Unison attacks abolition of SHAs
Health unions have condemned the latest shake up of the NHS, which will include the abolition of strategic health authorities. Unision expressed dismay at what it described as a "dismal" Queen’s Speech this morning, and attacked an announcement by health secretary Andrew Lansley that SHAs will be scrapped by April 2012. Last week’s 30 page […]
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NHS Grampian texts drinkers hold, enough
NHS Grampian is using text messaging to try and prevent binge drinking and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases as part of a new pilot study in Scotland. Over the next year, researchers will send people in their twenties, who are considered hazardous drinkers, a text message every Friday night urging them to drink in […]
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Coalition sets out vision for NHS
The new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has set out a vision for the NHS that combines some of the most radical ideas from the two parties’ manifestos. As the foreword to the detailed coalition document states, the government is set to “take the Conservative thinking on markets, choice and competition” and “combine it with the Liberal […]
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Normal for Norfolk
A telehealth scheme involving four partners won the ‘best use of telehealth and telecare’ category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT.
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NHS London reconfiguration to be axed
The government is set to scrap a far-reaching reconfiguration of health services in London, including hospital mergers and closure of A&E units. The plans, which centred on the creation of ‘polysystems’ and involved hospital mergers and new polyclinics, took some three years to compile and were projected to save £5 billion a year by 2016. They […]
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EHI Awards judges announced
The full line up of the judging panel for the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT has been announced.
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PCTs look for GP agreement to SCR
Primary care trusts are seeking agreement from GP practices to go ahead with the creation of Summary Care Records in areas where their roll-out had been suspended.
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Burns and Burstow join health team
Two health ministers have been appointed to join health secretary Andrew Lansley at the Department of Health. The appointment of Conservative Simon Burns and Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow suggests there may not be a ministerial place for Conservative Stephen O’Brien or Lib Dem Norman Lamb, who both shadowed health in opposition. However, the junior ministerial […]
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Lansley gets health job in tough times
The new health secretary has confirmed that the NHS will receive ‘real terms’ increases in funding, but this will not make it immune from the need to find ‘efficiency savings’.
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ContactPoint to be scrapped
The controversial children’s database ContactPoint is to be scrapped by the new government, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have revealed.
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