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    £11m donation for Great Ormond Street

    2007-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Great Ormond Street Hospital has received a £11m donation from the Barclay Foundation.

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    QOF does not lead to good diabetes care

    2007-11-21T00:00:00Z

    The all-party parliamentary group on diabetes has called for a review of the diabetes care indicators in the quality and outcome framework.

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    Intelligence NIBS

    2007-11-21T00:00:00Z

    Intelligence NIBSLondon ITAs part of the NHS London Programme for IT six of the capital's mental health trusts are now using computerised patient record systems, installed by BT in its capacity of local service provider for London. New systems have been installed in North East London, West London, South West ...

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    consultants contract

    2007-11-21T00:00:00Z

    NHS managers were ‘left in the dark’ over what the government wanted from the consultants’ contract, a damning report has found. The Commons public accounts committee report says consultants are working fewer hours than they did under the old contract even though their pay has gone up by 27 per ...

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    10,700 deaths blamed on DVT failures

    2007-11-20T00:00:00Z

    An all-party parliamentary report has found that more than 10,700 hospital patients may have died as a result of trusts' failure to implement key recommendations on deep vein thrombosis published over seven months ago.

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    Medical test introduced for benefits claimants

    2007-11-20T00:00:00Z

    A new medical test that will score a person's ability to work has been announced by work and pensions secretary Peter Hain.

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    DoH leaflet addresses workforce issues

    2007-11-20T00:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has published a leaflet on workforce issues related to achieving the 18-week waiting time target.

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    WHO meets to discuss influenza preparedness

    2007-11-20T00:00:00Z

    Member states of the World Health Organisation meet in Geneva today to discuss influenza viruses and access to vaccines.

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    City workers take fewer sick days, study shows

    2007-11-20T00:00:00Z

    A survey of 800 office-based workers in the Square Mile has found that City of London workers take off significantly fewer sick days than the national average.However, the results showed that nearly one in six workers still had to use up part of their annual leave to visit their GP.

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    papworth

    2007-11-20T00:00:00Z

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    Papworth transplants given green light

    2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

    The Healthcare Commission said at 1pm today that Papworth Hospital foundation trust could resume heart transplants after the trust agreed to implement additional measures to protect patients.

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    Royal College of GPs elects chair

    2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

    The Royal College of GPs has elected a Birmingham GP as its chairman. Professor Steve Field is a GP partner, regional postgraduate dean for NHS West Midlands workforce deanery, an honorary professor at the University of Warwick and an honorary professor of medicine at the University of Birmingham.

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    Advisory board for CHKS

    2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Information analysts CHKS have appointed an advisory board. The board will be chaired by King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson.

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    Circular sets out appropriate blood use

    2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

    A circular on blood transfusions has been published. It includes information on transfusion safety and effectiveness and avoiding unnecessary use of blood components.

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    Our NHS, Our Future summit goes virtual

    2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

    Presentations from a clinical summit to be held as part of Lord Darzi's Our NHS, Our Future review on 21 and 22 November are to be available live on the virtual world site Second Life.

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    Commissioning: FESC is not enough alone, poll suggests

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    HSJ's exclusive poll of one in four PCT chief executives and commissioning directors shows high levels of uncertainty over using FESC for commissioning, writes Alexis Nolan

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    Chief medical officer should resign, say junior doctors

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Junior doctors have repeated calls for England's chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson to resign over changes to training that 'messed up thousands of doctors' lives'.

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    Figures spark fresh concern over dental contracts

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Nearly half of dentists faced having payments taken back after failing to meet targets in the first year of the new NHS dental contract, reveal statistics obtained by the British Dental Association.The association said many of the targets were unfair and called on primary care trusts to take a 'constructive, ...

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    Call for more psychiatric beds in Northern Ireland

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    More psychiatrists and mental health inpatient facilities are needed to help stem the 'rising tide of suicides' in Northern Ireland, say doctors.

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    Services to remember victims of road accidents

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    More than 40 religious services will take place across the UK on Sunday to remember people killed or injured in road accidents.