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Diabetes audit reveals thousands of errors in one week
Medication errors occur in the treatment of 3,700 inpatients with diabetes in hospitals in England and Wales each week, according to the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit.
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NewsCCGs choose in-house commissioning support ahead of outsourced services
Clinical commissioning groups are opting to host support functions in-house rather than outsource to “unproven” commissioning support services.
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NewsMiliband: attacks on nursing are 'totally unfair'
Attacking the nursing profession over isolated examples of bad practice “is totally unfair”, Labour leader Ed Miliband has told HSJ’s sister title.
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NewsCare bill to follow 'soon after' white paper
Document to include Law Commission recommendations and ‘market oversight’ measures
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NewsDrug costs 'have to be secret' under new pricing system
Drug prices agreed under the government’s proposed new pricing system would have to remain secret if drug companies are to buy into it, a senior figure in the pharmaceutical industry has warned.
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News'Concern' over pledge to give patients access to GP records
One of the leading figures in health information has cast doubt on the government’s ability to give all patients online access to their GP record by 2015.
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NewsDoctors voting on pensions strike action
Doctors across the UK have begun voting on whether to take industrial action for the first time in more than three decades.
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NewsSchools could have health and wellbeing board role - Lansley
The health secretary has hinted that he would welcome the inclusion of schools among those represented on health and wellbeing boards.
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NewsEd Miliband calls on local wellbeing boards to 'defend NHS'
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called on health and wellbeing boards to “defend the NHS” from privatisation and increasing competition.
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NewsDH promises 'openness and respect' in bid to reach outside groups
The Department of Health’s top priorities for the coming year include improving links with outside groups, partly as a response to concerns about failure to communicate the NHS reforms.
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NewsMiliband to attack government handling of the NHS
Labour leader Ed Miliband will today accuse the government of acting like “the masters, not the servants” of the NHS.
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NewsMPs warn over medicine shortages
Patients are suffering because of a shortage of some NHS prescription medicines, a parliamentary group has warned.
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NewsPiP scandal: Lessons must be learned says Lord Howe
A review of the PiP breast implant scandal has concluded “serious lessons” must be learned and improvements made by the medicines and healthcare products regulator.
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NewsConcern over board FT meetings held in private
Only two out of the five acute foundation trusts which hold board meetings in private in the East of England have changed their policies, nearly a year being told to do so by the health secretary.
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Mike Rawlins: NICE drug judgements can be improved
Judgements on which drugs should be paid for by the NHS can be improved, the chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said.
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NewsRecord low in post-50 cancer deaths achieved
The number of people in their 50s dying prematurely from cancer in the UK has reached a record low, new figures have revealed.
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NewsRCN chief 'fears' for commissioners negotiating with private sector
NHS commissioners will be “taken to the cleaners” by private sector providers, the head of the Royal College of Nursing has claimed.
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NewsLansley faces nurses' cuts and pensions complaints
The health secretary fought to rebut complaints about service cuts and damage to pensions in his speech to the Royal College of Nursing annual congress.
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NewsThree commissioning support services fail key test
Three out of 26 commissioning support service plans have been scrapped and a further nine have been identified as needing “rigorous management”, the NHS Commissioning Board has announced this morning.
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NewsRCN warns of treatment in corridors and long trolley waits
Patients are being routinely left on trolleys for hours and treated in corridors and other inappropriate areas, the Royal College of Nursing has warned in the wake of new survey results.