All News articles – Page 1322
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Lord Warner to limit GP pensions
The government has moved to limit increases in GP pensions, claiming patient services could be at risk if it did not act.
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Trust withdraws GP letter
A trust has been ordered to retract a letter suggesting patients pay for surgery if they do not want to wait four-and-a-half months for it.
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Performance: patients' reviews to go online
Patients will be given the chance to rate the service they have received from GPs and hospitals on a website set up by Department of Health.
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NAO quizzed on 'glowing' IT report
The National Audit Office has been told to continue to monitor the progress of the national programme for IT in the NHS after producing a report which surprised MPs with its positive conclusions.
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Getting involved improves your health
New research shows that social participation is just as important for improving the health of older people as medical intervention.
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Petitioners could get right to a response
Primary care trusts will be forced to react to petitions from service users and the public if controversial proposals from the Department of Health get the go ahead.
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Work together to lessen the gap
Local government can play a key role in improving the quality of people's lives. Achieving this requires stronger partnerships at local level and aligning incentives for health inequalities
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Foundation will take on troubled Good Hope
Heart of England foundation trust has been given the go-ahead to take over Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham.
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Government and unions join policy forum
The government, unions and NHS Employers have committed to a new forum for partnership working.
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Stockton-on-Tees - Strength in firm foundations
'In partnership with the community and voluntary sector, we have sought to involve local people in identifying both needs and solutions'
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Penalty fines total millions on IT
Trusts are being fined millions of pounds for failing to lend staff to computer contractors running the troubled national IT programme.
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Inside track: finance - what's on managers' minds this week
'What we don't need is more negative images perpetuated by those at the centre'
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No fence for LINks
Funding for local involvement networks will not be ringfenced, the government has announced. In its response to consultation to its July proposal to establish the networks, the Department of Health said that funding to local authorities would be 'allocated as a targeted but not ringfenced grant'.
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GP-led firm is favourite to run six London practices for PCT
A London primary care trust has selected a GP-led company as preferred bidder to run six practices.
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MPs slam health ministers' financial failures
Ministers' failure to get a grip on NHS finances last year led to a £570m net deficit in England, according to MPs.
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Reprieved Macclesfield faces new review
A hospital which won a last minute reprieve for its maternity services is now to face a new challenge.
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Scottish patients face forced quarantine
Members of the public could be quarantined by force in their own homes if they have contracted or been exposed to a serious infectious disease under new legislation being considered by the Scottish Executive.
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Patient rights expected to be upheld in new report
The Commons health select committee is expected to recommend that visiting rights of patients' groups should be restructured, when it publishes its report on patient and public involvement tomorrow.
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Wanless to examine future of mental health
The King's Fund has launched a Wanless review of mental health services in a bid to project the cost of providing a service over 20 years.
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Every GP practice to get kitemark rating
Every GP surgery is to be rated from next year under a kitemark scheme backed by the Department of Health.