News – Page 1510
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NewsEx-RCGP chair to head new health inclusion board
Former chair of the Royal College of GPs Steve Field is to head a new “health inclusion board” with goals outlined in the public health white paper.
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NewsFew surprises in public health white paper
Andrew Lansley has unveiled the public health white paper saying it goes further and faster in tackling causes of premature death and illness and reducing health inequalities.
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NewsSpeech therapy saves NHS £13.3m a year
Every £1 invested in speech and language therapy for stroke patients with swallowing problems – dysphagia – generates £2.3 in savings through avoided chest infections, a report shows.
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NewsNHS Haringey and Great Ormond Street end contract
NHS Haringey, one of the organisations at the centre of the Baby P case, has said it needs a new provider of children’s community health services after Great Ormond Street Hospital opted not to renew its contract with the primary care trust.
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NewsIncrease in assaults on NHS workers
There was an increase in physical assaults on NHS staff last year, with almost 57,000 incidents taking place, latest figures show.
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NewsMaternity units may close, despite pre election pledges
The controversial closure of three maternity units in Greater Manchester looks set to go ahead – in spite of health secretary Andrew Lansley’s personal intervention in the case in the run up to the general election.
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NewsLondon to fund development pot for pathfinders
NHS London is to pay pathfinder commissioning consortia £1.66 per registered patient to support their development.
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NewsPCT grip on local priorities being 'eroded'
The PCT Network has called on the Department of Health to reduce the “central direction” of primary care trusts to a minimum in the operating framework.
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NewsPCT stroke spending at odds with outcomes
London primary care trusts that spend similar amounts on stroke achieve vastly differing outcomes, data analysis shows.
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NewsGovernment to target teenage smoking
The coalition government is planning “radical” action to curb teenage smoking, ban cheap alcohol and to encourage mothers to breastfeed at work, Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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NewsLung cancer rates for women soar
Rates of lung cancer in women have soared in a sign that efforts to persuade them to quit smoking have failed, research reveals.
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NewsLatest Dr Foster guide reveals hospital trusts with high death rates
Death rates at 19 hospital trusts in England were alarmingly high last year, according to the latest Dr Foster Hospital Guide.
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NewsMid Staffs chief exec confirms departure next year
The chief executive of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has confirmed he is to leave the trust when his contract expires next year.
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NewsFTs make pre-emptive defence against Hospital Guide findings
Two large foundation trusts have questioned the methods and findings of the Dr Foster Hospital Guide, ahead of its publication this weekend.
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NewsMonitor flags finance problems at hospital foundation trust
The foundation trust regulator Monitor has highlighted significant financial problems at Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals Foundation Trust.
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NewsExclusive: Hinchingbrooke winner critiques NHS procurement
Ali Parsa, managing partner of Circle - the private business that has just secured the contract to run Hinchingbrooke Hospital - believes the NHS must reform the way it buys services.
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NewsSainsbury's 'to give GPs free room for surgeries'
Sainsbury’s is to give GPs free room to set up in-store surgeries and will market the service to shoppers.
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NewsTemperature linked to sharp rises in admissions
Plummeting temperatures increase the number of adults admitted to hospital suffering serious injury, according to the largest study of its kind.
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NewsPassive smoking linked to 1% of deaths
Passive smoking claims more than 600,000 lives each year around the world - an estimated 1% of all deaths, a major study has found.
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NewsNHS London gives hundreds of staff at-risk notices
NHS London has begun alerting hundreds of staff internally and across the capital’s 31 primary care trusts that their jobs are at risk.