50,000 job losses identified across NHS
More than 50,000 NHS staff posts are due to be cut across the UK, according to a union-backed campaign against the cuts.
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Osborne tells NHS to support social care
The NHS will be expected to support social care as council budgets are slashed, Chancellor George Osborne announced this lunchtime.
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Public spending hit in grim Budget
Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that lower public spending will form the bulk of the government’s action to reduce Britain’s budget deficit.
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Government sets out £6 billion cuts
The government has been setting out where it will cut the first £6.2 billion from public spending this year. In a speech outside Parliament, Conservative Chancellor George Osborne and his Liberal Democrat deputy David Laws outlined the contribution that different government departments will be expected to make. The Department of Health was one of the departments left […]
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Osborne orders review of govt spending
The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has announced a review of all government spending commitments since New Year’s Day. Announcing a package of measures to “enhance fiscal credibility”, Osborne said that the Treasury had written to every secretary of state in Whitehall ordering them to “re-examine all spending approvals since 1 January this […]
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Tories to publish government contracts
David Cameron has announced that the Conservative Party would publish details of all government contracts for goods and services worth over £25,000, if it is elected. The Tory party leader made the announcement at the Technology Entertainment Design conference in California, via video link, where he told an audience that he would create a new […]
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£40m NPfIT legal bills revealed
Almost £40m has been paid to two law firms for legal and commercial support for the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Going live
1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ’09.
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Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare Professionals conference
Julie Tindale, NHS CFH national clinical lead for midwifery, and Barbara Stuttle, national clinical lead for nursing, outline their roles at the event.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 18.04.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 18 April 2008 featuring supplier news, acquisitions, events and awards. Supplier news Zebra patient wristbands proven MRSA-resistant Results of independent lab tests at Northland Laboratories in the US show Zebra’s patent-pending antimicrobial wristband coating effectively resists Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Type II, Type III and […]
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