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Unbranded medicine costs 'pose threat to PCG budgets'
The spiralling cost of unbranded medicines is putting severe strain on the budgets of primary care groups.
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Short Cuts: Government will respond this year on long-term care
The government will respond before Christmas to the report of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care, leader of the House of Commons Margaret Beckett said last week. Dr Chai Patel, chair of the Continuing Care Conference, an umbrella group of local authorities, charities, healthcare providers and financial institutions, said he ...
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Short Cuts: ACHCEW clashes with BMA over confidentiality
The Association of Community Health Councils for England and Wales is seeking legal advice over British Medical Association guidelines which it fears will compromise patient confidentiality. Director Donna Covey urged the BMA to 'look again' at its guidance on confidentiality and disclosure of health information, in particular the assumption that ...
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Short Cuts: Hutt gives go-ahead for Cardiff 's single trust
Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt has approved the creation of a single trust to serve Cardiff and the surrounding area. Cardiff and Vale trust will be formed from a merger of University Hospital of Wales and Llandough Hospital trust and Cardiff and District Community trust. It will ...
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Short Cuts: Elderly people 'should have bigger say' on services
Elderly people should have a bigger say in shaping local services, according to a report published by the Better Government for Older People campaign. It says older people need more opportunities and better services. By 2041, 41 per cent of the British population will be over 50, compared with a ...
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Short Cuts: People over 65 are refused treatment on the NHS
One in 20 people over 65 has been refused NHS treatment, including breast cancer screening, heart transplants and coronary care, says an Age Concern survey of age discrimination in the NHS. Director Sally Greengross called on the government to end the 'national epidemic of ageism' in the NHS and ensure ...
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Short Cuts: Denham praises trust's ethnic minority recruitment
Health minister John Denham has praised Newham Community trust's health and race task group for helping stamp out racial discrimination by encouraging more people from ethnic minorities to work in the NHS. Speaking at a conference last week, Mr Denham pledged that the NHS would fight racism 'tooth and nail'.
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Bristol spotlight moves on to care
More than 30 children who died after undergoing heart surgery in Bristol in the 1980s and early 1990s could have been saved, the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry was told last week.
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Safety drive is 'key' to rise in sectioning
The government's focus on public safety is 'key' to a sharp rise in the number of mental health patients sectioned in the past two years, say policy experts.
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Partnership under pressure as prison faces privatisation threat
The 'partnership' between the NHS and the prison service came under pressure this week when prisons and probation minister Paul Boateng warned Brixton Prison in south London to 'shape up' or be privatised .
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Anger over breast-care unit plans
Proposals for a radical shake-up of Leicester's hospitals have triggered a backlash over a £1m breast-care unit.
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Defence medicine hit by crisis of confidence
Constant change and lower rates of pay than the NHS have destabilised defence medical services and caused serious problems for trusts, according to an influential committee of MPs.
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Days like this
Challenge to reforms. . . Third Executive board member quits. . .Nurse regrading 'failure'. . . Private foothold urged. . . 'Slap-up meal' row. . .
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With friends like these. . .
Managers, GPs and politicians are the best of friends. Even rival national PCG organisations love each other really. Yet, somehow, the NAPC's conference wasn't entirely tension-free, writes Kaye McIntosh
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Nowhere plans for nobody?
Consultation on PCGs' bids for trust status ends this month. But will PCTs generate the public interest their predecessors have lacked? Mark Gould reports
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Carry on at your convenor
MSPs launched a candid and very public attack on Scottish health minister Susan Deacon when the tapes kept rolling during what they believed to be a private session. Colin Wright reports
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Slow, slow, quick quick slow
Plans to speed up IT procurement may be hampered by the diversity of trusts that are expected to work together, writes Michael Cross
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Down on the farm
An outreach service for a rural population which finds conventional health services inaccessible has made pleasing progress, reports Thelma Agnew