News – Page 2004
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New skills for new era of nursing
Nurses will be expected to work more flexibly and gain increased 'entrepreneurial skills' under an NHS plan to modernise their careers.
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DHL secures NHS Logistics deal
The government has given the go-ahead to the controversial outsourcing of supply chain services to German parcel company DHL and US logistics firm Novation.
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Competition hots up for 2006 HSJ Awards
Primary care trusts in Croydon and Blackpool dominate the shortlist in this year's HSJ Awards, with seven nominations between them.
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Admin error blamed for children's services' poor rating
A poorly performing trust identified in a Healthcare Commission review of children's services last week blamed an administrative error for its low score.
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Call for more staff to meet intervention needs
Union Amicus has questioned how health visitors can take extra responsibilities to identify babies and young children at risk of future anti-social behaviour when they are facing job cuts and recruitment freezes.
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PCTs ahead on practice-based commissioning
Primary care trusts are ahead of schedule for universal coverage of practice-based commissioning, with 173 PCTs classified as introducing PBC at the end of July.
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Drive to increase Asian vitamin intake
Asian children should be given vitamin D from birth to two years to halt the re-emergence of a deficiency in the UK, according to doctors.
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Public split on treatment costs
One in three people believes the NHS should provide 'all drugs and treatments, no matter what the cost', while four out of 10 believe the NHS should provide the 'most effective treatment, no matter what the cost', according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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New NICE guidance on obesity
The latest work programme for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will include analysis on how to tackle growing obesity levels.
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Cancer patients' concern about choice
Patients offered choice of treatment without medical explanation of the options can feel shocked and abandoned by their doctors, according to a Cancer Research UK study.
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Clinicians launch community ENT to fend off independent giants
A group of 150 GPs, practice nurses and managers have set up a social enterprise venture in an attempt to protect NHS services from being 'picked off' by the independent sector.
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New service to combat lack of NHS dentists
A new dental access hotline has attracted 200 calls in its first week
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Chief joins exodus from Scottish health board
The chief executive of a troubled Scottish health board has quit, it was announced last week.
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Decision to shut walk-in mental health crisis centre referred to Hewitt
A proposal to close a south London walk-in emergency clinic for people with mental health problems has been referred to the health secretary by local councils.
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Sussex hospitals face loss of acute services
Up to five hospitals could be left without any acute surgery or medical facilities under proposals being considered by the NHS in West Sussex.
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Care heads for the high street as Blair courts retail kings
Tony Blair seems to have given his blessing to the expansion of companies like Boots into the healthcare market. As ideological rows about the involvement of the private sector hot up, Jennifer Trueland asks what the high street could offer the NHS.
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Tesco director named NHS human resources supremo
The personnel director of supermarket giant Tesco has been appointed as the new human resources director for the NHS.
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Exclusive: 14 private firms win place on choice menu in £200m deal
The Department of Health has signed a deal worth £200m with 14 independent healthcare companies to carry out thousands of additional elective care procedures, HSJhas learned.
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IT review confirms iSoft woes
Troubled software firm iSoft has announced massive losses and admitted it is in dispute with its partners.
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PCT leaders fail to secure chief exec posts in West Midlands
Just two of the chief executive jobs running eight new primary care trusts in the West Midlands, the former fiefdom of new NHS chief executive David Nicholson, have gone to incumbent chief executives.