Health Service Journal
Long term conditions
Stories with this category.
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Best of 2012: long-term conditions
23-Dec-2012
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We must beat our hospital addiction
5-Dec-2012
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We have the technology − an HSJ supplement on telehealth
29 November 2012
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Labour's vision of 21st century care
28-Nov-2012
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Hunt puts 'technology revolution' in his top four priorities
26-Nov-2012
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NHS services may move to internet
26-Nov-2012
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Palliative care reform warning
22-Nov-2012
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Liver disease on the rise in England
21-Nov-2012
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Think About Your Life puts people's experience first
16-Nov-2012
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Mandate approach will avoid perverse incentives
13-Nov-2012
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Obese NHS staff criticised in Lords
13-Nov-2012
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Government funds trial to boost early detection of dementia
9-Nov-2012
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Let's find the political will to integrate care
8 November 2012
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MPs call for improved diabetes care
6-Nov-2012
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Are wellbeing boards working?
1 November 2012
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‘The Health Act is a car crash and that’s a shame’
25 October 2012
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A fair deal for older people
25 October 2012
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Audiology patients hit by efficiency drive
23-Oct-2012
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Living rooms turning into virtual wards to cut admissions
12-Oct-2012
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Health minister claims MPs becoming more 'responsible' about reconfiguration
8-Oct-2012
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In defence of small hospitals
27 September 2012
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Eye patients 'wait too long' for treatment
25-Sep-2012
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Child epilepsy care variations revealed
24-Sep-2012
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Gloucestershire patients rate telehealth
17-Sep-2012
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New health ministers' portfolios unveiled
17-Sep-2012
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Vision support service is launched in Scotland
14-Sep-2012
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Fixing the broken system
6 September 2012
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Putting the quality back into QIPP
6 September 2012
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The healthcare arms race
6 September 2012
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Kidney donations site to launch
31-Aug-2012
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Huge rise in gastric bypass ops
24-Aug-2012
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Pensioner cancer cases 'to treble by 2040'
20-Aug-2012
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Leeds and Bradford to be designated centre for rare respiratory condition
7-Aug-2012
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Call to target kidney care costs
7-Aug-2012
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Post Polio Syndrome awareness urged
3-Aug-2012
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Life expectancy linked to jobless rate
3-Aug-2012
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Electronic health research funding
2-Aug-2012
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England 'could learn integration lessons from Wales'
1-Aug-2012
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Games drug testing labs to become research centre
1-Aug-2012
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Survey finds 91pc of people have not heard of telehealth
27-Jul-2012
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'NHS must grasp a world of opportunity'
26-Jul-2012
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Nicholas Timmins: the aftermath of reform
12-Jul-2012
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New quality of life indicators reveal long term condition inequalities
11-Jul-2012
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Long term conditions care - an HSJ supplement
9-Jul-2012
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A few words on self-management
5 July 2012
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Ciarán Devane: out with the old
5 July 2012
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Management of AF 'needs revising'
3-Jul-2012
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The NHS must address its blind spot on older people's services
28-Jun-2012
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Jim Easton: let’s get serious about telehealth
25-Jun-2012
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Insights into oral chemotherapy service redesign
18-Jun-2012
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The benefits of centralised emergency services are less than clear
14-Jun-2012
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How diabetes data can unlock more funding for services
31 May 2012
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New research centre for major diseases opens
29-May-2012
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Minister rejects cancer drugs fund
25-May-2012
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Commissioning outcomes framework will enable meaningful quality improvement
24-May-2012
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An innovative approach to redesigned oncology services
24-May-2012
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Diabetes audit reveals thousands of errors in one week
17-May-2012
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How to improve commissioning for long term conditions
17 May 2012
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Dementia care initiatives trumpeted in East Sussex
13-May-2012
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PCTs failing to implement continence guidance
10-May-2012
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Sir John Oldham will not take up a role on NHS Commissioning Board
4-May-2012
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Prostate cancer rates now top 40,000 annually
4-May-2012
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Value-based pricing 'will not improve' cancer drug access
3 May 2012
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DH reveals swift year-of-care tariff plans
2-May-2012
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NHS Somerset awards £1.2m telehealth contract
30-Apr-2012
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Warwickshire nurses create 'diabetes listener' service
30-Apr-2012
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'Incentives required' to improve arthritis support
26-Apr-2012
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Prostate treatment pioneered at Southampton
25-Apr-2012
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Demand for lifesaving treatment could outstrip supply
19-Apr-2012
