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NewsMonitor accuses DH of undermining FT independence
Foundation trusts and Monitor have warned that the details of the government’s plans to de-authorise foundations risk “undermining” the trusts and their regulator.
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NewsOlder women suffer from breast cancer inequality
Access to breast cancer treatment discriminates against older women, a report has claimed.
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NewsEthnicity 'not a factor in primary care access'
There is no difference in the way ethnic minorities and their white counterparts access GP services in England or in the clinical outcomes of the care they receive, a study has found.
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NewsScreening shows increase in breast cancer rates
New figures have shown the number of cancers found through breast screening has risen by almost a third in the last five years.
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News£25m apprenticeships boost for NHS
Strategic health authorities are to get a £25m boost to offer young people and others NHS apprenticeships.
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NewsConservatives call for more Tamiflu collection points
The government should take urgent action to open more Tamiflu collection points, shadow health minister Stephen O’Brien has urged.
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NewsPrivate patients 'have full NHS rights'
Private patients have full rights to NHS critical care treatment if required, according to a newly ratified protocol.
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NewsCalls to suspend working time directive to cope with swine flu pressures
Campaigners have called on the government to suspend EU rules that limit doctors to working 48 hours a week in a bid to cope with the mounting pressure on the NHS caused by swine flu.
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NewsResigning trust chair calls for David Nicholson to investigate 'SHA pressure'
The chair of an acute trust has resigned, calling on NHS chief executive David Nicholson to investigate the behaviour of East Midlands strategic health authority in pressurising him to meet access targets.
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NewsChallenge to psychiatric hospital smoking ban fails
An appeal against a High Court ruling that bans smoking in high security psychiatric hospitals has been rejected by law lords in London.
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NewsUnison to spend £1m promoting worth of public services
A £1m campaign to promote public services has been launched by Unison.
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NewsHospital downgrade plan chief quits Oxford Radcliffe
The man whose plan to downgrade Horton General Hospital was thrown out by the government is quitting as Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust’s chief executive.
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NewsMinisters deny swine flu website was late starter
A claim that the new swine flu helpline and website should have been launched earlier has been dismissed by ministers.
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NewsSainsbury's refuses to act as antiviral collection point
Primary care trusts will not be able to include any of Sainsbury’s 230 in-store pharmacies in their local plans to set up antiviral collection points.
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NewsFive NHS trusts receive warning over lost patient data
The loss of sensitive patient details by five NHS trusts has prompted a security warning from the the Information Commissioner’s Office.
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NewsNHS trust apologises over infection deaths
Health bosses at a hospital trust in Nottingham have apologised after a series of infections involving patients undergoing heart valve operations left three dead and five seriously ill.
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NewsTamiflu collection points set up
The antiviral drug Tamiflu has been made available from hundreds of collection points as swine flu continues to spread throughout the UK.
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NewsTrust apologises over death of baby
Nottingham University Hospitals trust has apologised over “shortcomings” after a baby died of a suspected salt overdose after being put on a saline drip.
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NewsStudent medics deployed with ambulance crews
Ambulance service bosses have stood by their decision to deploy trainee paramedics with ambulance crews in an attempt to deal with the extra weekend demand.
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NewsManagers quietly confident as NHS battles swine flu pandemic
Managers and staff are confident the NHS is coping successfully with swine flu, an HSJ and Nursing Times survey reveals.