Pre-Budget Report

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Lansley: LSP contracts may be abandoned

Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said he believes it will be possible to abandon the existing local service provider
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Darling targets efficiency, pay and tax

The Chancellor has slightly shifted the focus of this yearā€™s Pre-Budget Report from the urgent need to make public sector
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NPfIT GP systems ‘target for cuts’

The development of new GP systems by local service providers is likely to be a target of cuts to the
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Burnham defends NPfIT but cuts Ā£600m

Health secretary Andy Burnham has launched a spirited defence of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, but Ā£600m
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Hard Times?

What does this weekā€™s pre-budget report mean for the NHS and its IT? Fiona Barr investigates.
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Pre-budget report targets NHS efficiency savings

Billions of pounds of extra efficiency savings are to be required from public sector organisations, including the NHS, the Chancellor of the
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NHS budget to reach Ā£110 billion by 2011

The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase
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Carry On Spending and Modernising, Says Brown

Chancellor Gordon Brown has ordered the NHS to carry on with plans for extra spending and modernisation despite shortfalls in
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