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New patient group to be launched at East Kent Hospitals
16-Apr-2012
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Leicester study leads to anti heart disease drive for women
28-Mar-2012
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Older cancer patients' treatment restricted, Macmillan claims
26-Mar-2012
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Cameron outlines alcohol pricing plans
23-Mar-2012
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Neurological care 'hit by lack of leadership'
16-Mar-2012
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COPD community clinics launched in Beds
13-Mar-2012
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Committee divided over alcohol pricing plan
8-Mar-2012
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Safer passage: how care navigators help improve mental health services
6-Mar-2012
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London GPs off the pace on exercise programmes
1-Mar-2012
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Nick Seddon: healthcare reform's new dawn
1-Mar-2012
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The need for greed in public health spending budgets
1 March 2012
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NHS to extend HIV care to overseas visitors
28-Feb-2012
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Common cancers get faster referrals, study shows
24-Feb-2012
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Commissioning board a 'folly', says Diabetes UK chief
21-Feb-2012
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The benefits of delivering healthcare in patients' homes
14-Feb-2012
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Andrew Lansley: competition is critical for NHS reform
13-Feb-2012
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Improving comorbity care is a key challenge for mental health
9-Feb-2012
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Integrate treatment for mental and physical conditions, NHS told
9-Feb-2012
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How improved medication adherence can prevent costly medicine waste
9 February 2012
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West Cheshire clinical commissioners set out clinical priorites
8-Feb-2012
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Fine hospitals restricting bowel cancer care, charity says
25-Jan-2012
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One in five deaths now 'in own home'
19-Jan-2012
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How a lean approach can improve care for the growing number of cancer patients
19 January 2012
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Independent assessment could reduce long-term sickness absence
19 January 2012
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Patients needing home oxygen services may have to take deliveries at night during Olympics
16-Jan-2012
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Reaping joint benefits of streamlined hip and knee care pathways
16-Jan-2012
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DH considers year-of-care tariff for patients with long term conditions
12-Jan-2012
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Why physical health checks for mental health patients are vital to their wellbeing
12 January 2012
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Sight loss patients 'need more help'
9-Jan-2012
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Understanding non-compliance to improve patient behaviours
6-Jan-2012
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Give doctors stronger assisted dying powers, report says
5-Jan-2012
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'Integrated care should be this decade's number one priority'
5-Jan-2012
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Integrated care needs 'ambitious' target to succeed, DH told
5-Jan-2012
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NHS Confederation home care call backed
4-Jan-2012
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24,000 diabetes deaths 'preventable', report claims
14-Dec-2011
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Government urged to raise alcohol prices by leading medics
14-Dec-2011
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'Specialised commissioning gives the NHS Commissioning Board a chance to deliver'
8 December 2011
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Lung cancer services audit reveals little improvement
7-Dec-2011
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Results business? The view from the HSJ Payments by Results conference 2011
6-Dec-2011
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New duties on waiting times and readmissions for providers in Operating Framework
24-Nov-2011
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CCG to fund diabetes diet service in East Sussex
22-Nov-2011
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How a COPD care bundle is reducing readmissions
22-Nov-2011
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AQUA launches COPD care pack
16-Nov-2011
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'Healing our finances needs a long term, not short term, strategy'
10 November 2011
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How to improve care standards for dementia patients
7-Nov-2011
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Lung cancer causing 1,000 'unnecessary' deaths a year
4-Nov-2011
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Why good governance is vital for telehealth services
3 November 2011
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Targeting 'risky' male drinkers could save NHS £120m - report
31-Oct-2011
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Sheffield Hospitals diabetes trial wins £2m funding
26-Oct-2011
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Independent NHS screening review launched
26-Oct-2011
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Personal budget holders need more information, says DH report
21-Oct-2011
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How a weather forecasting service can reduce COPD hospital admissions
17-Oct-2011
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'After destructive debate, the case for reform needs to be rebuilt'
13 October 2011
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How to coordinate integrated care across multidisciplinary groups
12-Oct-2011
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NHS Gloucestershire invests in telehealth
11-Oct-2011
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MS patient care not improving, report claims
10-Oct-2011
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'We cannot tolerate incompetence in the search for sustainability'
6-Oct-2011
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Cigarette vending machines ban to improve health in children
3-Oct-2011
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NHS costs cut by smoking schemes, study shows
30-Sep-2011
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Trusts' cancer targets being missed - Monitor
29-Sep-2011
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'Healthcare without competition is financially unsustainable'
29-Sep-2011
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'Healthcare history can help us transform elderly care today'
29 September 2011
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Positive outcome: why the new DH strategy for COPD and asthma promises improvements
