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DoH pledges support teams
The Department of Health is to create a national support team to help primary care trusts and local authorities tackle public health.
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Dignity nurse plan scrapped
Plans for hospitals to appoint a 'dignity nurse' have been dropped after the proposal was 'misinterpreted'.
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Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald on GPs and commissioning
'Strategic health authorities and GPs must represent the best interests of the citizen and patient... However, they face some pretty daunting challenges'
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Commission says sorry for PCT score mistakes
The Healthcare Commission has apologised for sending 62 primary care trusts the wrong ratings last week. The commission was alerted to the errors by PCTs, which were given their individual scores on Tuesday, ahead of the official launch of figures for all of England on Thursday.
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NHS Employers: far fewer job cuts than first claimed
The threat hanging over 20,000 NHS posts has amounted to fewer than 800 redundancies so far, NHS Employers has claimed.
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NHS chief sets out surplus expectations
The NHS is aiming for a surplus of 0.5 per cent by 2008-09, David Nicholson told the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
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South West chief execs move in
As senior appointments for the newly reconfigured PCTs continue to take shape, HSJbrings you the latest recruits in the South West
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Nicholson calls for 'headroom'
Creating 'financial headroom' this fiscal year is essential in coping with the risk of increased costs as healthcare shifts from hospitals to primary care, NHS chief executive David Nicholson told a Downing Street press conference on Tuesday.
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Child visitors face ban
A hospital trust has drawn up contingency plans to severely restrict child visitors if patients are at risk from diarrhoea and vomiting bugs.
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Food still leaves bad taste in patients' mouths
Almost half of hospital patients supplement their hospital food with offerings brought in by visitors, the biggest survey of its kind has revealed.
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Lansley: at-risk hospitals 'better off as charities'
Many community hospitals at risk of closure 'would be better off with charitable status' than remaining in the NHS, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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NICE insiders criticise Alzheimer's drug decision
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has been criticised by its own senior advisers for not listening to experts when deciding to limit the use of the only drugs available in the UK for Alzheimer's disease.
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Wanless warning: future of NHS hangs on obesity action
The government has failed to tackle obesity - and unless it does so, the future of the NHS hangs in the balance, says the man who persuaded ministers to pump record sums into the service.
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GMC: patients should rate GPs
GPs should be rated by the public in the same way as users of auction website eBay, according to the president of the General Medical Council.
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Raj persaud on gender
'The female is often enduring several sacrifices to make the relationship work and the male isn't'
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Only two top scorers in first year of healthcheck ratings
Just two organisations, both of them foundation trusts, have scored top marks in the first healthcheck ratings by the Healthcare Commission.
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Flint urges shops to weigh in on public health effort
Businesses, shops and employers must be drawn into efforts to improve public health, the government said this week.
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Website promises easier comparisons to promote public understanding
The Healthcare Commission today launched a new web service designed to allow the public to make easy national and local comparisons about the state of NHS services.
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Conservative conference: charities push for changes to GP incentive framework
Two charities are planning to launch a campaign to push for GPs' incentive payments to be based much more on their success in improving public health.
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DoH calls for new definition of urgent care centres
The NHS needs a new definition of an urgent care centre and the minimum range of services patients can expect to find there, the Department of Health has said.