All Acute care articles – Page 486
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Pioneer diagnostics and treatement centre to shut its doors
One of the first-wave diagnostic and treatment centres set up to cut orthopaedic waiting lists has closed due to a lack of patients.
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BMA warning on research cuts
The British Medical Association has expressed serious concern that a Treasury-driven shake-up of medical research could lead to a £300m drop in research funding.
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News analysis: The kids are alright, but are they ready to be governors?
Young people should be allowed to act as governors, argue children's trusts, with some suggesting children as young as 10 could have a useful input. But foundation trust regulator Monitor disagrees. Kaye McIntosh examines the arguments
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Exclusive: Monitor says spending cuts could slow 18-week progress
The independent foundation trust regulator has warned that progress towards the 18-week target could be slowed down by primary care trusts attempting to cut spending.
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Exclusive: 14 private firms win place on choice menu in £200m deal
The Department of Health has signed a deal worth £200m with 14 independent healthcare companies to carry out thousands of additional elective care procedures, HSJhas learned.
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Hilary Thomas on clinical management
'My unwanted effects present a long, weary list of moans. These demonstrate just how much my uncomplaining patients have been through'
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Comment: Responsibility and beliefs key to next stage of choice
'The government believes the 'where' of care resonates with the public at least as much as the 'how?'.'
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Waiting time figures for May and June
The Department of Health has published monthly waiting-time statistics covering May and June of this year for 15 procedures including MRI and CT scans, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, cardiology and audiology.
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IT programme at 'risk' due to i-Soft problems, says review
A review of one of the key software products being developed for the national IT programme has warned that it is not only delayed but presents a 'significant risk' of not meeting requirements.
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Doctors not ready to cope with major incidents
Doctors are not prepared for major incidents, according to the results of a survey by a team from Wycombe Hospital in Buckinghamshire.
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New DoH panel for COPD
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has unveiled a panel of 19 experts to help shape improved standards and greater choice for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Don't let NHS get 'hamstrung' by choice, warns Nigel Edwards
The success or failure of policies on choice will be difficult to measure if they are allowed to fragment, warned NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards.
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DoH warning over childbirth target
The NHS could miss its target to expand choice in childbirth, the chair of the Department of Health's choice reference group has warned.
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Walk-in centres have little effect on inequalities, says report
NHS walk-in centres are having little impact on unequal access to primary care services, with the majority of users being affluent, young and/or white, according to a survey of global evidence and research.
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Anger over NICE colon cancer drug verdict
Charities have reacted angrily to the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence not to recommend the use of two colon cancer drugs.
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Government consults ahead of new choice framework
The Department of Health has vowed to involve 'as many people as possible' in a national listening exercise about how to expand choice beyond elective care.
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Warning on Agenda for Change
Health minister Lord Warner has written to all senior managers in the NHS expressing concerns at the slow progress of ensuring contract staff in catering, cleaning and ancillary services are on contracts that give them parity with Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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Reid loses A&E row in Scotland
Former health secretary John Reid's local hospital is to lose its accident and emergency department under a £300m reorganisation of health services in Lanarkshire.
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Six new hospitals approved in £1.5bn PFI spree
The government has approved six NHS private finance initiative hospital developments worth almost £1.5bn.
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Cancer networks should coordinate commissioning, say charities
A coalition of 29 cancer charities has produced a consultation green paper urging the government to create a new national cancer plan.