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Siemens Healthcare Services is conducting a 'full strategy review' of all its products, including the flagship Open-PAS patient administration system. A spokesperson said all aspects of the company's business operations were being examined by the new managing director, Robin Williams, who arrived in a shake-up last month. Siemens will announce ...
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Sir Alan Langlands
The NHS chief executive gains a knighthood in the NHS's 50th anniversary year. Sir Alan has been chief executive since 1994, when he succeeded Sir Duncan Nichol, having served as his deputy. Sir Alan is a former general manager of North West Thames regional health authority.
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Analyst warns that hospital merger savings are an illusion
Government hopes of saving pounds50,000 with every hospital merger are largely illusory, a leading health policy analyst warned last week.
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Picture this
Picture this: Pat Long was one of 40 students showing their art work at an exhibition in Leeds for participants in a course for people with mental illness. The exhibition, part-funded by Leeds Community and Mental Health Services trust, included drawings, paintings, collages and sculptures. Course co-ordinator Phil Hopkins said: ...
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Pressure increases to finance MS drugs
Health authorities could be under pressure to fund Betaferon treatment for thousands more patients - at a cost of millions of pounds - by the end of the year.
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Bad consultants face loss of merit awards
Hospital consultants who fail to meet new quality measures could have their merit awards withdrawn by the Commission for Health Improvement.
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Lighthouse nears rocks as consultation rethinks
Campaigners hoping to save the London Lighthouse HIV/AIDS centre as a health service facility have agreed to co-operate in a new consultation exercise which excludes it as a future provider of residential services.
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Pastures new
Toby Harris's controversial departure from the CHC movement comes at a time of deep uncertainty over its future, writes Patrick Butler
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Something of the fight?
With her appointment as shadow health secretary Ann Widdecombe's rehabilitation is complete.
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Ready for take-off
Comprehensive studies of primary care pilot schemes could provide ministers with justification for their reforms, writes Barbara Millar
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All aboard?
Senior finance managers are increasingly worried about how primary care groups will work. Lyn Whitfield reports on an exclusive HSJ/HFMA survey
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What they say about primary care groups
Mark Millar, finance director, Suffolk health authority
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Tender is the plight
Dudley health authority's move to sell community nursing to the highest bidder ended in resignations and retreat. Pat Healy reports
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Skye's the limit
Airline-style bookings, where patients know the date of their hospital appointments when they leave their GP, is part of a drive to improve electronic communications in the NHS in Scotland. Barbara Millar reports
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How one trust aims to extend its Wheech
Western General Hospital trust in Edinburgh is `'reinventing itself', creating 'one-stop shop' clinics and establishing a patients' council to oversee its progress.