All News articles – Page 1149
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A Darzi future relies on data quality
Lord Darzi's report rightly focuses on patient care and sets out a broad and demanding agenda to achieve its vision of high quality of care for all.
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Healthcare Commission survey highlights maternity failings
The Healthcare Commission is demanding improvements in maternity care after a huge review showed some women are put at risk by shortages of staff, beds and bathrooms.
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Clinical leaders network ready to roll
A scheme to develop senior clinicians as leaders is to be extended across England after a successful trial.
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Move sex health provision to community says charity
The Terrence Higgins Trust has called on primary care trusts to apply Lord Darzi's access reforms to sexual health services to improve an unacceptably outmoded system.
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Gay clergy find a welcome in NHS chaplaincy
The NHS is more welcoming to gay clergy than the Church of England, new research on hospital chaplains suggests.
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CBI warning on stop-start procurement projects
Primary care trusts that drag out procurements are hiking up the cost of schemes to taxpayers, the Confederation of British Industry has warned.
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PCTs will have veto on Darzi integrated care pilots
Strategic health authorities and primary care trusts will be expected to take a lead role in setting up and supporting integrated care pilots.
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Cancer firm expects NHS to fall short
A private company has invested around £30m in three new private cancer centres, underlining its belief that the NHS will fail to meet the rising demand for cancer treatments.
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Darzi calls for skills to tackle challenge of lifestyle diseases
Primary and community care organisations must strengthen their skills and infrastructure to tackle 'lifestyle diseases' such as obesity, Lord Darzi told an HSJ conference this week.
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Euro providers could claim place on choose and book
European health providers could launch claims to be included in GP choose and book systems to give them the same access to the NHS market as those in the UK.
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Economist calls for NHS Bank to hold foundation surpluses
Foundation trusts should be able to store their £2.3bn surpluses in an 'NHS bank' for use by rest of the health service, MPs have been told.
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Health and Social Care Act accuracy
Although heartening to see public engagement featuring as a key part of the supplement on world class commissioning, it was disappointing to see an incorrect representation of the legal framework central to the article.
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GPs open up to extended access target
Almost a quarter of primary care trust areas have now hit the Department of Health's target to extend GP opening hours, latest figures reveal.
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Hospital at night model adopted by 80 per cent of trusts
Almost 80 per cent of NHS trusts across England, Wales and Scotland are now using the Hospital at Night method of teamworking, a survey by NHS National Workforce Projects shows.Four NHS trusts piloted the techniques in 2003, but now Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and countries in the EU have ...
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Care UK in £14.1m acquisition plan
Health and social care provider Care UK has conditionally agreed to acquire the whole of the Partnership Health Group in a £14.1m deal.
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NHS still failing multiple sclerosis patients, study claims
Only a third of multiple sclerosis patients access neurological rehabilitation services, research by the Royal College of Physicians and the MS Trust has revealed.
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Waiting times fall for key diagnostic tests
Latest figures reveal that the number of patients in England waiting more than six weeks for one of the Department of Health's 15 key diagnostic tests dropped by 2.2 per cent between April and May.
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Cancer director seeks NHS views on top ups
National clinical director for cancer Professor Mike Richards has written to NHS chief executives and senior clinicians asking for their views on policy regarding patients wanting to supplement their NHS care with privately funded drugs.
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Independent Reconfiguration Panel appoints chief
Richard Jeavons has been appointed as chief executive of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.
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New kite mark for public sector canteens
A new kite mark is to be developed for public sector canteens that provide nutritious food and encourage healthier eating.