29 September 2011
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Doctors 'failing' cancer patients on side effects
26-Sep-2011
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Integrated care needs the clinical-managerial marriage to work
23-Sep-2011
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'The NHS needs to avoid the wrong kind of integration'
22-Sep-2011
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Giving dementia the attention and support it needs - and deserves
12-Sep-2011
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Research reveals disparity in UK bowel cancer survival rates
12-Sep-2011
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Getting better with age: the challenges an ageing population poses to care providers
8 September 2011
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Why critical comparisons are needed to improve management of patients with chronic diseases
8 September 2011
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GPs commission new Norfolk community COPD service
5-Sep-2011
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'Misleading' cancer screening programme under fire
2-Sep-2011
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'Health services need a new type of investment to help achieve savings'
2-Sep-2011
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Cancer drug access unequal across UK
30-Aug-2011
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Calderdale PCT tenders for a new diabetes screening service
26-Aug-2011
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£2bn costs warning over growing obesity cases
26-Aug-2011
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Diabetes medication costing NHS £725m a year
25-Aug-2011
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Lung disease costs to rise in retirement hotspots
25-Aug-2011
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A flexible intervention model driving positive, sustainable change in public health
25 August 2011
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Hospitals seeing 900 more alcohol related cases a day
25 August 2011
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Local forecast: predicting healthcare demand, and targeting interventions
25 August 2011
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Chronic illness link with suicide revealed
23-Aug-2011
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How NHS collaboration with the pharma industry could benefit both players
18 August 2011
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'The focus now for those who manage healthcare should be value'
18 August 2011
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Trebled number of smokers quitting sees overall success rate drop
17-Aug-2011
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Exclusive: the Christie plans national 'chain' of cancer centres
16-Aug-2011
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'Financial reward' kidney donation comment sparks row
3-Aug-2011
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Improved early cancer detection initiative begins
2-Aug-2011
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Cancer tsar calls for radiotherapy investment
27-Jul-2011
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PCT rapped over skin cancer service standards
21 July 2011
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Putting power in the hands of patients to tackle long term conditions
21 July 2011
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NHS medical director: technology like international consultations will transform service
12-Jul-2011
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North Staffordshire PCT in obesity surgery appeal
11-Jul-2011
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Easton: QIPP can provide 'crisis' needed to break hospital dependence
8-Jul-2011
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Warner: DH resisting Dilnot reforms
7-Jul-2011
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End-of-life funding change would be 'fairer' on patients
1-Jul-2011
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Calls for quicker ovarian cancer diagnosis
27-Jun-2011
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Four GP visits before cancer diagnosis for quarter of young patients
24-Jun-2011
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Time to change: challenging the stigma around mental health
23-Jun-2011
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How technology can support evidence-based models to improve chronic care
23 June 2011
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Doctor warns over mental health care 'vacuum'
21-Jun-2011
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Cameron to embark on new reforms
20-Jun-2011
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Rare cancer drugs budget underspent by nearly half
16-Jun-2011
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Assisted suicide documentary defended by Pratchett
14-Jun-2011
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Councils poised to scale back consortia freedoms
13-Jun-2011
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Cancer patients to be hit by welfare reform
13-Jun-2011
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Cancer treatment disadvantage for older patients
9-Jun-2011
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Arthritis Research UK launches new range of patient information resources
9 June 2011
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Health secretary sets sights on improved dementia care
7-Jun-2011
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Neurology care criticised by RCP
7-Jun-2011
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Four arrested over residential hospital 'abuse'
2-Jun-2011
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Macmillan urges support for cancer patients
27-May-2011
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'Better quality data will help to reduce variations in care'
26-May-2011
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DH remains committed to personal health budgets
26 May 2011
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Improving transition care of young cancer surivers: new publication launched
26 May 2011
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Tackling public health inequalities: NHS BEN's fight against smoking
26 May 2011
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International index finds UK obesity growing
24-May-2011
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Lung cancer audit shows huge variations between trusts
23-May-2011
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Exclusive: Commissioning Board will be told to save cancer lives
20-May-2011
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QIPP and care plans for long term conditions: revisited
19 May 2011
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Cardiologists call for better specialist centres
6-May-2011
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The smoother pathways leading to reduced length of stay
5 May 2011
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Alcohol causing thousands of consultations every day, survey reveals
3-May-2011
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Managing long-term conditions: an HSJ special report
28-Apr-2011
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Fit for purpose: keeping vital employment support for patients with long-term conditions
28-Apr-2011
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Are commissioners in it for the long haul?
