All National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) articles – Page 24
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Derbyshire consults on talking therapies service
STRUCTURE: Commissioners in Derbyshire have launched a consultation on plans to reconfigure mental health services in the county, which could involve shutting some services.
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NewsGPs could be influenced by pharma, King's Fund warns
GP prescribing could become commercially biased if clinical commissioning groups buy in support from drug companies, a report commissioned by the King’s Fund has warned.
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NewsMental health incentives could be removed
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s recommendation that financial incentives for GPs to support patients with depression should be axed has sparked concern from the mental health sector.
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CommentLocal services need the backup of national support
We’ve all gone local these days. The health secretary is handing power to GPs. NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson is giving a bigger say to patients.
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PCT rapped over skin cancer service standards
COMMERCIAL: A dermatology contract negotiated by a primary care trust did not meet National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence standards and left patients at greater risk of cancer, a report has concluded.
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NewsValue based pricing not 'feasible' by 2014
Concerns have been raised that the new “value based pricing” regime for medicines may not be ready in time to replace the existing system.
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NewsPublic health must be on managers' agenda, says Confed chief exec
Public health should be considered the “mainstream agenda” for NHS managers and not an “add on”, according to NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar.
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NewsNICE wants to produce guidance for health and wellbeing boards
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence would welcome the chance to help fill knowledge gaps for new health and wellbeing boards, according to one of its directors.
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NewsExclusive: speech and language therapy suffers drop in scope and quality of services
Speech and language therapists across the UK are reporting serious falls in the scope and quality of their services, as they sustain a “double whammy” of NHS and local authority cuts.
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CommentPower to the patients: promised improvements to patient choice need backing up
A change in what “choice” represents in policy has great potential for patients. Now that change needs to be backed with a firm will to implement it, writes Health Foundation chief executive Stephen Thornton.
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NewsNHS fracture care spend to hit £6bn
The cost of treating osteoporosis on the NHS will treble over the next 25 years unless steps are taken to improve diagnosis and treatment, experts say.
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NewsCalls for quicker ovarian cancer diagnosis
Earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer could save the lives of 500 women a year, campaigners say.
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NewsHip patient care 'epidemic' looming, warns institute
Health experts today called for better care in the NHS to deal with a potential “epidemic” of hip fractures in the coming decades.
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NewsTrusts missing NICE guidelines on stroke treatment
“Considerable variation” exists in the time taken to provide stroke prevention surgery, data from the Royal College of Physicians and the Vascular Society has shown.
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HSJ KnowledgeTackling public health inequalities: NHS BEN's fight against smoking
With smoking levels above average in Birmingham East and North, NHS BEN’s Fight Back campaign has aimed to remove inequalities and improve health and wellbeing in the area.
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NewsSenior medical figures criticise post-discharge care
Senior medical figures have attacked the quality of care for patients coming out of hospital following an operation.
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East London statin scheme shortlisted for NICE award
PERFORMANCE: An east London health initiative that has helped prevent 37 heart attacks and deaths in the area in the last year has been shortlisted for a National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Shared Learning Award.
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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals makes NICE award finals
PERFORMANCE: A service designed by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 NICE Shared Learning Awards.
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NICE shortlists Central Manchester University Hospitals for award
PERFORMANCE: The trust’s home haemodialysis team, which is based at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, has been shortlisted for a NICE Shared Learning Award.
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HSJ KnowledgeTools to help commissioners deal with disinvestment
Tough choices are facing many health organisations, but with the right tools those unwelcome decisions can be made in a more manageable way, write Iestyn Williams and colleagues from Birmingham University’s school of social policy.