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Darzi outlines draft NHS constitution
Lord Darzi today set out the seven principles that underlie the NHS - along with the rights and responsibilities that accompany them.
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Darzi turns up heat on clinical leadership and training
Health minister Lord Darzi has put clinical leadership at the centre of his next stage review.
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Personal assistants could be regulated, says social care council
The General Social Care Council is to consult on regulating personal assistants employed by people who use direct payments to pay for their care.
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Sexually transmitted infection rates soar in over 45s
Rates of sexually transmitted infections (except HIV) have doubled among people over 45 in less than a decade, research published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections has found.
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Welsh plan to promote healthcare volunteering
Plans to encourage more volunteers in healthcare have been launched by the Welsh Assembly.
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Darzi review due at 3.30pm
The next stage review of the NHS is due to be announced by health minister Lord Darzi and health secretary Alan Johnson at 3.30 this afternoon. See www.hsj.co.uk for breaking news on the review from 3.30.
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Lord Darzi to speak at HSJ conference
Lord Darzi will be the keynote speaker at HSJ's Implementing Our NHS, Our Future conference on 8 July. Go to www.hsj.co.uk/conferences to find out more and book your place.HSJ and hsj.co.uk will continue to bring you in-depth news on the key themes of Lord Darzi's review of the health service. ...
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Age discrimination guidance issued
Two literature reviews and two research studies on the costs and benefits of eliminating age discrimination in the provision of health and social care are now available.
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Monitor approves 100th foundation trust
Foundation trust regulator Monitor has announced the authorisation of the 100th foundation trust.
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Median waiting time now four weeks
More than nine in 10 people needing inpatient treatment in England are now treated in less than 13 weeks - with the median wait 4.3 weeks.
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Nine out of 10 patients treated within 18 weeks
The NHS is treating nine out of 10 patients within the 18-week referral to treatment deadline.
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Barts and London apologises to patients for delays
Barts and the London trust has apologised to 573 patients who had to wait an average of 34 weeks for their operations.An investigation by the trust found that one of its seven bookings teams was offering patients operations at short notice, against NHS rules that say 21 days' notice is ...
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Door slams shut on targets and opens on a world of outcomes
In the corridors of health policy there is now an unseemly rush to be the first through the door marked 'outcomes'.
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Acute's leftovers won't feed public health
At the NHS Confederation conference, Nuffield Trust director Jennifer Dixon offered the heretical view that the policy of tilting NHS spending towards public health is a mistake.
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New tool to assess patient involvement
The Social Care Institute for Excellence has developed an audit tool to help service providers assess how they involve people in the way they run services.
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Royal College sets out alternative to polyclinics
The Royal College of GPs has published its alternative model to polyclinics - primary care federations, in which groups of GP practices would work in partnership primarily in existing buildings to deliver better patient care.
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Councils should help with PCT management, says think tank
Local authorities should be given a more significant role in health and share more of their expertise with primary care trusts, according to think tank the New Local Government Network.
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Latest data on consultant and nurse pay
The NHS Information Centre has published estimates of annual basic pay and total earnings for NHS staff based on payments between January and March 2008.
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Heart surgery survival rates published
The Healthcare Commission has published updated heart surgery survival rates for 37 heart units in the UK.The figures show no unit has 'worse than expected' survival rates, 32 have 'as expected' rates and five 'better than expected'.
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National dementia plan to take on lack of leadership
The Department of Health is to address a 'lack of leadership' in the care of hospital patients with dementia in a consultation on England's first national strategy for the condition.