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    Providers criticise NHS Choices site

    2007-07-12T00:00:00Z

    The NHS Choices website is hampering users' ability to access the extended choice list, a network of independent providers has claimed.

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    NHS split over Darzi review's reach

    2007-07-12T00:00:00Z

    Managers and clinicians are split over whether a review of the NHS will result in major changes to policy.

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    Sir Ara sets out London vision for cradle-to-grave healthcare

    2007-07-12T00:00:00Z

    Junior health minister Professor Sir Ara Darzi has set out a radical vision of future healthcare provision in London that would see the end of hospitals in their current form.

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    Darzi's review shows who has the power in the new top team

    2007-07-12T00:00:00Z

    'Most ministers can be brought to heel by threat of the sack, but not one with a global reputation well beyond politics'

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    London review: everyday problems at heart of proposals

    2007-07-12T00:00:00Z

    'Darzi argues that his approach to this study - listening to Londoners, building a clinical consensus, providing evidence for the recommendations, working with the mayor and London boroughs - provides the foundations for success'

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    Report criticises regulatory impact assessments

    2007-07-11T00:00:00Z

    The National Audit Office has published a new report titled Evaluation of Regulatory Impact Assessments 2006-07.

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    Lib Dems call for IT review

    2007-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has called for a comprehensive review of the NHS IT system, after former NHS IT programme chief executive Richard Granger admitted that some of the work carried out by contractors had been 'appalling', according to IT magazine CIO.

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    Report reveals earnings of NHS staff

    2007-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Hospital consultants earn, on average, over four times more than nurses, according to estimates published today by the Information Centre for health and social care.

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    Darzi sets out vision for London

    2007-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Junior health minister Professor Sir Ara Darzi has set out a vision for future healthcare in London in his Framework for Action.

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    Brown to outline legislative plans

    2007-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Prime minister Gordon Brown will give a preview of his first legislative programme this afternoon, with a focus on housing, education and the NHS. In a break with tradition, Mr Brown is announcing in advance a large part of the Queen's speech, and he has promised a series of region-by-region ...

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    Scientists pinpoint bowel cancer gene

    2007-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Scientists funded by Cancer Research UK have identified a common genetic variant that can increase a person's risk of developing bowel cancer.

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    Six compete to lead GPs committee

    2007-07-10T00:00:00Z

    The candidates for the new chairman of the British Medical Association's GPs committee have been announced. They are: Dr Laurence Buckman, Dr John Canning, Dr Andrew Dearden, Dr Peter Holden, Dr Eric Rose and Dr Richard Vautrey.

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    Pay increase for Northern Ireland nurses

    2007-07-10T00:00:00Z

    Nurses in Northern Ireland will receive the full pay award as recommended by the independent pay review body.

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    Super surgeries to open in Greater Manchester

    2007-07-10T00:00:00Z

    As part of the wave of super surgeries opening under the local improvement finance trust initiative, two new primary healthcare facilities have been announced for Greater Manchester.

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    Nurses working alone risk assault

    2007-07-09T00:00:00Z

    More than one-third of nurses working alone have been assaulted or harassed in the last two years, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing.

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    First improvement notice in hygiene clampdown

    2007-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been put on an improvement notice by the Healthcare Commission for failing to comply with hygiene codes.

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    Northern Ireland tackles waiting times

    2007-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Targets to cut waiting times for services including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry and speech and language therapy have been launched in Northern Ireland.

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    Stroke consultation under way

    2007-07-09T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has launched a consultation on stroke services in order to develop a stroke strategy. It includes proposals on providing faster treatment for minor strokes, treating the earliest signs of strokes seriously and improving care and support when people leave hospital.

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    The MTAS failure is no ripple in a teacup

    2007-07-09T00:00:00Z

    The cuts in funding for junior doctors' pay and study leave were very bad management and smacked of panic measures when they were announced half-way through the financial year.

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    HSJ recognised at awards ceremony

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    HSJ's former news editor, Laura Donnelly, has won an award from the Medical Journalists Association for work she produced while at the magazine.