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Welsh plan to promote healthcare volunteering
Plans to encourage more volunteers in healthcare have been launched by the Welsh Assembly.
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Darzi review due at 3.30pm
The next stage review of the NHS is due to be announced by health minister Lord Darzi and health secretary Alan Johnson at 3.30 this afternoon. See www.hsj.co.uk for breaking news on the review from 3.30.
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Lord Darzi to speak at HSJ conference
Lord Darzi will be the keynote speaker at HSJ's Implementing Our NHS, Our Future conference on 8 July. Go to www.hsj.co.uk/conferences to find out more and book your place.HSJ and hsj.co.uk will continue to bring you in-depth news on the key themes of Lord Darzi's review of the health service. ...
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Age discrimination guidance issued
Two literature reviews and two research studies on the costs and benefits of eliminating age discrimination in the provision of health and social care are now available.
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Monitor approves 100th foundation trust
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has announced the authorisation of the 100th foundation trust.
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Median waiting time now four weeks
More than nine in 10 people needing inpatient treatment in England are now treated in less than 13 weeks - with the median wait 4.3 weeks.
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Nine out of 10 patients treated within 18 weeks
The NHS is treating nine out of 10 patients within the 18-week referral to treatment deadline.
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Barts and London apologises to patients for delays
Barts and the London trust has apologised to 573 patients who had to wait an average of 34 weeks for their operations.An investigation by the trust found that one of its seven bookings teams was offering patients operations at short notice, against NHS rules that say 21 days' notice is ...
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New tool to assess patient involvement
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.
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Royal College sets out alternative to polyclinics
The Royal College of GPs has published its alternative model to polyclinics - primary care federations, in which groups of GP practices would work in partnership primarily in existing buildings to deliver better patient care.
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Councils should help with PCT management, says think tank
Local authorities should be given a more significant role in health and share more of their expertise with primary care trusts, according to think tank the New Local Government Network.
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Latest data on consultant and nurse pay
The NHS Information Centre has published estimates of annual basic pay and total earnings for NHS staff based on payments between January and March 2008.
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Heart surgery survival rates published
The Healthcare Commission has published updated heart surgery survival rates for 37 heart units in the UK.The figures show no unit has 'worse than expected' survival rates, 32 have 'as expected' rates and five 'better than expected'.
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Nursing needs inspirational vision
Ken Jarrold identifies the central importance of nursing to healthcare, calling it the 'essence of care'.
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Sherford in focus
Your feature 'Shock of the new' states that a single health and well-being centre will house eight GP surgeries. In fact the centre will house eight GPs.
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Lansley slates DH regionalisation policy
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has criticised the Department of Health's attempt to shift performance management down to strategic health authorities.
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Nicholson denies 'swipe' at foundation regulator Monitor
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has played down comments that appeared to criticise the foundation trusts' regulator Monitor.
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National dementia plan to take on lack of leadership
The Department of Health is to address a 'lack of leadership' in the care of hospital patients with dementia in a consultation on England's first national strategy for the condition.
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Top-up debate is a matter of principle
Your editorial on updating the NHS's top-up rules raises some interesting issues, particularly about the income group most affected - those with a bit of money they are prepared to spend to try to get a better outcome - and the possibility that the drugs may not be as good ...
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Trust staff go unpunished for patient data snooping
Trusts are failing to punish staff caught snooping on patients' records, NHS Employers has revealed.