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NewsTower 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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NewsPCT 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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NewsLords 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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NewsNHS 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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NewsLIFT-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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NewsHealthcare watchdogs could suspend NHS inspections during crisis
The Care Quality Commission plans to suspend a “whole suite of activities” such as hygiene inspections if the flu pandemic worsens.
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NewsPCT 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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NewsCommunity treatment order fears confirmed
Fears that supervised community treatment orders would be disproportionately imposed on patients from ethnic minorities have proven to be founded.
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NewsPrescriptions 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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NewsHealth 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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NewsPharmacists argue for national contract to pay for flu pandemic work
Pharmacists have warned the lack of a standard contract to pay them for taking on extra work during the flu pandemic could hinder the national response to the outbreak. Payments for community pharmacists are being determined through 86 separate local negotiations.
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NewsNICE 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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NewsHealth 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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NewsMinisters 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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NewsMonitor 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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NewsScreening 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.
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NewsEthnicity '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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NewsOlder women suffer from breast cancer inequality
Access to breast cancer treatment discriminates against older women, a report has claimed.
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NewsDH 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.