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Tackle child cancer head on, government urged
Children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent has called on the government to use its cancer plan to tackle cancer in children and young people.
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Adults eating too little oily fish, survey says
Less than one-third of UK adults eat at least one portion of oily fish a week, according to a YouGov poll carried out for fish company John West.
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'I love the NHS' event draws 7,000 marchers
Around 7,000 people are thought to have attended an 'I love the NHS' march in central London this weekend.
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HSJ Knowledge
Ofcare - a break with the past or business as usual?
The recent announcements by the prime minister and the health secretary that there is to be a crackdown on hospital-acquired infections must be good news for patients and healthcare professionals. A new regulator is promised, with tough powers of inspection, investigation and intervention, backed by fines, where hygiene standards are ...
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PAs allow senior nurses to focus on patient care
Heart of England foundation trust recently piloted the role of senior nurse personal assistant. Since the introduction of four PAs a year ago, there have been demonstrable benefits. Karen Bowley explains
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Pay award should not exceed 2 per cent, says NHS Employers
NHS Employers has advised the pay review bodies that next year's pay award for doctors, dentists and other healthcare staff should not place undue cost pressures on NHS trusts.
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New best practice tool for nurses
A new set of benchmarks that aims to help nurses and other health and social care staff improve the care environment has been launched by chief nursing officer Christine Beasley.
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Extra £23m for primary care premises in Scotland
Health boards across Scotland are tobenefit from an extra £23m to improve and modernise primary care premises, Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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New hospital for Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells
Health secretary Alan Johnson announced yesterday that a preferred bidder had been appointed to build a new £228m hospital at infection-hit Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals trust.
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Modernising nursing careers consultation launched
Nurses and health practitioners have been invited by health secretary Alan Johnson to share their views on their career development.Speaking at the annual Chief Nursing Officer's Conference yesterday, Mr Johnson launched a formal consultation to look at a new structure for nurses' careers.
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Comment
Emma Dent on getting recognition
Everyone, even health policy journalists, needs little rewards to brighten up the working day. I am always really quite chuffed when a reader rings, e-mails or stops me in the street to tell me they enjoyed one of my features - or even one of these columns.
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Four out of five prison mental health teams are falling short
Less than a fifth of mental health inreach prison teams feel they are meeting the needs of inmates, five years after they were established, according to a hard-hitting report.
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Deficit crisis warning over Scotland's PFI expansion
Plans to more than quadruple the size of NHS Scotland's private finance initiative programme risk creating a deficit crisis akin to that in England, researchers have warned.
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Teen cervical jab a logistical 'challenge'
The roll-out of the vaccine to guard against cervical cancer poses a 'big logistical challenge' to primary care trusts, according to the Department of Health immunisation director.
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IT programme: pioneer sites of summary care records named
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that more than 50,000 summary care records have now been uploaded to the 'spine' that underpins the NHS care records service.
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Darzi blames poor leaders for hospital infection outbreaks
Minimising hospital-acquired infections should be the responsibility of managers, junior health minister Lord Darzi has told the Commons health select committee.
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In this week's HSJ
NewsThe government has admitted it does not know how it will decide which areas need extra GP provision, almost two years after it first pledged to help under-doctored areas.Cancellations of diagnostic contracts with the independent sector could damage confidence in future deals, investors have warned. Graham Kendall, acting general manager ...
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HSJ Knowledge
HSJ commissioning supplement: an in-depth look at FESC
The Framework for procuring External Support for Commissioners has finally arrived. Launched by the Department of Health at the start of last month after several delays, the government hopes that the framework will usher in a change in the shape and strength of commissioning in the NHS.
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Overseas workers are getting a raw deal
The Local Government Association's report on the impact of migration presents a powerful case for more funding of public services in areas experiencing the sharpest increases in demand.
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Dropping diagnostic deals could scare away investors
Cancellations of diagnostic contracts with the independent sector could damage confidence in future deals, investors have warned.