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Mixed picture on postcode prescribing

January 28, 2011
Sales and Marketing NHS reforms, PCTs, SHAs, postcode prescribing

There are high levels of variation between Strategic Health Authorities and Primacy Care Trusts in the uptake of new drugs, …

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NHS competition will prevent postcode lottery, says Lansley

January 25, 2011
NHS, NHS reforms, postcode prescribing

The government has pledged that value-based competition in the NHS will create “the very opposite of the postcode lottery”, following …

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Health Bill continues fast pace of NHS reform

January 20, 2011
Sales and Marketing GP consortia, NHS, NHS Commissioning Board, NHS reforms, NICE, QALY

The government has outlined its draft Health and Social Care Bill, making some minor concessions to critics but promising no …

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MPs hit out at NHS reforms

January 18, 2011
GP consortia, Health Select Committee, NHS, NHS reforms, PCTs

MPs have come out against the NHS White Paper, saying it has caused wide spread uncertainty at a time when …

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Top doctors believe PCTs should stay

January 17, 2011
BMA, NHS, NHS reforms, PCTs, Royal College of GP

Leading GPs have criticised the government’s wide-ranging NHS reforms, saying minor structural changes are all the health service needs. A …

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NHS faces its toughest ever year

January 5, 2011
BMA, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS White Paper, NHS reforms, clinical commissioning

Doctors leaders and healthcare managers have used their New Year messages to warn of hard times in 2011 for the …

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NICE’s public health role reduced

January 4, 2011
NHS, NHS reforms, NICE, public health, quality standards

NICE’s public health remit has been slimmed down as part of the government’s reforms with the removal of six areas …

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PCTs look to save millions with new cuts

December 23, 2010
Sales and Marketing GP consortia, NHS, NHS cuts, NHS reforms, PCTs, generic prescribing

The NHS in England is cutting back on so-called ‘low priority’ procedures and looking to increase generic prescribing in order …

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Liberating the NHS … whether it likes it or not

December 22, 2010
Sales and Marketing GP consortia, NHS, NHS board, NHS reforms, value-based pricing

When health secretary Andrew Lansley announced plans in July to abolish the management structure of England’s health service, and hand …

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Government pushes on with major NHS reforms

December 16, 2010
GP consortia, Health and Wellbeing Boards, NHS, NHS Commissioning Board, NHS Operating Framework, NHS reforms, PCTs

The government has set out a roadmap for its wide-ranging NHS reform plans that promises no let up in the …

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Reforms are a ‘risky business’ for the NHS

December 16, 2010
Civitas, GP commissioning, NHS, NHS reforms, PCTs

The government is taking a ‘big risk’ with NHS reforms that will hand GPs responsibility for commissioning services, according to …

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NHS cuts will push health service “to the limit”

December 14, 2010
Health Select Committee, King’s Fund, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS reforms, king's fund, social services

MPs have issued a stark warning on the impact of Government spending plans on the England’s health services, saying they …

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Valuing medicines and NHS reform – the ABPI view

December 10, 2010
Sales and Marketing ABPI, NHS reforms, Paul Catchpole, market access, value-based pricing

For those concerned with improving the value for money of medicines to the UK’s health service, the government’s White Paper …

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New public health body to ‘nudge’ people on healthy living

December 1, 2010
NHS reforms, Public Health England, alcohol, obesity, public health, smoking

Plans for a new organiation to oversee public health in England have been unveiled, which will ‘nudge’rather than nag people …

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