All Health Service Journal articles in 2007 – Page 22
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DoH responds to cross-border healthcare debate
The Department of Health has responded to a European Commission communication on cross-border healthcare.The response covers the 'increasing challenge in providing sustainable health services in the face of demographic ageing and globalisation'.Read the response here
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New faces at NHS London
Anthony Sumara has been appointed as turnaround director at NHS London. Mr Sumara will take up the post immediately while continuing as interim chief executive of Hillingdon primary care trust.NHS London has also appointed Paul Baumann as its director of finance and performance.Read more here
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Level of third sector involvement mapped
A survey of the involvement of the third sector in health and social care has found 35,000 third sector organisations currently provide services in England and a further 1,600 plan to do so in the next three to five years.Funding for these services amounts to £12bn a year, of which ...
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Scotland announces a £10m boost to local preventive care programmes
The Scottish executive has announced a £10m investment into preventive care programmes, to help improve local NHS services.The aim of the programme is to increase the rate of health improvement in deprived communities, by improving primary community services to deliver anticipatory care; identifying and targeting those at particular risk of ...
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Olympic committee appoints chief medic
The London Olympic organising committee has announced the appointment of Dr Richard Budgett as its chief medical officer.Dr Budgett stated: 'I am very excited about this role and honoured to be appointed to such a crucial post. London 2012 has been a wonderful stimulus for all types of health-related activity ...
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Final confirmation of avian flu virus strain
The Department for Environment, Food And Rural Affairs has made a final confirmation that the avian flu virus strain found in Suffolk is virtually identical to the virus found in Hungary.Deputy chief vet Fred Landeg confirmed that the laboratory analysis of the Suffolk and Hungary H5N1 avian influenza viruses is ...
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Doctors' union says the government must stop stalling on new contract
The British Medical Association is calling on the government to come clean on what has happened to contract proposals for staff and associate specialists, produced as a result of negotiations between the BMA and NHS Employers.Almost three months after the BMA and NHS Employers submitted the proposals, the government has ...
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Diagnostic test waiting times released
The Department of Health has released data that it claims will help in delivering the 18-week target.It states that the diagnostic test waiting times data for December 2006 shows the NHS's progress.The DoH states: 'The monthly data published gives the waiting times for 15 key diagnostic tests carried out in ...
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Burnham plans NHS 60th birthday celebrations
Plans to mark the 60th birthday of the NHS next year by formalising its core values in a written constitution are to be put to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown by Andy Burnham, the health minister responsible for NHS reform.Mr Burnham said the constitution could include 10 core principles that ...
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Progress on cancer reform strategy
National cancer director Professor Mike Richards has announced progress on the strategy for the reform of cancer services in England.In a letter to the NHS he said that work on the strategy was 'well in hand'. He cited opportunities in new technology and drugs to help people live longer and ...
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Commissions launch children's injury report
The Audit Commission and Healthcare Commission have today launched their Better Safe than Sorry: preventing unintentional injury to childrenreport.The report shows that each year there are approximately two million attendances by children at hospital accident and emergency departments as result of accidents that may ...
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PCTs failing to take sexual health seriously
Government initiatives to make sexual health a priority are not getting through to the frontline, according to a survey published today by sexual health charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.The findings show that Choosing Healthmoney intended for sexual health has been diverted elsewhere by almost ...
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Smoking 'police' given power to fine public
Thousands of council staff are being trained to police the smoking ban in bars, restaurants and shops in England.Ministers have given councils £29.5m to pay for staff, who will be able to give on-the-spot £50 fines to individuals and take court action against premises.They will have the power to enter ...
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A&E attendances down 1.2 per cent
Attendances at accident and emergency departments fell year on year by 1.2 per cent in the third quarter, but admissions through A&E rose by 2.4 per cent to more than 750,000.Figures from the Department of Health published today show that in the three months to the end of December 2006 ...
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Acute and PCT indicators extended
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Department of Health want to extend the current 13 quarterly Better Care, Better Value indicators for primary care trusts and acute trusts to 30 from the start of the next financial year.DoH commissioning director Duncan Selbie and NHS Institute chief executive ...
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Death rates warning for deprived areas
Death rates in deprived areas of Scotland are falling more slowly than in affluent areas, according to research from the Medical Research Council.Its analysis of death records between 1980 and 2002 shows that the age standardised mortality rate fell by 30 per cent for men and 25 per cent for ...
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Death rates warning for deprived areas
Death rates in deprived areas of Scotland are falling more slowly than in affluent areas, according to research from the Medical Research Council.Its analysis of death records between 1980 and 2002 shows that the age standardised mortality rate fell by 30 per cent for men and 25 per cent for ...
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Milton Keynes PCT names preferred bidder
Milton Keynes primary care trust has appointed Guildhouse as its preferred bidder to build health and care premises over the next 25 years, starting with the Wolverton Health Centre later this year.The 3,000sq m supersurgery will be part of the South East Midlands local improvement finance trust and will house ...
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DoH Publishes prescription charges consultation
The Department of Health has published a consultation document on changes to the NHS (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2005 to enable primary care trusts in England to charge chemists for NHS pharmaceutical applications.If chemists are not on a PCT list they cannot dispense NHS prescriptions or provide NHS pharmaceutical services. The ...
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Minister launches coding strategy
Health minister Lord Hunt has launched a strategy document on using auto identification data capture technologies.Coding for success - simple technology for safer patient care encourages the NHS and medical industry to use a standard coding system to help prevent medical error, increase efficiency and save money.Read the press release ...