Lansley: no reprieve for PCTs
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has said there will be no reprieve for primary care trusts and strategic health authorities following the consultation on his white paper, and that he will be looking for pathfinder commissioning groups this year.
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Revolting people
Lyn Whitfield takes a first look at the consultation on a new information strategy for the NHS; which the government wants to bring about an ‘information revolution’.
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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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DH tenders for QMAS replacement
The Department of Health has published a tender for a GP Payments Calculation Service to calculate payments for the Quality and Outcomes Framework and payments to GPs for the performance of commissioning consortia.
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Virgin network for Norfolk
NHS Norfolk and Community Health and Care have implemented a new high speed network from Virgin Media Business.
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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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King’s Fund calls for brake on reforms
The case for reorganising the NHS in England has not been made and health ministers should reconsider the speed and scale of their proposed reforms, the King’s Fund has said. In its response to the Department of Health consultation on the white paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’, the health charity has questioned the […]
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EHI Awards 2010: the winners
A system that lets paramedics hand over patient details to A&E staff electronically has scooped the top prize in the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT.
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Uncertain times
Fiona Barr finds that respondents to EHI Primary Care’s survey of strategic health authority and primary care trust staff are worried about the impact of the NHS white paper.
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