissions could hit one million a year
Alcohol related hospital admissions in England could rise above one million per year in two years’ time, according to the North West Public Health Observatory.
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CQC to target racial health inequalities
Ethnic minorities struggle to get the right healthcare and their health outcomes can be worse than for other patients, the chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has said.
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Private treatment centre returned to NHS control
A privately operated hospital treatment centre is to be brought back under full NHS control, Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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NHS Scotland 'saved £300m'
NHS Scotland made efficiency savings worth nearly £300m in 2008, exceeding the £215m target, according to health secretary Nicola Sturgeon.
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Binge drinking strategies should recognise regional variations
Binge drinking needs to be tackled on a regional basis, according to new research showing that people in different areas of the country give different reasons for drinking to excess.
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Swine flu vaccination programme start date announced
High risk patients and frontline health workers in hospitals will begin being vaccinated against swine flu on 21 October, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has announced.
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Trust's FT application back on track
South Warwickshire General Hospitals Trust’s re-application for NHS foundation trust status has been accepted by Monitor, the independent regulator.
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NHS North of Tyne appoints new executive directors
NHS North of Tyne has appointed two new executive directors.
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Health check improvements mask decline in acute trust performance
The performance of acute trusts in the annual health check has dropped for the first time despite overall improvements in service quality across the NHS.
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PCTs show improvement in annual health check but a slide in excellence
Primary care trusts have improved their overall performance in the 2008-09 annual health check but have slipped back on achieving excellence.
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Mental health trusts shine in annual health check despite tougher tests
More than three quarters of mental health trusts have received good or excellent annual health check scores for service quality, despite far more rigorous assessment this year.