Kings Fund Chief Executive Niall Dickson commented yesterday that the 2009 Budget must be a ‘wake up call for the NHS’, forcing it to improve efficiency before spending cuts of £2.3 billion are introduced in 2011. But as a consequence...
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TaxPayersAlliance on 23rd Apr 2009 (via taxpayersalliance.com)
The NHS advisory panel on competition has ruled that NHS hospitals should not bar their consultants from working for private providers of NHS care in their own time
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FT on 24th Sep 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Over 45000 NHS staff call in sick every day which is lowering standards of patient care according to the first national NHS Health and Wellbeing Review into staff habits.
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Telegraph on 19th Aug 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
THE Scottish Government will consider an NHS official's call for a pay cut for senior health workers, finance secretary John Swinney said yesterday.
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Scotsman on 18th Dec 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
The House of Lords science committee will say in a report that DNA testing has become more commonplace yet most of those in the NHS are only dimly aware of what is going on
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FT on 7th Jul 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Conservative Secretary of State for Health has let slip that the Coalition is to scrap NHS Direct for a cheaper service. The proposal is to replace 3,000 dedicated specialist nurses and health professionals with a cheap private call centre, with no access to a nurse. Private call centres with unqualified staff can never replace this excellent
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SocialistUnity on 30th Aug 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
LABOUR has called for a cap on compensation payouts from the NHS over medical blunders.
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Scotsman on 13th Sep 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Spending on NHS communications in Scotland should be used to recruit more nurses, Scottish Labour urges.
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BBCPolitics on 4th Jul 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
A committee of MPs has called for more transparency to ensure that the NHS achieves value for money from management consultants.
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ePolitix on 4th Jun 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
NHS IT - what can I say? Well in the light of today's Times headlines "Google or Microsoft could hold NHS patient records say Tories" quite a lot. The Times totally conflate minor and major objectives and call the entire...
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CentreRight on 6th Jul 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)