Unison legal challenge rejected
Unison has lost its bid to mount a legal challenge against the white paper ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS.’ The union’s attempt to secure a judicial review of the white paper was rejected by the High Court on Friday. Unison wanted to argue that the government had acted wrongly in failing to consult on […]
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NHS Wirral drops Lorenzo
NHS Wirral has dropped its planned implementation of Lorenzo Release 1.9 and is carrying out an option appraisal for an alternative system, E-Health Insider has learned.
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DH makes choice an obligation
GPs may be given a contractual obligation to offer choice and hospitals will be required to offer appointments to named consultant-led teams from April 2011 under government proposals set out today.
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DH issues ‘info revolution’ strategy
The Department of Health has launched a three month consultation on proposals to deliver an “information revolution” to users of the NHS.
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NIGB burns in bonfire of the quangos
A body set up to improve the way in which confidential patient data is handled has been scrapped by the government as part of its ‘bonfire of the quangos’.
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‘Save expertise’: NHS Confederation
Urgent action is needed to retain good staff working for primary care trusts and to preserve organisational memory as the latest set of NHS reforms are worked through, the NHS Confederation has told the government.
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Lansley faces opposition to white paper
Growing concerns about the government’s plans to overhaul the NHS have been presented to health secretary Andrew Lansley ahead of the Conservative Party’s health debate today.
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BMA: more risks than pros in white paper
The BMA has criticised the government’s plans to overhaul the NHS in England, saying they contain “much that would be potentially damaging” to the health service.
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White paper ‘could hit patient care’
A picture of little support for the latest NHS white paper emerges from a survey by EHI Primary Care.
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Survey reveals white paper job fears
More than 80% of staff working in strategic health authorities and primary care trusts in England expect to lose their jobs or are uncertain about the future, according to an exclusive poll by EHI Primary Care.
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