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GP to chair palliative care group
Mayur Lakhani has been appointed as the next chair of the National Council for Palliative Care.
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Scotland passes public health bill
Scottish Parliament has passed a new public health bill that will strengthen health board and local authority powers to act when individuals, premises or any item pose a major risk to public health.
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London PCTs back Darzi vision
London's 31 primary care trusts have endorsed health minister Lord Darzi's Healthcare for London proposals and agreed to move ahead with a network of polyclinics and specialist hospitals.The move follows a six-month consultation on the plans. NHS London stressed it is a 'framework and not about specific services'. However, the ...
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Handle complaints better, ombudsman tells NHS
Parliamentary and health service ombudsman Ann Abraham today urged the NHS to improve how it handles complaints.
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Talking therapy spearheads named
The Department of Health has named 32 primary care trusts that will roll out talking therapies across the country.
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Unite members reject pay deal and vote for strike ballot
Unite’s health service members have overwhelmingly rejected the government’s 7.99 per cent three year pay deal.Nearly 95 per cent of 20,000 members who voted were against accepting the deal, with three quarters of them wanting a strike ballot.Unite represents health visitors, hospital pharmacists, healthcare chaplains and other healthcare and support ...
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New healthcare commissioners
Three new healthcare commissioners today join the Healthcare Commission.
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NHS reforms need more time to deliver, report claims
NHS system reforms have improved management of the health service but need more time to deliver significant benefits for patients.A report published today by the Audit Commission and the Healthcare Commission says reforms such as payment by results and foundation trusts are beginning to work. But patient-focused changes such as ...
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Hospital cleanliness is patients' first priority
Hospital cleanliness and low infection rates are the most important factors for patients choosing an elective care provider, new government statistics show.
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Unite to ballot on strike
Members of Unite, the third largest NHS union, have rejected the government's 7.99 per cent three-year pay deal and voted for a ballot on industrial action.
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Over a million sign BMA polyclinic petition
More than 1.1 million people have signed a British Medical Association petition calling on the government to halt the development of polyclinics.
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Senior doctors back plans for 360-degree patient appraisals
Senior doctors' leaders are backing plans to allow patients to rate consultants' personalities as part of '360-degree appraisals'.
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DH warns Treasury of chaos after accountancy rule changes
Department of Health officials warned the Treasury that accountancy rule changes affecting the private finance initiative would ‘throw the NHS system into chaos’.
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Acquisitions need to be more attractive says takeover chief
The chief executive of England's only foundation trust to take over a failing hospital has urged the government to make acquisitions more attractive.In an exclusive article for HSJ, Heart of England foundation trust chief executive Mark Goldman warns ministers not to rely on 'heroism'. His comments follow plans to replace ...
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Adult care threat
Congratulations on your leader responding to Sally Gainsbury's report on councils' potential loss of £7bn social care funds to the Department for Work and Pensions.
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Alan Johnson steps up pace of inequalities reform
Health secretary Alan Johnson has outlined plans to ramp up the pace of reform in the face of a struggle to meet health inequalities targets.
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Unison and RCN pay vote allays strikes threat
Fears of widespread strikes among NHS staff were allayed after the two biggest health service unions voted to accept a three-year pay deal.
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Nick Clegg pledges GP rewards in poorer areas
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said he wants to 'slant the playing field in favour of GPs working in the most deprived areas'.
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Assessment for venous thromboembolism
Regarding the HSJ investigation into levels of risk assessment for venous thromboembolism being undertaken for hospital inpatients, the all-party parliamentary thrombosis group was disheartened to hear that more than half of hospital trusts are failing to follow best practice guidelines that all patients receive this risk assessment on admission.
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Better on pain management
In HSJ's Chronic Pain Management supplement, Shropshire GP Louise Warburton said the wait to see a pain management team in her area was six months.