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Wales proposes simplified compensation rules
The Welsh Assembly has launched proposals to give NHS patients more equal access to compensation and allow clinical negligence claims to be settled more easily. The NHS Redress Measure will allow lower-value negligence claims to be dealt with without going before a court. It is the first government-proposed measure to ...
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Johnson makes first ministerial visit
Health secretary Alan Johnson and prime minister Gordon Brown have made their first visit to an NHS facility. The pair visited Kingston Hospital in south London with Professor Sir Ara Darzi.
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Legal briefing: of mice and men (and babies)
The draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill aims to update the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990, which deals with issues surrounding fertility, IVF and embryo research. Ben Troke explains
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Andrew Jones on getting the NHS recipe right
'We have a centrally run, demand-driven, hospital-orientated system for an ageing, consumer society with untreated long-term conditions. This recipe will be unsustainable.if the 2007-08 spending round produces a big squeeze'
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Sir Ara joins Johnson at Department of Health
Professor Sir Ara Darzi has been appointed parliamentary under-secretary at the Department of Health. Prime minister Gordon Brown has listed Sir Ara as one of the new faces designed to bring in talent from outside government.
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NHS Alliance calls for more 'H factor'
The NHS should invest more in the human 'H factor' and push for more personalised services, NHS Alliance chair Dr Michael Dixon has said today.
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Lib Dems launch campaign to save NHS
The Liberal Democrats have launched a campaign to save the NHS by stopping funding cuts, cutting waste and giving people more say in their local services.
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Alan Johnson named as new health secretary
Prime minister Gordon Brown has appointed Alan Johnson as next health secretary. With the NHS declared as Mr Brown's top priority, Mr Johnson's appointment was expected to be among the first of the new cabinet. The first cabinet meeting is due to take place this afternoon.
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Black chief executives in single figures, report reveals
NHS staff from black and minority ethnic groups are under-represented at senior levels, a workforce survey has revealed.
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Selling estate could make trusts more flexible
Hospital and primary care trusts could overcome some of the obstacles of payment by results and private finance initiatives by selling their estate, a report from the Social Market Foundation says.
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Nicholson slams medics over attacks
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has rubbished claims that the financial performance of the NHS was a 'tragedy' or a 'farce' as 'factually incorrect'.
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Cameron pledges end to politically driven targets
Conservative leader David Cameron has pledged that a Conservative government would increase spending on the NHS and scrap 'politically driven central targets'. And he promised it would not push through further reorganisations.
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Controversial and divisive: Whitehall's own Big Brother
Some say the Department of Health's commercial directorate employs questionable methods, while others eulogise over its success in getting best value for patients. As a new chief executive takes over, Daloni Carlisle examines the controversies to date
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£35m ISTC deal scrapped
The Department of Health has pulled the plug on one of the biggest wave-two independent sector treatment centre schemes. And there are rumours that more cancellations are on the way, with the entire surgical component at risk.
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Exclusive interview: David vs the Goliaths of bossy government
He wants the NHS freed from political control, he would not have voted for the smoking ban and he thinks Patricia Hewitt is the worst health secretary ever. Conservative leader David Cameron opens up to HSJ
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Frank message in Whitehall report card: must try harder
'That three people signed off the DoH's response to a report highlighting poor leadership has caused much merriment in Whitehall'
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Pandering to protests won't find answers
'The system Mr Cameron is proposing would produce a health service reflecting local wants, not needs'
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Nicholson: let local managers drive health service reforms
The NHS chief executive's advice to any incoming health secretary is to steer clear of further structural upheaval and allow managers to drive reform locally.