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NHS could save £2.2bn by tackling inefficiency
The NHS could save up to £2.2bn if trusts take steps to address wide variations in productivity and efficiency.The Department of Health has published its Better care, better valueindicators, which show trust-by-trust performance against a range of measures.Reducing unnecessary admissions could unlock £348m, and ...
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New head of policy at ASH
Asthma UK policy and campaigns director Martin Dockrell has been appointed as the new head of policy at pressure group Action on Smoking and Health. Mr Dockrell was an AIDS activist in the 1980s and 1990s. For the last five years he has worked closely ...
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Improving outcomes for wheelchair users
Out and About: wheelchairs as part of a whole systems approach to independencehas been published by the Department of Health. The document provides a view of the current state of wheelchair provision and makes recommendations on how the NHS working with partners can improve outcomes ...
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Response to NHS charges report
The Department of Health has published its response to July's Commons health select committee report on NHS charging. The response covers charges levied on patients and families for prescription dental charges, sight tests, additional charges for some clinical services, assistance with transport costs and charges ...
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Wanless warning: future of NHS hangs on obesity action
The government has failed to tackle obesity - and unless it does so, the future of the NHS hangs in the balance, says the man who persuaded ministers to pump record sums into the service.
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'Unbundling' options promised soon
Ministers are to review financial incentives to encourage the NHS to rehabilitate older people in the community, rather than acute settings.
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Nicholson calls for 'headroom'
Creating 'financial headroom' this fiscal year is essential in coping with the risk of increased costs as healthcare shifts from hospitals to primary care, NHS chief executive David Nicholson told a Downing Street press conference on Tuesday.
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NHS chief sets out surplus expectations
The NHS is aiming for a surplus of 0.5 per cent by 2008-09, David Nicholson told the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
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Dignity nurse plan scrapped
Plans for hospitals to appoint a 'dignity nurse' have been dropped after the proposal was 'misinterpreted'.
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Lansley: at-risk hospitals 'better off as charities'
Many community hospitals at risk of closure 'would be better off with charitable status' than remaining in the NHS, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
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NICE insiders criticise Alzheimer's drug decision
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has been criticised by its own senior advisers for not listening to experts when deciding to limit the use of the only drugs available in the UK for Alzheimer's disease.
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DoH pledges support teams
The Department of Health is to create a national support team to help primary care trusts and local authorities tackle public health.
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NHS Employers: far fewer job cuts than first claimed
The threat hanging over 20,000 NHS posts has amounted to fewer than 800 redundancies so far, NHS Employers has claimed.
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South West chief execs move in
As senior appointments for the newly reconfigured PCTs continue to take shape, HSJbrings you the latest recruits in the South West
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Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald on GPs and commissioning
'Strategic health authorities and GPs must represent the best interests of the citizen and patient... However, they face some pretty daunting challenges'
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Commission says sorry for PCT score mistakes
The Healthcare Commission has apologised for sending 62 primary care trusts the wrong ratings last week. The commission was alerted to the errors by PCTs, which were given their individual scores on Tuesday, ahead of the official launch of figures for all of England on Thursday.
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Child visitors face ban
A hospital trust has drawn up contingency plans to severely restrict child visitors if patients are at risk from diarrhoea and vomiting bugs.
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Nicholson: mixed reviews but the right idea
Six weeks into the job, NHS chief executive David Nicholson has had a few days in which he will have felt the full force of the pressure he must withstand in his role at the centre of the increasingly heated debate about the future of the NHS.
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Food still leaves bad taste in patients' mouths
Almost half of hospital patients supplement their hospital food with offerings brought in by visitors, the biggest survey of its kind has revealed.
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Michael White on politics
Tony Blair on the Prime Ministers Question Time and the Health Care Commissions annual rating