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No time for complacency with the shape of the system at stake
The disagreement between the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and primary care trusts over guidance on saving money presages a big debate facing the NHS over the balance between central and local power in the recession.
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DH must act decisively over bully claim
The implosion of relations between the leadership of United Lincolnshire Hospitals and NHS East Midlands is damaging the reputation of the NHS.
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LIFT-promoting firm is left in ‘disarray’
The government-owned company established to promote private investment in primary care is in “disarray”, according to private sector contractors.
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NICE rebuffs PCTs’ call to help identify more areas for savings
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has rejected calls to identify more drugs and treatments that should be used less - or not at all - ahead of NHS investment cuts.
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Welsh health board plots merger with council
Powys CC is set to merge with Powys Teaching Local Health Board in the latest example of pioneering joint leadership arrangements
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Health partnership aims to put nursing at its ‘heart’
The King’s Health Partners academic health science centre has outlined how nursing and midwifery will be “at the heart” of its work.
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Ministers were warned ahead of Mid Staffordshire approval
Ministers and officials were warned Mid Staffordshire had a precarious business model and had breached its MRSA target by two thirds just eight months before it was authorised as a foundation trust.
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PCT outbreak plans show variety of coping mechanisms
Primary care trusts in the worst affected areas have found a variety of ways of dealing with the outbreak.
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Tower Hamlets PCT works with local mosques
Mosques across London’s worst-hit primary care trust have played a central role in disseminating information about swine flu.
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Lords raise questions on swine flu preparedness
The Lords science and technology committee has highlighted “serious questions” about the UK’s preparedness for swine flu.
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Health board rapped over data loss
The data protection watchdog has criticised a health board in Scotland over two incidents in which patients’ medical records were lost.
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Prescriptions rise but costs fall, NHS Information Centre data reveals
The number of prescriptions handed out to people suffering from allergies, diabetes and obesity increased in a year, although overall costs fell, new figures from the NHS Information Centre reveal.
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NHS must improve drink plans - MPs
MPs have called on the Department of Health to do more to tackle the increasing level of alcohol misuse in England.
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PCT rebranding still has a long way to go
Getting local people to understand the role of primary care trusts has proved difficult, so has the NHS rebranding helped? HSJ polled the public to find out
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DH will probe how row over NHS targets led to bullying claims
The Department of Health is to launch an independent review into allegations of bullying and harassment against East Midlands strategic health authority.
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GPs want more than £700m for swine flu vaccine programme
GP leaders are negotiating for more than £700m in payments for giving people the swine flu vaccine, HSJ has learned.
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Monitor accuses DH of undermining FT independence
Foundation trusts and Monitor have warned that the details of the government’s plans to de-authorise foundations risk “undermining” the trusts and their regulator.
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Older women suffer from breast cancer inequality
Access to breast cancer treatment discriminates against older women, a report has claimed.
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Ethnicity 'not a factor in primary care access'
There is no difference in the way ethnic minorities and their white counterparts access GP services in England or in the clinical outcomes of the care they receive, a study has found.
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Screening shows increase in breast cancer rates
New figures have shown the number of cancers found through breast screening has risen by almost a third in the last five years.