28-Apr-2011
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Good call: why telehealth is so important to patients with long-term conditions
28-Apr-2011
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West Sussex consortium runs into trouble with charity over nursing posts
27-Apr-2011
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NHS North Yorkshire scopes telehealth success
21-Apr-2011
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Multi agency investigation into Legionnaires' disease case
20-Apr-2011
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Adult social care 'faces £1bn cut'
18-Apr-2011
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Free tickets to HSJ's Managing Long Term Conditions conference
18-Apr-2011
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£18m assisted living technologies project announced
31 March 2011
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Health board investigates care home deaths
28-Mar-2011
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MPs to hear criticism of MS care
28-Mar-2011
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'Presumed consent' proposal to Westminster withdrawn
15-Mar-2011
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SNP announces health pledges ahead of election
14-Mar-2011
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NHS reform vital to treating long-term conditions, says Lansley
14-Mar-2011
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Health bodies withdraw from alcohol policy
14-Mar-2011
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Early diagnosis will accelerate the delivery of better cancer care
8-Mar-2011
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£775m for medical outcomes research
7-Mar-2011
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Home Office vows fair deal on equality
4-Mar-2011
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Breast screening programme a success
3 March 2011
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PCTs fail to assess value of cancer spend
2-Mar-2011
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Cancer gap with Europe 'not closed', report finds
1-Mar-2011
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'Care in the home' scheme helping reduce length of stay and hospital admissions
1-Mar-2011
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Anti-smoking strategy unveiled
25-Feb-2011
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Experts warn of increase in alcohol-related deaths
21-Feb-2011
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Advanced cancer scanning centre officially opened
18-Feb-2011
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Competition can work, but only with the right tactics
17 February 2011
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Joint surgery redesign could save trusts £664m
17 February 2011
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Public-private health services show bright promise in Spain
16-Feb-2011
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Alcohol admissions 'to hit 1.5m by 2015'
15-Feb-2011
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Providing visually impaired patients with the right access to information
14-Feb-2011
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Calls to review hospital death guidance
11-Feb-2011
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Michael White: somwhere to escape the cuts
10 February 2011
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Non-optimised joint replacement pathways to create wear and tear on 2011-12 budgets
10 February 2011
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Report reveals prisoners' alcohol problems
9-Feb-2011
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Cancer death rates in Europe 'to fall'
9-Feb-2011
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NHS South Staffordshire behind on LTC targets
8-Feb-2011
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Groundbreaking radiotherapy equipment goes into service
7-Feb-2011
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Discharge delays questioned after patient deaths
7-Feb-2011
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Cancer care overhaul needed, says Macmillan
4-Feb-2011
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A patient’s perspective on the NHS
3 February 2011
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Thousands of cancer patients 'denied radiotherapy'
28-Jan-2011
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Norfolk PCT behind schedule on QIPP plan
25-Jan-2011
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Dementia patients 'need more home care'
25-Jan-2011
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What happens if the health reforms work?
24-Jan-2011
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Commissioning board should run large scale 'experiments' - UnitedHealth head
18-Jan-2011
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RCS warns on 'backdoor rationing' in NHS
17-Jan-2011
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Productivity gains elude NHS trusts
17 December 2010
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Pickles unveils settlement
13-Dec-2010
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How will the health reforms be judged?
9 December 2010
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Social care cuts may raise hospital spend
9 December 2010
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QIPP and care plans for long-term conditions
6-Dec-2010
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GP incentive framework fails to slow admissions
25 November 2010
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Telehealth could save NHS £2bn
19-Nov-2010
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Government to set out social care plans
16-Nov-2010
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£800m savings identified through better COPD care
11 November 2010
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A guide to redesigning COPD care pathways
11 November 2010
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COPD care: how to save millions
11 November 2010
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How to unlock savings by redesigning COPD care pathways
11 November 2010
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The national public health service
11 November 2010
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Commissioning tools launched for neuro conditions and cardiac rehab
29-Oct-2010
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NHS efficiency savings could get a rough ride
28 October 2010
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Outsourcing quotas to drive mixed health services provider market
27-Oct-2010
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Pledge to cut anti-psychotic drug use
26-Oct-2010
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Take the lead in preventing ill health
14 October 2010
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Hospital parking charges attacked
13-Oct-2010
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Eating disorders in children rise by 11%
13-Oct-2010
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Trusts to be tested on dementia care standards
29-Sep-2010
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UK 'behind on pain management'
29-Sep-2010
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MS doctor 'should be struck off' - GMC
28-Sep-2010
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A missed opportunity to improve care for long-term conditions
17-Sep-2010
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HIV cases predicted to rise
17-Sep-2010
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Bigger role for pharmacists could save £800m
16 September 2010
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King’s Fund criticises GPs on dementia diagnosis
16 September 2010
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Continence care criticised
14-Sep-2010
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Hospital drivers to vote on strike action
20-Aug-2010
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Understanding how patients behave could help cut NHS waste
19 August 2010
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New outcomes measures may be de facto targets
22 July 2010
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Long term care funding commission set terms of reference
20-Jul-2010
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GPs and QIPP: is there a doctor on board?
