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Service at Nuffield Hospitals gets 'better and better'
I note with interest the views of Michael White.and his 'Whitehall chum' on the competitive merits of Nuffield Hospitals and others, who have apparently been 'found wanting' in the process of market reform.
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Lessons from history
'I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising'
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Noel Plumridge on payment by results
I'm sorry, local currency and price is not payment by results in. a meaningful sense
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Datamonitor: steady progress for acute productivity
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has published the Q3 2006-07 Better Care, Better Value indicators. As the indicators have been published for the first time on the basis of the 152 new primary care trusts (previous quarters reported on the 303 PCTs that existed until Q2 end) the ...
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Data Briefing - John Appleby on climate change and health
The Department of Health and the Health Protection Agency have recently published an update to their seminal 2002 report Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK.
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Michael White on politics
Sunday night is usually quietly un-newsy and health politics is no exception. But not last Sunday night, when it emerged that British Medical Association chair James Johnson had fallen on his scalpel over the medical fiasco.
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Interim chair named for 'perilous' Yorkshire trust
An embattled Yorkshire trust has appointed an interim chair after its former chair was sacked and two directors resigned in December.
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PBC guidance for boards
The Audit Commission has for the first time told primary care trust board members how they can help ensure that practice-based commissioning is a success.
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Mixed picture on PBC uptake
More than 40 per cent of GP practices have begun to adopt practice-based commissioning, according to government figures published today.
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BMA urges members to petition on slow PBC implementation
Primary care trusts that are not implementing practice-based commissioning can expect to receive a letter from GPs asking them to take action.
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Hewitt prioritises PBC after GPs and managers dismiss impact
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has promised that support for practice-based commissioning will be an 'absolute priority' for the NHS over the next year.
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Simon Stevens on the great pbc debate
PBC is desirable but sadly not workable as a universal mechanism. It wasn't in the 1990s, and it isn't now
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Survey examines value for money
While expenditure on drugs, NHS staff, salaries and training may have risen, the additional £6bn per year being spent on healthcare is unlikely to transform the health service, according to a survey commissioned by the Health Foundation.Lead researcher Peter Smith said: 'We confirmed that although the volume of NHS activity ...
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Counterfeit condom warning
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has issued a warning that counterfeit condoms have been found in Essex, Birmingham and in Felixstowe docks and placed on the UK market.Counterfeit condoms may not be manufactured to the appropriate British or European standards, and cannot be considered to provide adequate protection ...
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DoH to name preferred bidders for diagnostic scans
The Department of Health is set to announce that it has reached preferred bidder stage on two contracts to provide NHS patients with 90 million PET/CT diagnostic scans over the next five years.Alliance Medical is preferred bidder for a contract which will cover the North of England and will provide ...
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Independent providers opened up to public scrutiny
The Healthcare Commission has launched a new web service that provides patients and the public with information about performance in independent acute hospitals, mental health units and independent sector treatment centres.Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker, said: 'We want to make sure that patients have access to information about the ...
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Scottish patients urged to get a flu vaccination
Scottish doctors have urged patients who are eligible but have not yet received the winter flu vaccination to contact their GP practice.Uptake rates for November are lower than ever before with just over half of Scots aged 65 or over receiving their vaccination.Only about a quarter of patients in the ...
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Five portions a day is not keeping obesity at bay
An annual study published by the Information Centre for health and social care indicates that more people in England are eating the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.However one in five adults remain obese, the Health Survey for England 2005 reports.Reported daily consumption of five or more ...
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Drinks industry a key partner in alcohol problem prevention
A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that the drinks industry agrees with the government's alcohol strategy for England which identified the industry as a key partner in preventing alcohol problems and reducing levels of harm.The study found that the drinks industry acknowledged problems associated with the misuse ...
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More baby research funds demanded
Babies' lives are being jeopardised by a lack of funding for looking at the cause of premature birth, according to charity Action Medical Research.The charity said £3.7m - just 0.3 per cent of the total research budget - was spent on research in this subject during 2004-05.Around 43,000 babies are ...