Health Service Journal
Surgery
Stories with this category.
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Commissioners have rationed cataract surgery on inferior evidence, Keogh admits
15-Jan-2013
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Performance of individual surgeons to be published by next summer
18-Dec-2012
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'Whistleblowing' surgeon in High Court battle
27-Nov-2012
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Green light for East Sussex reconfiguration plans
23-Nov-2012
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Western Sussex sees benefits of orthopaedics recovery programme
21-Nov-2012
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East Sussex board backs reconfiguration plans
21-Nov-2012
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Surgery equipment accolade for Mid Staffs
21-Nov-2012
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Standards suffer when children's services are fragmented
16-Nov-2012
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Salisbury cancelled procedures due to spike in emergency demand
15-Nov-2012
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Concerns about consultant who delivered prime minister's baby date back more than 10 years
8-Nov-2012
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Blood and Transplant reports 'dramatic decline' in young donors
7-Nov-2012
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Rat droppings found in operating theatre
6-Nov-2012
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Aspirant FT says it has improved following CQC visit
5-Nov-2012
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Harpal Kumar: outcomes at risk
1 November 2012
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Hunt announces crackdown on unsafe surgery
30-Oct-2012
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Robot used in heart surgery first at Wolverhampton
24-Oct-2012
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Hunt launches review of children's heart surgery services
22-Oct-2012
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New vascular surgery service for Derbyshire
17-Oct-2012
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Warning against surgery age limits
16-Oct-2012
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Brighton board signs off business case for surgical unit
10-Oct-2012
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Reorganisation to blame for Nottingham bed crisis
28-Sep-2012
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Leicester Trust promotes safer surgery
25-Sep-2012
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Hospitals' superbug death payouts revealed
20-Sep-2012
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Nottingham to open 80 new beds after cancellations surge
14-Sep-2012
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Children's heart surgery decision faces judicial review
12-Sep-2012
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Attitude change needed to increase organ donation
11-Sep-2012
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Peer review finds 'serious concerns' at Mid Staffs
7-Sep-2012
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Let's be clear on cancellations
16 August 2012
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Uniting voices in epilepsy treatment
16 August 2012
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Review of cosmetic surgery launched
15-Aug-2012
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Surgeon calls for obesity surgery to be prioritised over end of life cancer drugs
6-Aug-2012
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East Sussex Healthcare seeks to ‘clarify’ future of services
31-Jul-2012
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Alder Hey Children's Trust responds to court case decision
30-Jul-2012
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Work begins on new theatres at QVH
24-Jul-2012
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Thousands protest against heart surgery closure
24-Jul-2012
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'Significant deficiencies' in emergency surgical care at trust
19-Jul-2012
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Royal Brompton rules out merger after losing heart services
11-Jul-2012
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Analysed: reconfiguration planned for Merseyside vascular services
10-Jul-2012
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Surgeons in warning over old equipment
9-Jul-2012
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Vascular services set for major reconfiguration
27-Jun-2012
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Eye boost for Warwick
18-Jun-2012
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Mid Staffs could merge with neighbour
12-Jun-2012
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'Cancel operations now', warns doctors' leader ahead of pension action
30-May-2012
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Barts chief executive asks for audit on cancelled operations
30-May-2012
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Northampton General takes on vascular surgery
28-May-2012
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Day surgery could increase by 15pc say analysts
18-May-2012
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Seeing GP of choice would cut elective admissions - study
10 May 2012
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Lessons learned from war injuries
4-May-2012
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Eye surgery error at Sandwell
1-May-2012
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New day surgery unit at Lincoln County Hospital
1-May-2012
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Stroke recovery care 'failing' patients
1-May-2012
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Norman Williams on driving change
26-Apr-2012
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Ali Parsa on hospital process management
26-Apr-2012
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'In 10 years' time, doctors will require a second opinion from a computer'
26-Apr-2012
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Health board seeks legal advice over torchlit surgery
23-Apr-2012
