News – Page 1686
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NewsHealth board rapped over data loss
The data protection watchdog has criticised a health board in Scotland over two incidents in which patients’ medical records were lost.
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NewsPrescriptions rise but costs fall, NHS Information Centre data reveals
The number of prescriptions handed out to people suffering from allergies, diabetes and obesity increased in a year, although overall costs fell, new figures from the NHS Information Centre reveal.
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NewsNHS must improve drink plans - MPs
MPs have called on the Department of Health to do more to tackle the increasing level of alcohol misuse in England.
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NewsPCT rebranding still has a long way to go
Getting local people to understand the role of primary care trusts has proved difficult, so has the NHS rebranding helped? HSJ polled the public to find out
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NewsMonitor accuses DH of undermining FT independence
Foundation trusts and Monitor have warned that the details of the government’s plans to de-authorise foundations risk “undermining” the trusts and their regulator.
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NewsScreening shows increase in breast cancer rates
New figures have shown the number of cancers found through breast screening has risen by almost a third in the last five years.
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NewsEthnicity 'not a factor in primary care access'
There is no difference in the way ethnic minorities and their white counterparts access GP services in England or in the clinical outcomes of the care they receive, a study has found.
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NewsOlder women suffer from breast cancer inequality
Access to breast cancer treatment discriminates against older women, a report has claimed.
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NewsDH will probe how row over NHS targets led to bullying claims
The Department of Health is to launch an independent review into allegations of bullying and harassment against East Midlands strategic health authority.
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GPs want more than £700m for swine flu vaccine programme
GP leaders are negotiating for more than £700m in payments for giving people the swine flu vaccine, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCalls to suspend working time directive to cope with swine flu pressures
Campaigners have called on the government to suspend EU rules that limit doctors to working 48 hours a week in a bid to cope with the mounting pressure on the NHS caused by swine flu.
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News£25m apprenticeships boost for NHS
Strategic health authorities are to get a £25m boost to offer young people and others NHS apprenticeships.
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NewsPrivate patients 'have full NHS rights'
Private patients have full rights to NHS critical care treatment if required, according to a newly ratified protocol.
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NewsConservatives call for more Tamiflu collection points
The government should take urgent action to open more Tamiflu collection points, shadow health minister Stephen O’Brien has urged.
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NewsChallenge to psychiatric hospital smoking ban fails
An appeal against a High Court ruling that bans smoking in high security psychiatric hospitals has been rejected by law lords in London.
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NewsResigning trust chair calls for David Nicholson to investigate 'SHA pressure'
The chair of an acute trust has resigned, calling on NHS chief executive David Nicholson to investigate the behaviour of East Midlands strategic health authority in pressurising him to meet access targets.
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NewsUnison to spend £1m promoting worth of public services
A £1m campaign to promote public services has been launched by Unison.
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NewsHospital downgrade plan chief quits Oxford Radcliffe
The man whose plan to downgrade Horton General Hospital was thrown out by the government is quitting as Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals trust’s chief executive.
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NewsMinisters deny swine flu website was late starter
A claim that the new swine flu helpline and website should have been launched earlier has been dismissed by ministers.
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NewsStudent medics deployed with ambulance crews
Ambulance service bosses have stood by their decision to deploy trainee paramedics with ambulance crews in an attempt to deal with the extra weekend demand.