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£1m ploughed into Northern Irish telehealth initiatives
Northern Ireland health minister Paul Goggins pledged £1m for telehealth and telemedicine projects in the health service.He said the new technologies would help the NHS cope with the impact of an ageing population.Read the press release here
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Welsh hospices to benefit from funding boost
Hospices are to benefit from £14.4m for 'key services' pledged by Welsh finance minister Sue Essex.Under the Welsh National Assembly's revised budget, hospices will benefit from the extra funds along with schools, higher education, foster care, domestic violence victims, disabled children and firefighters.
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Measures to make people fitter unveiled
A package of measures to help inactive people become fitter have been unveiled by public health minister Caroline Flint.She said pilots had shown that physical activity interventions are cost-effective and can save the NHS money in the long-term by reducing ill health.An exercise referral scheme resulted in more than 70 ...
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Sir Liam: public health was rushed
The chief medical officer for England has revealed that he was given just two hours to insert a reference to public health into the Department of Health's key policy document, Commissioning a Patient-led NHS.
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PCTs 'should have more responsibility for prisoners'
Primary care trusts should be given responsibility and funding for the treatment of prisoners outside jail, to ensure that decisions not to treat people within the prison walls are based on clinical imperatives.The 'escorts and bedwatches' study, jointly funded by the Department of Health ...
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Alliance warns of NHS emergency
The NHS will face a 'medical emergency' if it fails to get clinicians - especially GPs - on board for its reform agenda, according to NHS Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon.He told the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence conference that new professional executive committees must include greater clinical ...
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Hospital campaigns could cause 1,000 unnecessary deaths: think tank
The Institute for Public Policy Research has concluded that campaigns to save services currently provided in district general hospitals could lead to more than 1,000 unnecessary deaths a year.Associate director Richard Brookes said: 'On the strength of the evidence, people should be out on the streets campaigning for changes to ...
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Independent provider quality indicators put online
Independent healthcare provider BUPA has published its clinical and service quality indicators online. The information includes infection, readmission and return to theatre rates.For more information click here
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Physical activity mapping questionnaire launched
A questionnaire to help GPs determine the level of physical activity carried out by patients has been published.For more information click here
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PCTs should be more accountable, chiefs say
A poll of PCT chief executives and chairs has found that they think their organisations need to be more accountable to patients and local communities. Almost half felt foundation trust style membership could help strengthen local accountability.www.nhsconfed.org
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Scottish mental health delivery plan published
The Scottish Executive has published a mental health delivery plan, including basic mental health training for everyone who works with children, halving admissions of children and young people to adult beds and reducing anti-depressant prescribing and repeat hospital admissions for mental illness.To read the plan click ...
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Czars make case for service reconfiguration
National director for emergency access Sir George Alberti has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration of access to emergency care services. And national director for heart disease and stroke Professor Roger Boyle has published a report setting out the clinical case for reconfiguration in heart disease ...
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A networking approach to commissioning
Intelligent commissioning will not succeed unless commissioners at all levels are able to profit from the experience of others and understand their own contribution in the context of the contributions of others
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Matrons national network
This newly established network is aimed at matrons within acute settings, allowing them to share practice, ideas and innovation and set standards within patient experience and patient environment. The matrons national network aims to:
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Teaching PCTs conference
The Teaching Primary Care Trusts Network held its national conference at the end of October.
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Feedback on efficiency indicators
Nick Edwards is quite right to suggest that efficiency indicators do not tell the story behind the numbers ( Comment, page 3, 26th October) so why did the HSJ compound this by labelling us the worst Acute Trust in England for day surgery rates?
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Independent centre deals abandoned
The Department of Health is set to abandon a large swathe of its independent treatment centre programme more than a year after it invited providers to bid for the lucrative deals, HSJhas learned.
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I'm a celebrity, I love it here
Trusts will be able to spend as much as they like on advertising under a draft code of practice proposed by the Department of Health this week. Hospitals could also use celebrity patients to endorse their services.
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Peter Mason on social enterprise - the new punk rock?
'Social enterprises have crashed onto the scene with the same energy and style as punk rockers, the new kids on the block full of passion and hope'
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Monitor announces two more foundation trusts
King's College Hospital trust and North Hampshire Hospitals trust have been authorised for foundation trust status by regulator Monitor.The announcement takes the total number of foundations to 54 with a combined annual income of £10.81bn.Read the press release here