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GE Capital to finance equipment at new Kent hospital
19-Apr-2012
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PROMs performance improves slightly
17-Apr-2012
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Trust loses out on cash as patients 'readmitted' for just 10 minutes
4-Apr-2012
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New private hospital construction to get underway
2-Apr-2012
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Hospital in children's heart care row 'delaying' urgent improvements
20-Mar-2012
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A step-by-step guide to making total hip replacement deliver value
15 March 2012
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Reduced length of stay survey - HSJ readers' views wanted
14-Mar-2012
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DH hands Surrey and Sussex Healthcare £6m
12-Mar-2012
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'High volume surgery outcomes suggest there is safety in numbers'
8-Mar-2012
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Why a national implant registry is vital for patient safety
8 March 2012
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How to cut overnight stays and improve trauma pathways
23-Feb-2012
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'Low priority treatments should not let commissioners cut corners'
23-Feb-2012
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Private sector competition 'leaves NHS with more costly patients'
20-Feb-2012
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Why reconfiguration remains a difficult balance between commissioners and providers
16 February 2012
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New theatre build set to begin next month
13-Feb-2012
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QVH first to offer ‘claw hand’ drug on NHS
13-Feb-2012
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Surrey and Sussex buys new ultrasound equipment
8-Feb-2012
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More private clinics to treat implant patients for free
27-Jan-2012
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Insurance scheme planned for cosmetic surgery patients
20-Jan-2012
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Reaping joint benefits of streamlined hip and knee care pathways
16-Jan-2012
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Lansley outlines further 'steps' to address breast implants concerns
12-Jan-2012
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Media Watch: government facing breast implants scandal backlash
12 January 2012
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Nuffield Health makes pledge on implant surgery costs
5-Jan-2012
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Michael White: the mess in the cosmetic Wild West
5-Jan-2012
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Exclusive: contractual penalties to combat ‘hidden waits’ will not take effect until 2013-14
4-Jan-2012
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How a new heart valve treatment can improve heart disease mortality rates
28-Dec-2011
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Birmingham hospitals identify surgery reconfiguration benefits
16-Dec-2011
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Two soft tissue sarcoma surgery sites for Cornwall
15-Dec-2011
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High-risk surgery care 'poor' for more than half of patients
9-Dec-2011
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Strike cancels thousands of operations
28-Nov-2011
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Admission 'surge' caused hike in mixed sex breaches at East Sussex
25-Nov-2011
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Exclusive: Dr Foster names 10 trusts overlooking fast recovery processes
24-Nov-2011
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Improving cardiac care for clinicians while reducing cost to the NHS
24 November 2011
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Lung cancer causing 1,000 'unnecessary' deaths a year
4-Nov-2011
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Wiping kidney waiting list could save £650m
3-Nov-2011
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Lack of hospital surgery networks risking more child deaths
3 November 2011
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Yeovil wins £250k research grant
1-Nov-2011
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Children's care quality can be improved - study
27-Oct-2011
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How enhanced recovery in acute trusts can improve quality and outcomes
20 October 2011
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Waiting targets being missed by one in three PCTs
14-Oct-2011
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Frimley Park aims to save £0.5m to allow ward closure
10-Oct-2011
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Frimley Park positions itself to become 'major emergency centre'
10-Oct-2011
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Ipswich chief pledges vascular move will bring 'gold-standard care'
10-Oct-2011
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Exclusive: Keogh warns NHS against 'blanket' treatment bans
10-Oct-2011
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Hospital competition could 'negatively affect' quality
10-Oct-2011
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SHA highlights 'never events' at West Herts Hospitals
4-Oct-2011
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Mid Staffs to close 165 beds on road to recovery
4-Oct-2011
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'Medical tourism' warning over government cuts
30-Sep-2011
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Critical care is risking lives, say surgeons
29-Sep-2011
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'Healthcare history can help us transform elderly care today'
29 September 2011
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Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust judicial review to start this week
26-Sep-2011
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Is more surgery the answer to the nation's obesity crisis?
