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New leadership team to take NHS IT forward
The new leadership team to take forward the government's health IT programme has been announced by the Department of Health.Christine Connelly will be the first chief information officer for health and Martin Bellamy will be the director of programme and system delivery.
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DH announces new IT and information leads
The Department of Health has appointed the former IT chief for Cadbury Schweppes as the chief information officer for the NHS. Christine Connelly will lead the overall information strategy across the NHS.
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London trusts form health science partnership
University College London and four trusts in the capital are founding Europe's largest academic health science partnership.Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children trust, Moorfields Eye Hospital foundation trust, the Royal Free Hampstead trust and University College London Hospitals foundation trust will form UCL Partners.
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DH launches consultation on NHS constitution
The Department of Health has formally launched the constitutional advisory forum, which will lead the consultation on the proposed NHS constitution.
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Review of C difficile cases at Scottish hospital
An independent review into cases of C difficile associated disease at the Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria, has found its facilities 'inadequate for effective patient isolation and infection control'.
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Primary care trusts advised on MMR vaccination programme
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has written to primary care trusts to ask them to offer the MMR vaccine to all under-18s who have not been vaccinated.
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NICE consultation on kidney cancer drugs
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has recommended that bevacizumab, sorafenib, sunitinib and temsirolimus should not be treatment options for advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
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Emma Dent on summer in the city
There are good things about summer in the city when half the populace have cleared off somewhere with less concrete.
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Managers losing sleep as 48-hour week nears
The clock is ticking on the European working time directive, with only a year until junior doctors’ hours are cut. Alison Moore asks if trusts are ready to make the change
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London trusts join forces in research venture
University College London and four trusts in the capital are founding Europe's largest academic health science partnership.
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Trusts warned C difficile probe decision sets no precedent
The decision not to launch a criminal investigation into deaths at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust will not set a precedent, NHS managers have been warned.
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Top-up review risks compromising NHS credibility
The government's review of the ban on 'top-up' payments for non-NHS treatments risks compromising the credibility of the NHS, public health chiefs are warning.
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BBC to take a role in NHS Choices site
The BBC and Picker Institute are preparing to play a role in the running of the NHS Choices website, alongside outsourcing giant Capita.
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Accounting rule changes to cost hospitals £146m
New accountancy rules will bring up to 16bn of extra debt onto the NHS balance sheet and cost hospitals 146m a year.
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£550m set aside to fund Darzi
The Department of Health has set aside £150m from next year's NHS budget and £400m in 2010-11 to pay for the commitments set out in health minister Lord Darzi's review.
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Monitor steps in as trust losses soar
Monitor has exercised its intervention powers for the second time since its creation with a formal notice to the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases foundation trust.
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Minority staff get worse deal on jobs, pay and grievances
Widespread disadvantages faced by black and minority ethnic NHS staff have been laid bare in a stark analysis of recruitment, bullying, grievance and disciplinary rates.
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Do not marginalise drug addiction
Thank you HSJ for flagging up the 'neglect' of common mental health problems in specialist mental health trusts.
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Some are more equally paid than others
The Appeal Court's decision in the Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough borough councils equal pay case will prove a curate's egg for NHS trusts. At the heart of the decision are answers to questions about pay protection. This operates where an employer buffers the effects of having to bring male ...
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Much to learn about disability
The findings of the independent inquiry into access to healthcare for people with learning disabilities prove that people with a learning disability are being discriminated against in the NHS, which is leading to unnecessary pain and death.