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Berkshire West Atos deal
Berkshire West is the latest primary care trust to agree a contract with a private provider for GP services.Atos Healthcare, a division of Atos Origin, is to supply all services at a new health centre in Shinfield.And in line with Prime Minster Gordon Brown's pledge to make access a priority, ...
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GPs can't tackle obesity alone
GPs have a role to play in tackling obesity but are by no means the only players in trying to halt the ‘epidemic’, senior medical officers agreed at the Royal College of General Practioners' annual conference.Dr Bill Kirkup said cross-government action was required and that there was no ‘medical quick ...
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wales violence
The Welsh Assembly has set up a task force to tackle violence and aggression against NHS staff.Its remit is to improve information sharing, incident reporting and the way the service works with the police and the Crown Prosecution Service.The taskforce, to include union representatives, will also look at what guidance ...
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Guide on measuring hospital output
A review of data sources and methodology for calculating hospital output in the NHS has been published by the Department of Health.
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Give smokers nicotine products, says RCP
The UK is failing to help heavily addicted smokers give up the habit, the Royal College of Physicians has said.Launching the report Harm Reduction in Nicotine Addiction: helping people who can't quit, Professor John Britton, chair of the RCP's tobacco advisory group, said nicotine products could help smokers kick the ...
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Latest referral times data released
The latest referral to treatment times for patients whose 18-week clock stopped in July have been released.
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Doctors' contract survey launched
The British Medical Association has launched a survey to seek the opinions of staff grade and associate specialist doctors on new contract proposals.
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Leicester interim chief
An interim chief executive is to be paid£33,000 a month to run a hospital trust – thought to be one of the highest salaries the NHS has ever offered.Consultant Derek Smith, brought in at University Hospital of Leicester trust following the resignation of Peter Reading last month, is to be ...
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Paper addresses quality adjusted healthcare output
A Department of Health paper explores different methods of incorporating quality adjustments when measuring NHS output.
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Going off Ofcare
Ministers are not keen on the proposed name for the new health and social care regulator, Ofcare.
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Four more granted foundation trust status
Four more trusts have been granted foundation trust status by Monitor, the independent regulator.
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Disability watchdog names and shames SHAs
The NHS is failing to tackle disability discrimination, with strategic health authorities among the worst culprits, according to a watchdog.
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Maternity death rates worsening for poorer mums
Maternity mortality rates have increased, the maternity services czar has revealed.
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Money for nothing in the ISTC labour crisis
They were meant to cut waiting times for routine operations, but independent sector treatment centres continue to go under-used while primary care trusts foot the bill. Alison Moore reports
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ISTC contract shortcomings are exposed
An HSJ investigation has found that the vast majority of independent sector treatment centres did not deliver the work contracted for in 2006-07.
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Teenage pregnancy: confidentiality guide hailed as step forward
Moves to strengthen confidentiality for young people have been hailed as a step forward in efforts to bring down teenage pregnancy rates.
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Incentivise GPs to collect vital ethnic data, urge PCT leaders
Middle managers have hit out at inadequate incentives to collect information on ethnicity that could help tackle health inequalities.
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Tories stake a claim to be the patient-centred party
The Conservatives have fired their salvo in the battle to prove they are the party that can deliver a patient-centred NHS.
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NHS Choices: relaunching on a website near you soon
The much-criticised NHS Choices website will relaunch this month and attempt to position itself as part of the personalised NHS.
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Fundamental change key to NHS vision, says Darzi
Lord Darzi will today tell the NHS that it has to make fundamental changes to the way it operates.