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NewsRevealed: 10 potential MPs to watch in health
Three candidates with experience of NHS management feature in a top 10 list of potential MPs to watch in health after the election.
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NewsGone but not forgotten - the Labour health team
What people are saying about departing health ministers Ann Keen, Gillian Merron, Mike O’Brien and Phil Hope
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NewsHospital campaign MPs retain seats by small margin
Two Liberal Democrat MPs who fought a five year battle to preserve an emergency unit in south west London have been returned with majorities of around 2,000.
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NewsHealth minister Mike O'Brien loses seat to Conservatives
Health minister Mike O’Brien has lost his Warwickshire North seat to the Conservatives.
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NewsElection 2010: a candidate watchlist for the NHS
The incoming and outgoing MPs that matter to the health service
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NewsNorman Lamb interview: the Liberal Democrats' health policy priorities
If Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb once felt ignored by the health world, he is clearly now enjoying the limelight generated by talk of a hung parliament.
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CommentNoel Plumridge on the NHS budget
Here’s a summary of the financial plan for the English NHS.
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NewsLabour accused of failing to match Tory commitment
Health secretary Andy Burnham has been accused of failing to match the Tories’ commitment to a real-terms increase in the NHS budget every year in the next parliament.
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NewsONS records drop in healthcare productivity
Productivity in healthcare fell by 3.3 per cent between 1995 and 2008, according to new figures.
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NewsTrust 'named and shamed' over plans to cut beds
Health minister Mike O’Brien has carried out his threat to “name and shame” trusts that cut services and blame the economy - using a parliamentary debate to highlight the case of a trust planning 200 bed cuts.
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NewsBMA calls for NHS IT programme review
Doctors’ leaders have written to the government calling for parts of the NHS IT programme to be suspended.
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NewsPCTs preparing for cuts not savings, warn GPs
Senior GPs have claimed primary care trusts are feeling pressured to make budget cuts rather than find efficiency savings.
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News‘NHS tourism’ under review
Plans to deter “health tourists” from coming to England for NHS treatment have been outlined in a consultation launched by the Department of Health.
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NewsRoyal Surrey sold millions of pounds of NHS drugs in 'unacceptable' export trading
HSJ has uncovered the NHS hospital that sold millions of pounds’ worth of hospital drugs intended for NHS use onto the export market, despite government warnings the behaviour was “unacceptable”.
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NewsPCTs face out of hours contract renegotiation
Primary care trusts face having to renegotiate contracts for out of hours provision.
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NewsDH to expand integrated care pilots through 'good will'
The Department of Health is looking to expand its integrated care pilot scheme by “harnessing good will”.
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NewsOut of hours GP variations 'unacceptable'
An unacceptable variation exists between doctors’ out of hours services around the country, Mike O’Brien has admitted.
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NewsDH funds £20m pilot scheme for thalidomide survivors
The Department of Health is to fund a £20m pilot scheme to help meet the long term health needs of thalidomide survivors, health minister Mike O’Brien announced today.
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NewsPersonal health plans for injured soldiers
Improved NHS mental health services for soldiers returning from Afghanistan was one of the plans announced by the government in a bid to provide better care for war veterans.
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NewsCombat Stress charity in mental health trust tie-up
Staff from the Combat Stress charity are to work in NHS mental health trusts in a bid to improve treatment offered to traumatised soldiers, the government is expected to announce.