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NewsGone but not forgotten - the Labour health team
What people are saying about departing health ministers Ann Keen, Gillian Merron, Mike O’Brien and Phil Hope
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NewsHealth minister Ann Keen loses seat to Conservatives
Health minister Ann Keen has lost her Brentford and Isleworth seat to the Conservatives.
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NewsElection 2010: a candidate watchlist for the NHS
The incoming and outgoing MPs that matter to the health service
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NewsNew body to improve NHS workforce planning
A new body is being set up to help health and social care managers plan their workforce.
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NewsTrusts poised to eliminate mixed sex wards, report says
Most NHS hospitals in England are poised to provide single sex wards and facilities for everyone by June next year, according to health minister Ann Keen.
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NewsAdvances in care for kidney patients
Over the past five years the diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease has improved “significantly”, according to health officials.
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NewsNursing to become degree only profession
The government has rubber stamped plans for nursing in England to become a degree only profession
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NewsMedical negligence proposals would force managers to confess
NHS managers could be made to confess and apologise if patients are harmed due to medical negligence.
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HSJ KnowledgeIntegrated care: pride of the community
District nurses embody the high quality workforce envisioned by Darzi, but the sector lacks the commitment to attract new nurses to this 150 year old service, says Daloni Carlisle
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NewsHospital trusts told to set up acute oncology services
The Department of Health has asked all hospitals with emergency departments to establish acute oncology services.
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NewsNHS admin staff costing PCTs £1.2bn, say Tories
The NHS spent £1.2bn on administrative and clerical staff last year, compared with £700m on cancer drugs, according to the Tories.
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LeaderNHS patient safety hotline may just be a solution looking for a problem
Is the government in danger of trying too hard on patient safety?
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NewsNHS patient safety hotline delayed
A “key element” in the drive to improve patient safety - Patient Safety Direct - has been delayed until next summer, despite ministerial assurances that it would be in place last year.
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NewsPublic consultation on complementary therapies opens
Regulation of herbal medicine, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine will be considered by a public consultation that has been launched by the Department of Health.
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CommunityHSJ and a bit of satire and Darzi's sorted
Interesting to dissect the reading habits of the pre-reshuffle health ministers - a parliamentary answer last week revealed that while most of Lord Darzi’s colleagues had several “periodicals” delivered to their private office in May, he survives on just HSJ and Private Eye.
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NewsAndy Burnham: don't sideline NHS quality
Raising the quality of services is the best way to improve productivity as NHS spending is cut, and this should not be a time of “gloom”, the new health secretary has told HSJ.
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CommentMichael White: a search for good news in the NHS
With the expenses scandal delivering the most humiliating week for Westminster politics that I can remember in 30 years this column is committed to finding something more cheerful to write about MPs today.
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NewsHealth minister Phil Hope to pay back £42,000 in expenses
MPs’ expenses have continued to dominate the news right up to the end of the week, with care minister Phil Hope pledging to pay back almost £42,000 and shadow health minister Andrew Lansley agreeing to return £2,600.
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Sweeping review of nursing announced
Prime minister Gordon Brown has launched a sweeping review of the future of nursing.
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New guidance on NHS complaints
New guidance has been published on the NHS and social care complaints system.