26-Sep-2011
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Organ donor plans condemned by Archbishop
23-Sep-2011
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First gastric bypass op at Ashford and St Peters’
19-Sep-2011
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NNUH calls on public to help protect future of local liver surgery
12-Sep-2011
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SE London cluster reviewing spinal surgery at Lewisham Hospital
12-Sep-2011
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18 week target remains a 'challenge' in North Staffs
1-Sep-2011
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Trust plans to realise mortuary income potential
1-Sep-2011
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Healthcare without limits: what the EU directive on cross-border care means for the NHS
30-Aug-2011
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£2bn costs warning over growing obesity cases
26-Aug-2011
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Queen Victoria awards construction contract
25-Aug-2011
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Sally Gainsbury: PROMs prove McKinsey right - nearly
25 August 2011
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NHS patients will wait longer under reform - Unison
24-Aug-2011
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Heart services consultation receives large response
24-Aug-2011
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A hire price to pay: how leasing equipment saves money and improves service quality
23-Aug-2011
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Aneurysms surgery moves from Darlington to Durham
22-Aug-2011
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How enhanced recovery is transforming surgical care pathways
18 August 2011
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Huge variation in reoperation rates for bowel cancer
17-Aug-2011
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Outer north east London lacks obesity management services
16-Aug-2011
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Trust U-turns over weight loss operation funding
16-Aug-2011
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Southampton Trust gains services as commissioners shun London
15-Aug-2011
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CQC finds Royal Cornwall has made improvements
15-Aug-2011
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Fewer tonsil operations are risking patient lives, hospitals warned
5-Aug-2011
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'Financial reward' kidney donation comment sparks row
3-Aug-2011
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New drivers will be asked to sign up to donor register
1-Aug-2011
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Patient operations deliberately delayed, CCP claims
29-Jul-2011
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Dispute over Leeds children's heart surgery
28-Jul-2011
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Liver transplant patients could hit 4,000 by 2020
28-Jul-2011
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Hepatitis B fears at hospital delay surgery
22-Jul-2011
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MPs urged to step in over children's heart unit closure
19-Jul-2011
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North East to double bariatric surgery
18-Jul-2011
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South Devon Healthcare FT praised for its hip replacements
14-Jul-2011
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Supporting surgery: how to get the best out of locum surgeons
13-Jul-2011
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North Staffordshire PCT in obesity surgery appeal
11-Jul-2011
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Hertfordshire PCT pledges £1.7m to delayed centre
5-Jul-2011
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Most trusts could be using faulty surgical tools
27-Jun-2011
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NHS fracture care spend to hit £6bn
27-Jun-2011
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Review children's heart unit closures, MPs told
24-Jun-2011
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Simulation Lab: test your healthcare improvement ideas
23-Jun-2011
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Preventing acute kidney injury: an HSJ special report
23 June 2011
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New service for private patients launched
22-Jun-2011
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Hip patient care 'epidemic' looming, warns institute
22-Jun-2011
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NHS Oldham providers lose £1.2m through rules to curb emergency treatment
17-Jun-2011
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Royal Cornwall ordered to improve after never event
17-Jun-2011
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Older women less likely to have breast cancer surgery
16-Jun-2011
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Clinical services should do their bit for efficiency, as well as productivity
16 June 2011
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The government shouldn't simply leave the past behind
16 June 2011
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'Biased' surgeons blamed for unnecessary recall
2-Jun-2011
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Leading doctors call for heart treatment policy changes
31-May-2011
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Clinician led changes to surgery 'could save NHS £40m'
31-May-2011
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The key steps to delivering excellence in emergency surgery
31-May-2011
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Great Ormond Street bowel unit to ease child surgery
25-May-2011
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New software gives UHB access to data from other trusts
24-May-2011
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Lung cancer audit shows huge variations between trusts
23-May-2011
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Locum surgeons 'not appropriately qualified'
19-May-2011
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North Tees and Hartlepool launches hip replacement recall
10-May-2011
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Neuro waits remain issue for NHS Brighton and Hove
10-May-2011
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals makes NICE award finals
10-May-2011
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Young patients oppose child cardiac changes
9-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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How a chemotherapy outreach service is putting care into the community
4-May-2011
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Grand designs: enhancing recovery on a bigger scale
3-May-2011
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Police to discuss controlled drugs policy with Frimley Park staff
26-Apr-2011
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Salford Royal averts risk of mixed sex accommodation breaches
21-Apr-2011
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NHS denying patients care, claims surgeon group
18-Apr-2011
