All News articles – Page 738
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NewsNHS Direct wins Australian contract
NHS Direct has won its first contract outside the UK after securing a deal which will see its online health and symptom checkers used in Australia.
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NewsBlood products company sold to US firm
Private equity firm Bain Capital has bought a majority stake in the government-owned blood products company Plasma Resources UK.
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NewsLabour's 'whole person care' commission seeks input from service
The independent commission created by Labour to make recommendations for delivering “whole person care” has begun an open consultation.
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NewsHSJ Live: 19.7.2013: NHS England issues end of life care guidance
NHS England sets out how trusts should treat patients who are dying following the announcement that the Liverpool Care Pathway is to be scrapped.
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NewsCQC appoints social care chief inspector
The Care Quality Commission has announced the appointment of its first chief inspector for social care.
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NewsBaumann: NHS needs 'heroic' savings to pay for integration fund
Government plans to create a £3.8bn pooled fund for health and social care commissioning will take the level of savings needed by the health service in 2015-16 to at least 6 or 7 per cent, NHS England’s chief financial officer has warned.
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NewsCare cap 'to spark huge rise in demand'
More than 50,000 extra people could demand social care assessments from councils in 2016 when a £72,000 cap on care costs is introduced, according to Department of Health figures.
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NewsCall to reshape primary health care
Increasing numbers of GPs are building organisations that are capable of preserving the personal, local nature of general practice while also offering patients and communities a greater range of services, a review has said.
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NewsNHS emergency care 'unsustainable'
NHS emergency care is “unsustainable”, leading doctors have said.
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NewsHSJ's most inspirational women in healthcare revealed
HSJ has published its first ever celebration of healthcare’s most inspirational female leaders.
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NewsHSJ Live 18.07.2013: Most inspirational women in health revealed
HSJ’s 50 Most Inspirational Women list, financial cost of the Francis Inquiry plus the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsExclusive: GMC reveals 16 A&Es with concerns
HSJ can reveal the names of 16 emergency departments about which the General Medical Council has current significant concerns.
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Exclusive: Trainee doctors to be withdrawn from DGH
Trainee doctors are to be withdrawn from the paediatrics department of a district general hospital, HSJ has learned.
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NewsWomen still in the minority in NHS leadership roles
Women are still massively underrepresented in senior leadership positions in the NHS, a major analysis by HSJ has found.
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NewsTrust by trust: the Keogh review lays down verdict
HSJ’s news team summarises Sir Bruce’s findings
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NewsCall for reforms on EU patient costs
Hospitals should be given greater incentives to recoup the cost of treating EU nationals, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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NewsHSJ Live 17.7.2013: Reaction to Keogh mortality review
Reactions to Keogh review and the rest of today’s news and comment
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NewsChief inspector plans 'small army' to target hospitals
Eighteen acute NHS trusts are to be inspected by the CQC in the first wave of inspections under the chief inspector of hospitals.
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NewsHospitals to get new 'avoidable deaths' measure
NHS England is working to devise a new national indicator intended to finally resolve the confusion over what constitutes an avoidable death in hospital, it has been revealed.
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NewsKeogh review exposes fears over NHS staffing levels
The NHS has little idea whether staffing levels at English hospitals are safe, Keogh review panel members have admitted.