Unison closer to review of white paper
Unison has won the right to take legal action against health secretary Andrew Lansley for what it alleges is a lack of public consultation on the NHS white paper. The union has been given permission to seek judicial review of the steps taken to implement ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS’. It sought permission to seek […]
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NHS Direct – number not service to go
Health secretary Andrew Lansley told reporters last week that NHS Direct would be replaced with a new 111 service, but the helpline says it is ‘business as usual’ and that only its 0845 number will be scrapped.
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Row brews over end of NHS Direct
The government has defended its decision to scrap NHS Direct and replace it with a new 111 number service.
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Unison takes white paper to High Court
The UK’s largest public service union has started legal action against health secretary Andrew Lansley, claiming that he has refused to properly consult the public on the white paper ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS.’ Unison has made a judicial review application to the High Court, on the grounds that the day after the white […]
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Birmingham Portal drives info sharing
Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership has selected Dotted Eyes’ Health Portal to enable information sharing with GPs and between NHS and local authority organisations. The partnership, an alliance between the city’s primary care trusts and council to tackle health inequalities and improve health outcomes, said the portal would help it to meet the demands of […]
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All trusts to be foundations by 2013
All NHS trusts will be obliged to become a foundation trust or merge with one by 2013, the Department of Health has announced. In the latest of a series of consultations putting flesh on the bones of the recent white paper, ‘Liberating the NHS’, the DH says it will “drive progress” towards foundation status for […]
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Information Centre wins in ALB review
The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that it will be put on a firmer statutory footing and given new responsibilities.
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GP consortia to start work this year
The Department of Health has spelled out its plans for the future of commissioning in a consultation that gives the NHS Commissioning Board a role in setting data and IT standards while predicting that a market will develop in commissioning support.
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Goals replace targets in DH paper
The Department of Health has set out its plans to scrap centrally, set performance managed targets – and to hold the NHS to account using ‘national outcome goals’.
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‘Large numbers’ of staff to lose jobs
The Department of Health’s informatics directorate is one of the few areas of the NHS that is safe from change for the moment, a letter from NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned.
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