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NHS Alliance: Social enterprises are future of public health services

March 30, 2011
NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS reforms, Right to Request, public health services, social enterprise

The NHS Alliance has once more backed the idea that social enterprise should form the backbone of public health services …

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Lib Dems push for major amendments in Health Bill

March 14, 2011
Dr Even Harris, Health and Social Care Bill, Liberal Democrat health policy, NHS, NHS reforms

Liberal Democrats activists have rejected the government’s NHS reform programme, voting overwhelmingly in favour of a major amendment to the …

News

Finance a bigger worry than reform for NHS chiefs

March 9, 2011
Acute Trusts, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS finances, NHS reforms

NHS leaders are more concerned with how they are going to balance the books this year than with the reorganisation …

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Health secretary defends NHS reform to doctors

March 8, 2011
GP consortia, Health and Social Reform bill, NHS, NHS reforms

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has defended his reorganisation of the NHS to doctors, saying it will cut unnecessary levels of …

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Market forces won’t produce needed restructure, warns King’s Fund

March 4, 2011
GP consortia, Health and Social Care Bill, Kings Fund, NHS, NHS Commissioning Board, NHS reforms, foundation trusts, hospital trusts, king's fund

Greater competition in the NHS is unlikely to bring about the restructuring needed in hospital services, according to The King’s …

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NHS competition plans provide focus for dissent

March 3, 2011
Health and Social Care Bill, NHS, NHS reforms

Confusion and controversy surround the government plans to introduce greater levels of competition into the NHS, with many stakeholder groups …

Feature

Healthcare IT and patients: lessons from the NHS experience

February 28, 2011
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Healthcare IT, NHS, NHS IT, electronic patient records, online health information

Many countries are investing heavily in electronic health records and health information exchange to drive improvements in the quality of …

Feature

50,000 NHS jobs to be cut

February 24, 2011
False Economy, GPs, NHS, NHS reforms, TUC, nurses

NHS trusts are preparing to make a major series of job cuts as the health service wrestles with the need …

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Commissioning Board to spearhead NHS reforms

February 23, 2011
GP consortia, Health and Social Care Bill, NHS, NHS Commissioning Board, NHS reforms, PCT clusters, PCTs, SHAs, Sir David Nicholson, pathfinder consortia

NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson says the new NHS Commissioning Board will be the driving force behind the health …

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Bennett appointed chairman of Monitor

February 18, 2011
Sales and Marketing Monitor, NHS

Monitor, the body which will take on a powerful new role in regulating competition in the NHS, has a new …

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Alliance concerned over NHS competition reforms

February 10, 2011
Health and Social Care Bill, NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS reforms

The NHS Alliance has called on the Government to clarify major issues around the Health and Social Care Bill which …

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Pharma-NHS diabetes project begins

February 9, 2011
Sales and Marketing AstraZeneca, Lilly UK, MSD, NHS, Nottingham, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, joint working

A joint venture between the NHS, charities and the pharma sector has begun in Nottingham to help treat the city’s …

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Early diagnosis key to UK cancer ambition

February 8, 2011
Cancer, NHS, NICE

A series of quality standards on cancer care is to be drawn up by NICE as part of a new …

Feature

England isn’t the sick man of Europe

January 27, 2011
Kings Fund, NHS, NHS reform, king's fund

A leading health economist has questioned claims by the health secretary Andrew Lansley that England’s health is lagging behind other …

News

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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