All articles by Victoria Vaughan – Page 2

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    Academic health science centre launched

    2007-10-04T09:00:00Z

    Imperial College Healthcare trust, the UK's first academic health science centre, was launched on Monday.

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    chief exec

    2007-10-02T00:00:00Z

    Barking, Redbridge and Havering NHS Trust has been asked not to give any further information on its chief executive stepping down by the Strategic Health Authority.A statement from the trust cited the reason for Mark Rees sudden departure as 'in light of the London health strategic plans and the objective ...

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    Tabacco

    2007-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The Faculty of Public Health and the Association of Public Health Directors have welcomed the restriction of tobacco sales to those over 18.President of the APHD Tim Crayford said: 'Rising thelegal minimumage of sale of tobaccobrings this nicely into line with alcohol. We back these proposals wholeheartedly.'The age ...

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    Hamish calls for more cash

    2007-10-01T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of the British Medical Association has told a government minister that more money and staff will be needed to improve GP access. Dr Hamish Meldrum spoke out after Ben Bradshaw, the health minister with responsibility for primary care, said more GPs were needed in under doctored areas and ...

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    DoH 'letting down ethnic minorities'

    2007-09-27T09:00:00Z

    The Department of Health has been found to have failed in its race equality duties and accused of being ‘obstructive’ to a Commission for Racial Equality probe.

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    BMA U-turn on GP pay plan

    2007-09-20T09:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association has distanced itself from proposed changes to GPs' pay that it jointly produced. It has argued that too many GPs will lose out under the proposals.

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    suffolk

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

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    Stroke service start

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    A 24-hour stroke service in north London has been launched at University College London Hospitals foundation trust in a joint initiative with the Whittington Hospital trust.

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    patient website

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    An independent patient feedback website, has won funding to extend its service to mental health users.Patient Opinion, the social enterprise behind the website www.patientopinion.org.uk, has secured funding to develop its service to cover mental health services in England.Founder of the site Dr Paul Hodgkin said the funding will be used ...

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    Inequality targeted

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    The most deprived areas of the country are to get help to raise life expectancy and meet 2010 targets to reduce health inequalities with a health inequalities intervention tool.

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    Deadly E. coli outbreak

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    The public health protection unit at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is working with environmental health at Renfrewshire Council, the Food Standards Agency and Health Protection Scotland to identify the source of a deadly outbreak of E.coli in Paisley. It had killed one woman and infected six others at the ...

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    DoH to push choice policy using payment by results

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    The government has announced it will begin using payment by results to drive choice.

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    PCTs to consult on Darzi's London blueprint

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    NHS London has asked the capital's primary care trusts to form a joint committee to carry out consultation on junior health minister Lord Darzi's report, A Framework for Action.The joint committee would be responsible for approving the consultation document, considering the impact the proposals would have on health inequalities and ...

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    Home births to be included in payment by results tariff

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Home births will be included in the payment by results tariff next year to support choice for women the chief executive of NHS has announced.

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    alcohol

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    There are more binge drinkers in Yorkshire and the Humber than in any other English region a report has shown.The report has been written by the North West Public Health Observatory as part of a series of Indications of Public Health in the English Regions from the Association of Public ...

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    Maternity networks invited to bid to become early adopter sites

    2007-09-20T00:00:00Z

    Maternity networks are being invited to bid to become early adopter sites to speed up the implementation of Maternity Matters.

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    PCTs fall short on consulting

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Primary care trusts need to provide leadership training to professional executive committees and have a strategy to consult with patients, the Commons public accounts committee has concluded.

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    'Outdated' IT systems raise MPs' concerns

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Hospitals have been forced to rely on increasingly outdated IT systems because of delays in implementing a major part of the national programme for IT, the Commons health select committee has warned.

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    chan wheeler

    2007-09-12T00:00:00Z

    The new commercial director at the Department of Health has committed himself to breaking down barriers and creating a level playing field in the NHS to enable the independent sector to provide care.Speaking at the inaugural annual conference on the independent sector Chan Wheeler delivered his first public address after ...

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    Roadmap

    2007-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Junior health minister Lord Darzi's polyclinics have received yet more criticism from clinicians as the Royal College of GPs has published its vision of the future.The Roadmap joins the British Medical Association and the NHS Alliance in criticising the term polyclinics and suggests an alternative model.The report says: 'We caution ...