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DoH catalogues local spending
Details of where the £8bn being spent in the NHS this year will go have been outlined in a new report published today.Local Spending for Local Needs will catalogue schemes rolling out across the country and coincides with local plans published by strategic health authorities.Read the report here
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Survival rates up, says Cancer Research
New statistics from Cancer Research UK show that 10-year survival for all types of cancer has reached 46.2 per cent.One of the charity's new goals is to increase the overall five-year survival rate to more than two-thirds by 2020.Click here for more information about the statistics:
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New phase of reform for mental health outlined
The national clinical director for mental health Professor Louis Appleby has set out the importance of continuing to improve mental health services with a new phase of reforms.Professor Appleby has called for barriers that prevent people from rebuilding their lives following mental healthcare to be broken down, and sets out ...
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DoH launches occupational health projects
The Department of Health has announced that businesses in Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire, London and Hampshire are to benefit from demonstration projects designed to improve occupational health. The projects will share £10m to help boost the mental, physical and social well-being of local staff.Health minister Rosie Winterton said: 'The funding of ...
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Working with Oakleigh Consulting
The Information Centre for health and social care's commercial management team is working with Oakleigh Consulting.to make information on the NHS more accessible.
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Cancer czar calls for more reform
The NHS must continue to change if it is to deliver better cancer care to patients according to the national cancer director Professor Mike Richards.Getting it right for people with cancer: the clinical case for change, published by Professor Richards today, says that to meet future demand the NHS must ...
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Breastfeeding on the rise
More mothers than ever before are choosing to breastfeed their newborn babies, according to a report published today by the Information Centre for health and social care.The 2005 infant feeding survey shows 76 per cent of mothers in the UK now start out breastfeeding - up 7 per cent since ...
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Ad campaign launched to prepare for smoking ban
A smoky atmosphere is the single biggest reason for avoiding a pub or bar, according to a survey published by the Department of Health.The government has also launched a national advertising campaign to remind the public what the legislation will mean when the smoking ban comes into force on 1 ...
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Imperial leads merger on hunt for joined-up research
The first academic health science centre in the country is aiming for the 'holy grail' of intimately connecting research with frontline healthcare, as Victoria Vaughan explains
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In pursuit of happiness
The NHS goes to great lengths to implement complex and ever-changing outcome measures, but do they pay enough heed to how well patients feel, asks Mark Gould
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Survey reveals public satisfaction with GPs
A patient survey has found 21 categories in which GPs' patients feel services have improved over the last three years.Almost half rated their satisfaction levels as excellent and over 30 per cent as very good. Areas that showed most improvement were opening hours and appointment times.Read the survey here
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Happiness is... getting to grips with the intangible
As the NHS has become sophisticated about the need to measure outcomes, it inevitably raises questions about what is actually measured, and therefore what matters. By necessity, the focus in the early years of this government has been on the utterly tangible - mortality rates, waiting lists and so on.
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One in five trusts still have mixed-sex wards
Almost one in five trusts has failed to eliminate mixed-sex wards from their accommodation, a Department of Health report has found.A total of 28 trusts are receiving extra DoH support to provide single-sex accommodation. Best practice guidance on privacy and dignity will be released later in the year.Read the report ...
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DoH rejig indicates future direction of policy
After many tremors below the surface, the detail of the restructuring of the Department of Health has emerged this week. NHS chief executive David Nicholson has created a new NHS leadership team, with new posts, and some clear water from the rest of the department (read news item on Nicholson's ...
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NHS chief executive Nicholson creates new team to lead 'third stage of reform'
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has promised that the creation of a new senior team within the Department of Health will deliver a 'different kind of leadership to support local NHS staff'.
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Mental health charity urges government to heed own research
Mental health charity Rethink has urged the government to heed findings from its own research into community treatment orders on the day MPs debate mental health legislation.The charity said the research showed there was no evidence the orders actually work.
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Reduced government funding leads to significant drop in smoking cessation efforts, FOI figures show
A 41 per cent cut in Department of Health funding for smoking cessation advertising last year was accompanied by a marked drop in the numbers of quitters, figures obtained by HSJ can reveal.
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BMA sets out plan to close purchaser-provider divide
The British Medical Association has proposed the creation of an organisation to bridge the gap between purchaser and provider and move towards single-system working.
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Audit finds unacceptable waits for stroke scans
Less than 10 per cent of stroke patients are receiving a brain scan within three hours of having a stroke, and only 42 per cent are having brain imaging to confirm diagnosis within 24 hours of symptoms, an audit has found.The 2006 National Sentinel Stroke Audit also found that only ...