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    Mental health focus for humanitarian agencies

    2007-09-17T00:00:00Z

    New guidelines to address the mental health needs of survivors of conflict and disaster have been agreed.

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    Poor access costs businesses

    2007-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Rigid and inflexible GP services are costing workers and businesses millions of pounds every year, according to the Confederation of British Industry.Restricted opening hours, difficulty in booking forward appointments and the limited range of services on offer cost theUKeconomy an estimated£1bn and 3.5 million working days a year, it says.The ...

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    BMA coming back to table

    2007-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The British Medical Association’s GP committee looks set to come back to the negotiating table with NHS Employers. The two sides have met ahead of talks on the general medical services contract for 2008/09. The BMA pulled out of negotiations nine months ago and this year received a 0 per ...

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    BMA new deputy chair

    2007-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Dr Kate Bullen, an associate specialist anaesthetist from Bristol, has been elected as the deputy chairman of the British Medical Association’s council.She will take over immediately from Dr Sam Everington, who was deputy chairman of BMA Council from 2004 to 2007.In addition to being a member of BMA Council and ...

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    How pharmacists can help with PBC

    2007-09-17T00:00:00Z

    NHS Alliance and the Primary Care Pharmacists' Association have published a guide for practice-based commissioners and GPs, highlighting the contribution that pharmacists can make to patient care and practice budgets.PCPA chair Shailen Rao said: 'Primary Care Pharmacists are a valuable and as yet, largely untapped resource within practice based commissioning.'

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    Two million babies screened for hearing

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Two million babies inEnglandwill have had their hearing screened thanks to the NHS newborn hearing screening programme, the Department of Health has announced.The programme, which was rolled out across England in 2001, screens 1,700 babies each day.

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    Health workers accept improved pay offer

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Unison, which represents 450,000 NHS staff across theUK,said its members have voted two to one in favour of the revised pay deal.

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    Research proposals to get government cash

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Seven health research proposals are being funded by the Department of Health, as part of a new National Institute for Health Research funding programme called Research for Innovation, Speculation and Creativity.

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    PCTs attacked in MPs' report

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Too many primary care trusts are 'paying lip service' to a government programme intended to boost quality and safety after a string of high-profile scandals in the NHS, according to a report published by the cross-party public accounts committee.

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    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Funding will need to increase substantially to deliver the aspirations of the original review, even with improved productivity and self-management by patients of their health.The NHS will fall short in funding by£15.2bn,£9.2bn and£7.2bn by April 2011 depending on progress defined by Sir Derek as slow uptake, solid progress or fully ...

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    New public health director appointed

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Human Fertilisation and Embryology Agency chief executive Angela McNab has been appointed on a six-month secondment to the Department of Health as Director of Public Health Performance and Delivery.

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    Public expecting too much as spending cuts approach

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Local managers need more accountability and stronger support from politicians when making tough decisions, a think tank has claimed.

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    Trust escapes repayment of debts

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    A trust which was threatening to make hundreds of staff redundant has been told it need not pay back £20.7m historic debt - provided it manages its finances better.

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    'Outdated' IT systems raise MPs' concerns

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Hospitals have been forced to rely on increasingly outdated IT systems because of delays in implementing a major part of the national programme for IT, the Commons health select committee has warned.

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    Potential return to huge debt in three years' time

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    The man who laid the ground for the massive spending boost to the NHS has warned that the service could be up to £15.2bn short again in three years.

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    Wanless warns of spending 'hell'

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    The NHS faces a 'hell of a job' after failing to deliver major advances in productivity and public health, Sir Derek Wanless has told HSJ.

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    One year on, the message from Nicholson is that he's listening

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    NHS chief executive David Nicholson is in no doubt of the strength of staff's opposition to more change, or to their distaste for the idea of organisations competing against each other. Rebecca Evans quizzed him on what those staff can expect next

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    Bradshaw calls for action to fix primary care democratic deficit

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Health minister Ben Bradshaw has raised the prospect of a shake-up of local governance after he issued a warning that there is a 'problem' with primary care trusts' accountability to their patients.

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    Doctors in the dark over future of regulation

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Failing to set out a timetable for the future of health regulation will be a 'disaster' for the NHS, a senior doctor has warned.

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    Senior exodus as board seeks new status

    2007-09-13T00:00:00Z

    Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health trust has seen several senior staff leave ahead of a reorganisation of its executive board as it prepares for its application to become a foundation trust.