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Identifying areas of readmission, and implementing the right interventions
18-Apr-2011
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Queen Victoria Hospital FT rolls out pre-surgical assessment pathway
12-Apr-2011
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Queen Victoria Hospital plans to promote its tertiary services
12-Apr-2011
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Hip and knee patients 'waiting in pain'
6-Apr-2011
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A new approach to workforce planning needed for surgeons to deliver high quality care
4-Apr-2011
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Southampton shocked at potential loss of children's heart surgery
31-Mar-2011
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Islington practices still referring 'low priority' procedures
28-Mar-2011
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Heart surgeons call for strong revalidation regime
24 March 2011
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Bradford plans to protect productivity next winter
22-Mar-2011
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Working as a team for better quality and safety in the operating theatre
17-Mar-2011
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Over activity at Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust
16-Mar-2011
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Cambridge UHFT is £3.2m below its planned surplus for the year
16-Mar-2011
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A&E pressures at Ashford and St Peter’s
16-Mar-2011
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Doncaster plans extension of new bariatric service
15-Mar-2011
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Review found surgery at Mid Staffs 'inadequate'
9-Mar-2011
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IT failure at UCLH closed A&E unit and led to surgery cancellation
9-Mar-2011
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Enhancing recovery pathways for planned surgical care
9-Mar-2011
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MP warns of 'huge gap' in heart care provision
4-Mar-2011
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Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals behind on PROMs
2-Mar-2011
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Oral surgery backlog at Heatherwood and Wexham Park FT
23-Feb-2011
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CQC demands urgent improvements Plymouth Hospitals
23-Feb-2011
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University Hospitals of Leicester struggling on 18 weeks and stroke
17-Feb-2011
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PCTs agree to consult on children's congenital heart services
16-Feb-2011
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Two performance notices given to Mid Essex trust
14-Feb-2011
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How optimised TJR pathways can improve services and offset financial pressures
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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Queen Victoria Hospital to invest in theatres
3-Feb-2011
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Media Watch: Cameron and Lansley spring into action
3 February 2011
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NHS Hertfordshire may ban surgery for smokers and the obese
2-Feb-2011
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General paediatric surgery - getting the delivery right
28-Jan-2011
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Oral surgery problems threaten South Warwickshire FT waiting times
25-Jan-2011
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'We all know what’s wrong with the NHS'
19-Jan-2011
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The health bill in the news
19-Jan-2011
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RCS warns on 'backdoor rationing' in NHS
17-Jan-2011
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Board warned over asbestos exposure risk
10-Jan-2011
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Operations cancelled to support flu treatment
7-Jan-2011
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Prostate cancer monitoring scanner developed
21-Dec-2010
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Danger consortia will overlook networked services
16-Dec-2010
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Clinicians put forward ideas on where to save £20bn
15-Dec-2010
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Latest Dr Foster guide reveals hospital trusts with high death rates
29-Nov-2010
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UK heart surgery survival best in Europe
25-Nov-2010
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GPs 'face patient revolt over reform plans'
22-Nov-2010
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Lancashire PCTs to review funding for 70 procedures
16-Nov-2010
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NHS Surrey stops funding for IVF and tattoo removal
15-Nov-2010
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NHS targets skew surgery management, doctors warn
12-Nov-2010
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Elderly miss out on post surgical care
11-Nov-2010
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The Mid Staffs inquiry and NHS redundancies
11 November 2010
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£750m spent by NHS on locum doctors
10-Nov-2010
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Report highlights out-of-date keyhole equipment
5-Nov-2010
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Organ transplants hit record high
5-Nov-2010
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Kent PCT to delay referrals in order to dodge overspend
4-Nov-2010
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'No problems' at cardiac unit, inquest told
28 October 2010
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Inquest into John Radcliffe baby death opens
27-Oct-2010
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Yorkshire PCT announces 'unpalatable' measures to tackle overspend
26-Oct-2010
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Caesarean rates 'vary widely' in UK
8-Oct-2010
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Bariatric surgery on the rise in Scotland
27-Sep-2010
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Call to reform surgical profession
24-Sep-2010
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Former BMA chair acted like 'caricature of surgical arrogance'
22-Sep-2010
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Woman wins court bid to have gastric bypass
22-Sep-2010
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Former BMA chairman to face disciplinary panel
20-Sep-2010
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Joint replacement patients in poorest ever health
16-Sep-2010
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Hundreds of patients face hip replacement recall
31-Aug-2010
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NHS faces 'overwhelming obesity burden'
27-Aug-2010
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QIPP challenges
Your Ideas and Suggestions 2010
