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Latest referral times data released
The latest referral to treatment times for patients whose 18-week clock stopped in July have been released.
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Doctors' contract survey launched
The British Medical Association has launched a survey to seek the opinions of staff grade and associate specialist doctors on new contract proposals.
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Paper addresses quality adjusted healthcare output
A Department of Health paper explores different methods of incorporating quality adjustments when measuring NHS output.
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Guide on measuring hospital output
A review of data sources and methodology for calculating hospital output in the NHS has been published by the Department of Health.
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Leicester interim chief
An interim chief executive is to be paid£33,000 a month to run a hospital trust – thought to be one of the highest salaries the NHS has ever offered.Consultant Derek Smith, brought in at University Hospital of Leicester trust following the resignation of Peter Reading last month, is to be ...
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Report demands end to top-down direction and return of professional autonomy
Clinicians want the government to let them get on with 'doing the right thing for the patient'.
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Tories stake a claim to be the patient-centred party
The Conservatives have fired their salvo in the battle to prove they are the party that can deliver a patient-centred NHS.
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Fundamental change key to NHS vision, says Darzi
Lord Darzi will today tell the NHS that it has to make fundamental changes to the way it operates.
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New formula to boost funds for poor areas
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has promised that no NHS board will see a cut in its budget if a proposed new funding formula is adopted.
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Call to meet equality obligations to men
The Men's Health Forum has challenged the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights to take immediate action to ensure the NHS meets its obligations to men.
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Confederation call to tackle health inequalities
Moves to tackle health inequalities must start with the most excluded, the NHS Confederation has urged.
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Academic health science centre launched
Imperial College Healthcare trust, the UK's first academic health science centre, was launched on Monday.
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Money for nothing in the ISTC labour crisis
They were meant to cut waiting times for routine operations, but independent sector treatment centres continue to go under-used while primary care trusts foot the bill. Alison Moore reports
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BMA says more funds are key to boosting GP access
The chairman of the British Medical Association has told a government minister that more money and staff will be needed to improve GP access.
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Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.
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Appeal against Alzheimer's drug decision
Pharmaceutical companies are appealing a High Court judgement that upheld the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's decision to restrict the use of anti-dementia medicines for NHS patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
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NHS Choices: relaunching on a website near you soon
The much-criticised NHS Choices website will relaunch this month and attempt to position itself as part of the personalised NHS.
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Four more granted foundation trust status
Four more trusts have been granted foundation trust status by Monitor, the independent regulator.
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NICE chief asks for divorce from DoH
The chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said that it would function better if it were set free from the Department of Health.
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Councillors to join PCT boards
Primary care trusts might be told to have local authority councillors on their boards, health minister Ben Bradshaw told delegates.