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NHS Alliance finds its own third way

February 24, 2010
NHS, NHS Alliance

The NHS Alliance has proposed a new business model for the NHS that would draw on the health service’s founding …

Plans for more home care on NHS could save billions

February 18, 2010
NHS, home care

The NHS is to provide more dialysis and chemotherapy at home as part of a government bid to move treatment …

BMA cartoon

BMA hits out at NHS commercialisation

February 15, 2010
BMA, NHS, private sector

The British Medical Association is urging the public to resist the role of private companies in the NHS. Its Look …

Obesity costs could hit £5bn by 2025

February 12, 2010
NHS, obesity

A new review of UK health services has come up with half a dozen ways in which the government should …

National clinical directors appointed

January 26, 2010
NHS, UK, appointment, dementia, elderly, liver disease

A trio of national clinical directors, whose areas of influence cover dementia, older people and liver disease, have been appointed …

NICE to revamp chronic heart failure guidance

January 18, 2010
NHS, NICE, chronic heart failure

NICE is moving to update its clinical guidance on the management of chronic heart failure in adults. Draft recommendations are …

Moyes fires parting shots at government

January 18, 2010
Monitor, NHS, foundation hospitals

The head of Monitor, the body charged with regulating the leading ‘foundation trust’ hospitals, has aired his views on the …

NICE dementia guidelines not being followed

January 15, 2010
NHS, NHS trusts, NICE, dementia

Few NHS trusts are following NICE’s 2006 guidelines on dementia, according central government auditor the National Audit Office. A NAO …

Tories plan public health drive

January 15, 2010
Conservatives, NHS, NHS funding, binge drinking, public health

The Department of Health would be renamed the Department of Public Health under a future Tory government, says shadow health …

World Class Commissioning: how to be partners in quality

January 14, 2010
Sales and Marketing NHS, NHS funding, commissioning, funding, healthcare, marketing

World Class Commissioning has been heralded as a critical mechanism to revolutionise healthcare services in the UK. Now two years …

More detail needed on Conservative NHS manifesto, says think tank

January 8, 2010
Conservatives, NHS, king's fund

The Conservative Party’s draft manifesto on the NHS has been given a cautious welcome by the King’s Fund, which says …

GP writing prescription

England moves forward on generic substitution

January 8, 2010
Sales and Marketing NHS, generics, substitution

The UK Department of Health has started a consultation on proposals that would allow generic medicines to be substituted for …

Charles Gutteridge

Charles Gutteridge appointed health informatics ‘tsar’

January 7, 2010
DH, NHS, UK, appointment, informatics

The Department of Health has appointed its first national clinical director for informatics. Charles Gutteridge has been medical director at …

Andrew-Dillon

NICE chief executive knighted in New Year’s honours

January 6, 2010
Andrew Dillon, NHS, NICE, UK, appointment

Andrew Dillon, chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), has been knighted in the 2010 …

GlaxoSmitKline's headquarters

GSK joins new NHS innovation initiative

December 22, 2009
BMW, BT, GSK, HIEC, NHS

GlaxoSmithKline, as well as less obvious names such as BMW and BT, are among the companies involved in the NHS’s …

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