15 July 2010
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Outcome goals to replace performance framework
12-Jul-2010
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Patients to be given choice of GP and consultant
12-Jul-2010
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HSJ Awards 2010: Managing Long Term Conditions
8 July 2010
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Paul Corrigan on how the third sector will save the NHS
8 July 2010
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How to deliver care closer to home
7-Jul-2010
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PCTs to 'road test' direct payments to patients
28-Jun-2010
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Outpatient experience
17-Jun-2010
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Neurological care
7-Jun-2010
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ASBO issued to patient who faked illness
4-Jun-2010
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Mark Britnell on increasing NHS productivity
3 June 2010
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Long term condition services inefficient due to poor design
27 May 2010
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Neil Churchill: NHS savings on long term conditions
20 May 2010
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Decommissioning homeopathy
19-May-2010
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Jeremy Taylor on involving patients in hospital closures
6 May 2010
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Joint commissioning
4-May-2010
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Clinical dashboards
29-Apr-2010
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Self care provider to introduce 'payment by results' pilot
29 April 2010
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Funding innovation
22-Apr-2010
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Self care planning
22-Apr-2010
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Commissioning has 'singularly failed' on long term conditions
21-Apr-2010
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'Trust' key to joint working between PCTs and pharma
21-Apr-2010
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NHS sustainability: moving care into the community
19-Apr-2010
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Hospital closures: the taboo has been broken
15 April 2010
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Noel Plumridge on the NHS budget
15 April 2010
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Labour pledges personalised care revolution
13-Apr-2010
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NHS sustainability: how to achieve long term efficiencies
6-Apr-2010
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David Kerr: health policy just got personal
31 March 2010
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Andy McKeon: why money could not unravel the NHS red tape
25 March 2010
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Chris Ham on urgency for healthcare innovation
25 March 2010
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Reactor repairs hold up diagnostic test supplies
25 March 2010
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Budget cuts NHS spending estimate by £500m
24-Mar-2010
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Burnham, Lamb and Lansley clash in health debate
24-Mar-2010
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NHS is yet to capture the wealth of the net
18 March 2010
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Close hospital beds to save money, says report
17-Mar-2010
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NHS boards should welcome disability
15-Mar-2010
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NHS managers demand power to fire GPs
11 March 2010
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Innovation - harnessing the power of communities
4 March 2010
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New chief executive in post
26-Feb-2010
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One country, one surgeon
25-Feb-2010
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Nurse specialists 'save money'
25 February 2010
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Transforming community services for people with long term conditions
23-Feb-2010
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Andrew Jones on the politics of wellbeing
18 February 2010
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Michael White: NHS spending pledges
11 February 2010
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Government promises free cancer home care
8-Feb-2010
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Home care ‘could save NHS more than £1bn a year’
4 February 2010
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It’s crunch time, but job cuts are not the only way to save the NHS money
4 February 2010
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Tories pledge to slash hospital readmissions
1-Feb-2010
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Commissioning and Delivering Integrated Care - conference sessions
29-Jan-2010
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Rise in acute admissions will be ‘unsustainable’ for PCTs
21 January 2010
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Expert Patient Programme: self-managing with a mouse
15-Jan-2010
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Improvement tsar warns SHAs to ‘refresh’ Darzi visions urgently
14 January 2010
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Politics ‘distracting’ from NHS quality drive
14 January 2010
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Internet fund 'to boost telehealth'
12-Jan-2010
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Andy Burnham gets personal with tailored care drive
7 January 2010
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Telehealth and telecare
Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
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NHS Direct appoints permanent chair
23-Dec-2009
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Cross-sector clusters set up to fast-track NHS innovation
22-Dec-2009
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‘Avoid merger distractions’
16-Dec-2009
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Andy Burnham tells local government and NHS not to be 'precious' about funding
10-Dec-2009
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Patients could be offered one to one nursing care
10-Dec-2009
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Tory pledge on NHS targets might not hit the spot
10 December 2009
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Labour plan puts adult social care in NHS hands as ministers seek savings
9-Dec-2009
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Birmingham takes top prize at HSJ Awards
3 December 2009
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Darzi says focus on long term conditions
1-Jul-2009
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Supporting long term conditions in the NHS
4-Jun-2009
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Long Term Conditions Alliance faces merger
16-Oct-2008
