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NewsNHS Tower Hamlets chair moves to Barts
Barts and the London Trust has appointed Stephen O’Brien as its new interim chair.
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NewsHospital staff strike over pay and conditions
More than 250 cleaners, porters and cooks have staged a 48-hour strike at an NHS trust in Devon over implementation of Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
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NewsDH appoints first clinical director for informatics
The Department of Health has appointed Charles Gutteridge as its first national clinical director for informatics.
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NewsCameron: 'Tories are the party of the NHS'
Conservative leader David Cameron has insisted the Tories are “the party of the NHS” and health service spending is safe only with them.
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NewsNHS Wales trials online GP service
The Welsh Assembly has announced plans for an online service that will allow patients in Wales to book appointments with their GPs and order repeat prescriptions.
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NewsPublic health at risk from TV product placement - BMA
Doctors’ leaders have become the latest in a series of groups to express concerns over plans for US-style product placement on UK television.
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NewsScheme supports patients leaving ICU
Patients leaving intensive care will be offered a new support scheme under a project being pioneered by the Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsConservatives to divert NHS resources to deprived areas
Tory leader David Cameron is to pledge to divert NHS resources to deprived areas at the launch of the Conservative manifesto today.
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NewsBasildon faces legionnaires' probe
Health chiefs are investigating a possible outbreak of legionnaires’ disease at a hospital that was recently under scrutiny for blood splattered equipment and an unusually high patient mortality rate.
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NewsNicola Sturgeon hails NHS capital expenditure
Scottish patients will benefit from health projects given the green light this year, health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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NewsDrinking 'an unsustainable burden on the NHS'
Britain’s growing culture of heavy drinking is placing an “unsustainable burden” on the healthcare system, costing the NHS £2.7bn a year, according to a report.
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NewsNorovirus halts surgery at hospitals
The winter vomiting bug norovirus has forced three hospitals in Cornwall to cancel all non-urgent surgical operations.
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NewsKnighthoods for top NHS leaders
NHS chief executive David Nicholson, cancer tsar Mike Richards, and NICE chief executive Andrew Dillon have been given knighthoods in the New Year’s honours list.
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NewsSearch for next Monitor chair to begin again in 2010
The post of Monitor chair is to be re-advertised next year, the Department of Health has said.
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NewsBasildon and Thurrock making progress on hygiene, says CQC
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital Foundation Trust has made an “encouraging start” to improving hygiene standards, inspectors have found.
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NewsEast of England reaches deal on swine flu vaccine
NHS East of England has become the latest strategic health authority to agree a regional deal with its GPs for delivering swine flu vaccine to the under fives.
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NewsDemand for veterans PTSD service on the rise
A groundbreaking pilot scheme for military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is to continue in the next year if it can secure long-term funding.
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NewsNHS Direct appoints permanent chair
The acting chair of NHS Direct has had her position made permanent after 20 months in the job.
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NewsCommissioners need to be ready for surge in population over 85
The number of 85 year olds will increase by a third by 2020, putting pressure on health and social services, researchers said today.