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Unite opens NHS pay ballot
Union Unite today began balloting NHS members on the current three-year pay deal. The ballot will ask 100,000 members if they are prepared to take industrial action, including strike action, in protest at the pay deal.
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Maternity services growth fails to keep up with births
Maternity services faced growing pressure on capacity and staff last year despite government commitments to improve safety and choice.Newly released reports from regional midwifery officers show midwife numbers in many areas failed to keep up with the rising birth rate in 2007-08.
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Luton and Dunstable investigates deadly E coli outbreak
Luton and Dunstable Hospital foundation trust is investigating the source of a drug-resistant E coli outbreak that has been linked to the deaths of two babies on its neonatal intensive care unit.
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Economic downturn 'may hit medical research'
Medical research funding is expected to suffer because of the economic downturn, experts have warned.
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Scotland unveils cancer care plan
The Scottish government has published an action plan for improving cancer care and support.
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Bill Moyes warns against clawing back foundation trust surpluses
The head of Monitor has warned it would be 'completely bizarre' for the Department of Health to claw back foundation trust surpluses.Executive chairman Bill Moyes' comments came after HSJ revealed the Treasury was considering holding on to all or part of the surplus to ease the financial crisis.
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Everyday technology could improve patient care - King's Fund
The NHS is failing to use everyday technology such as emails to improve patient care and save money, according to two reports published today by the King's Fund.The think tank argues that well-established technologies and more advanced systems could allow patients to book GP appointments via the internet, receive routine ...
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Defence ministry doctors accept pay deal
The British Medical Association has formally accepted a new pay deal for GPs working for the Ministry of Defence.
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Bed occupancy linked to hospital infections - Conservatives
Conservative Party research has linked hospital ward overcrowding with infections such as MRSA and C difficile.
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Health Professions Council to increase fees
The Health Professions Council is increasing its fees despite overwhelming opposition.
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Care Quality Commission asks for views on enforcement powers
The Care Quality Commission has launched a 12-week consultation on how it will use its new enforcement powers.
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C difficile rates down 38 per cent, Health Protection Agency figures show
C difficile rates plummeted 38 per cent among over-65s during April-June 2008 compared with the same quarter last year.Health Protection Agency figures show that the number of cases in April-June 2008 was 8,683, also representing a drop of 18 per cent on the previous quarter.
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Asbestos awareness campaign begins in Scotland
The Health and Safety Executive in Scotland has launched a campaign to raise awareness of asbestos-related diseases - which kill 20 tradespeople a week in Britain.
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Over 90 per cent of patients treated within 18 weeks, new figures show
Referral to treatment times for August show that 90.3 per cent of admitted patients and 95.3 per cent of non-admitted patients completed their journey within the 18-week target.
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Child poverty costs £25bn a year - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Child poverty costs £25bn a year in losses to the Exchequer and reduced gross domestic product, a charity that examines social problems has claimed.
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PCTs mull pan-London immunisation programme
Primary care trust chief executives are considering plans for a pan-London immunisation programme.
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Why should NHS managers reapply for their posts?
I was close to apoplexy when I heard about Liberal Democrat deputy leader Vince Cable's suggestion that directors reapply for their own posts and take a pay and conditions cut in the process.
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Reported maternity incidents
It would be a grave error to assume that an increase in reported maternity incident numbers - widely covered in the media last week - is a result of increasing error rates in maternity services.
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Why a health service redesign hit the rocks
With controversial reconfiguration plans in Sussex appearing shelf-bound, Alison Moore looks at the lessons for other trusts and asks whether changes on that scale are just too unwieldy to succeed
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Hold-up: Treasury eyes NHS surplus
The Treasury is in talks with the Department of Health over the NHS's £1.7bn surplus and when the service will be able to spend it.