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More choice on food for Scottish patients
Scottish hospitals are offering patients more choice of food but are still not doing enough to make sure their nutritional needs are met, a watchdog said last week.
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Patients' memory of offer of choice
It has been nearly a year since choice at the point of referral to hospital by GP was to be formally offered to all patients. Are the poor now getting the choices that have always been available to the rich (to paraphrase former health secretary John Reid)? And through their ...
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Sophia Christie on the power of targets
'The concern is shifting from absolute targets to the rather more difficult to track agenda of respect and values'
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Hunt claims manager power would have hobbled IT plan
The national IT programme would be facing even bigger delays if local managers had been given more control, health minister Lord Hunt has claimed.
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DoH rejects MTAS claims
NHS Employers and the Department of Health have dismissed campaigners' claims that few junior doctors' training posts have been filled.
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MPs launch contract cleaning probe
A cross-party parliamentary group is launching an inquiry into healthcare-acquired infections.
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Sex clinic under pressure as HIV rates increase
A senior strategic health authority manager has warned that high rates of HIV infection combined with poor data collection and a lack of funds for care are squeezing sexual health services in Manchester.
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Clinical engagement needs more teeth, says Farrar
The NHS should explore 'radical models of clinical engagement' to give clinicians 'more teeth' and to improve scrutiny of potential conflicts of interests, the new chief executive of North East strategic health authority has said.
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Surgical spirit soars in defence of the clinician
Royal College of Surgeons president Bernie Ribeiro is on a mission to stand up for education and to set up a national audit of clinical outcomes to convince commissioners of ISTCS' shortcomings
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Clinicians should be groomed for top jobs, says Nicholson
The chief executive of the NHS has said he wants to see a clinician on the shortlist of applicants for every top trust job.
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SNP looks to reverse emergency closures
Controversial decisions to reconfigure hospitals services in some areas of Scotland will be revisited now the Scottish National Party has taken power.
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Coding row 'largely resolved'
Disputes concerning over-performance at acute level have been largely resolved, University College London Hospitals foundation trust has said.
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Service 'collapse' warning
The clinical director of a sexual health service has warned that it is on the brink of collapse because of spending cuts.
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Too few trusts collect good safety data, says Dr Foster
Better patient safety data needs to be collected as a matter of urgency because 'the NHS currently lacks measures of patient safety that allow national and local comparisons', Dr Foster Intelligence has warned.
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Health Commission Wales under threat
A major question-mark has been placed over the future of Health Commission Wales - the agency dealing with highly specialised services - after it was slammed by the Welsh Assembly's audit committee.
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Commission orders trusts to provide proof of non-discrimination policies
A hospital trust and a primary care trust have been served with legal notices giving them 28 days to prove they do not discriminate against disabled patients or staff.
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Healthcare Commission takes a hard line on hospital infection
The Healthcare Commission is to clamp down on superbugs after one in four hospitals admitted they were failing to meet national standards.
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Tender rules loosened for commissioners
Practice-based commissioners will not have go out to open tender 'in many cases' when switching where they send patients, the government's guidance on commissioning was expected to rule today.
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Competing commissioners ruled out
The government has no plans to introduce competition between NHS commissioners, the prime minister's health adviser told the NHS Alliance conference.