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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DH plans informatics future
The Department of Health is working on a plan to keep informatics services working during the latest shake-up of the NHS.
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Operating Framework tightens cash again
The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2011-12 focuses on keeping control of finances as the latest round of reorganisation is implemented.
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PCTs told to merge to prepare for change
The government has set out its plans for pushing ahead with a massive shake-up of the NHS in England.
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Nicholson tells NHS doubters to go
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said that NHS staff who do not support the changes in the white paper should leave the health service now.
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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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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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Connelly to lead information revolution
The Department of Health’s director general for informatics is to lead the government’s information revolution, according to a letter setting out the next stage of the Liberating the NHS reforms.
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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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‘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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