News – Page 700
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NewsRichards: compassion 'alive and well' in NHS
Compassion in the NHS is “alive and well”, according to England’s chief inspector of hospitals.
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NewsHSJ Live: 06.01.14 Royal college condemns obesity surgery stand-off
The Royal College of Surgeons has condemned a stand-off between local and national commissioners over surgery for the morbidly obese, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsMPs warn on clinical trials results
Clinical trial results are being routinely withheld from doctors, which is undermining their ability to make informed decisions about how to treat patients, the Commons public accounts committee has warned.
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NewsCharge for A&E visits backed by third of GPs
A third of GPs believe patients should be charged for some accident and emergency department visits, while most think government changes will do nothing to alleviate current pressures, according to a poll for the Press Association.
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NewsHSJ Live: 03.01.14 Clinical trial results withheld from doctors
Reaction to the public accounts committee warning that drug manufacturers are only publishing half of completed trial results, plus the rest of the day’s news and comment.
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NewsUpdated: Full list of NHS recipients of honours
The chief executive of Salford Royal Foundation Trust has been awarded a knighthood in the new year’s honours list.
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NewsFox: NHS budget protection must end
Ringfenced funding for the NHS must end after the next general election, a senior Conservative has said.
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NewsEight hundred data breaches in Scotland over five years
There have been more than 800 incidents of data loss by health boards in the last five years, figures have revealed.
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HSJ Live: 02.01.14 Budget protection of NHS must end says top Tory
Ring-fenced NHS spending attacked by former shadow health secretary and the rest of today’s news
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George Eliot contenders announced
The five contenders through to the next stage of the competition to take over George Eliot Hospital Trust have been announced.
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NewsFTN chief criticises tariff and planning guidance
The chief executive of the Foundation Trust Network has said “growing financial pressures” on the NHS are preventing patients from receiving quality care.
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NewsNHS employees offered Circle shares
NHS employees working at hospitals run by the operator Circle are to be offered shares in the company for the first time as part of moves to change its governance structure.
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NewsFinancial implications imminent for east London reorganisation
The reorganisation of cancer and cardiac services in east London is taking shape with the financial implications set to be laid out at the end of this month.
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NewsExclusive: Medical students face new NHS entry exam
Medical students may be given a full licence to practise medicine as soon as they graduate. However, under new plans they would have to sit an additional exam to gain entry onto the foundation programme that allows them to work for the NHS.
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NewsNHS England would 'very rarely' close a GP practice
The deputy medical director of NHS England said it would only close a GP practice if it was “at the extremes of immediate public safety”.
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NewsCQC unveils community services inspection regime
The Care Quality Commission has outlined its new approach for inspecting community health services.
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News20 December issue of HSJ is ready to read on the app
This week’s issue of HSJ magazine is now available to read on our tablet app.Please note: if iPad users have been experiencing difficulties recently with the app we recommend you delete it from the homescreen and download the latest version from www.hsj.co.uk/tablet-appDownload the HSJ app for iPadDownload the HSJ app ...
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NewsMedicine addiction data 'needed'
GPs should start collecting anonymous data on patients they suspect or know to be hooked on prescription drugs, a group of MPs has found.
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NewsHSJ Live: 20.12.2013 NHS England would 'very rarely' close a GP practice
Deputy medical director of NHS England says it would close a GP practice only if it was “at the extremes of immediate public safety”, plus the rest of today’s news and comment.
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NewsThis winter will be worse than last, warn hospital chiefs
Hospital leaders predict this winter will be worse than the last and warn their health economies are not coping well already.