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Malnutrition costs UK £13bn a year, report claims
Three million people are living at risk of malnutrition in the UK and the condition is costing around £13bn a year, a report has claimed.
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NHS top-up policy needs more scrutiny - RCN
The Royal College of Nursing is calling on strategic health authorities to step up scrutiny of top-up payments to ensure the new government policy 'does not result in a two tier NHS'.
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NHS Scotland funding announced
NHS Scotland boards will share £8.6bn of funding next financial year. The sum includes £385m earmarked for capital investment, which the Scottish government said would help boost the struggling economy.
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Maternity closures increasing, say Conservatives
Nearly 50 per cent of hospital trusts had to close to maternity admissions at least once in 2008.The Conservatives, who collated the figures from freedom of information requests, said they demonstrated Labour's 'terrible record on maternity'.
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Stroke awareness campaign to save lives and money
A three year campaign to promote public awareness of stroke symptoms was launched by the Department of Health today.
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NHS PROMs results ready by November
Hospitals will be publicly rated by patients' reports of their care before the end of the year.
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Measles cases rise to record high
Last year saw the highest number of measles cases in England and Wales since records began, the Health Protection Agency has revealed.
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Conservatives highlight NHS litigation cost increase
The government has admitted that NHS negligence premiums will nearly double to £713m in the next financial year.
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NHS managers call for clinical training overhaul
Managers and clinicians are calling for clinical training programmes to give doctors a better understanding of finance and resource management in the NHS.
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West Middlesex trust names Tara Donnelly's replacement
West Middlesex University Hospital trust has appointed an interim chief executive following the resignation of Tara Donnelly.Dame Jacqueline Docherty will join the trust on 23 February from King's College Hospital, where she was deputy chief executive and director of operations.
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Mixed ward target worries
Huge uncertainty exists over whether trusts will be able to comply with health secretary Alan Johnson's new diktat on mixed sex accommodation.
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Health watchdog handover is on 'red risk'
Crucial staffing and financial decisions regarding the handover from the Healthcare Commission to the Care Quality Commission are still unresolved just two months before the new body takes over.
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Rose Gibb's 'irrational' pay-off went unchecked
NHS South East Coast and the Department of Health were aware a pay-off was under discussion with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust chief executive Rose Gibb - but they failed to intervene to stop it from being signed, a court heard last week.
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Recession puts foundation trust plans at risk
The recession is being cited as a cause for further delays in trusts gaining foundation status.
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NHS offers private providers shelter in rough economic seas
Until recently private providers could afford to be choosy about what NHS work they took on. Now, as the economy shrinks, the health service will become a vital source of income. Alison Moore reports
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Rose Gibb: 'I was hounded, victimised, demonised'
Rose Gibb accused health secretary Alan Johnson of 'hounding' her after the Healthcare Commission published its critical report.
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Council wins grant to investigate inequalities
A council has won a national grant to undertake a five-month inquiry into inequalities in primary care funding, following an HSJ exposé last year.
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King College foundation trust chief welcomes targets
Bureaucracy and targets are no greater in the NHS than in the private sector, King's College foundation trust's new chief executive Tim Smart has insisted.
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Dementia strategy will pose workforce challenges
Managers have welcomed long awaited government plans to transform dementia services but want more details on how they will be staffed and assessed.
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Emma Dent on counting calories
Using the recent anniversary of my birth as an excuse, Mr D and I seized the chance to go for a nice meal surrounded by grown-ups, before the only restaurants we get to patronise are those full of buggies and helpings of organic carrot.