Posted on Sunday, 6th June 2010 by admin
The Government will finally grant a long-awaited public inquiry into a hospital where up to 1,200 patients needlessly died. PM David Cameron has bowed to demands from relatives of those who died in the care of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. A full public inquiry could be announced as early as Wednesday and follows a [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 16th January 2010 by admin
The NHS has spent over £39 million pounds on lawyers to support the National Programme for IT, which has so far lost half of its lead suppliers. The troubled programme is over four years late and has seen two out of four main suppliers exit after tough contract negotiations. Read more
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Posted on Friday, 15th January 2010 by admin
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been recognised for making it easier for hospital staff and visitors to eat more healthily, by gaining a prestigious national award. David Matheson, catering Manager at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary picked up the healthy living award at the recent Promoting Health Service conference in Edinburgh. The healthy living award, [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 30th December 2009 by admin
Over the last three years, the budget of the NHS Counter Fraud unit was £32.4 million, while the squad recovered £10.1 million. The figures, contained in a Parliamentary written answer obtained by the Liberal Democrats, also show that fewer than 200 convictions were secured. Read more
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Posted on Tuesday, 29th December 2009 by admin
It seems like the NHS has hardly been out of the news over the last 10 years. Targets, superbugs and swine flu have all grabbed the headlines. But just how significant will the noughties prove to be? From feast to famine could well sum up the past decade for the NHS. The noughties kicked off [...]
Posted on Tuesday, 29th December 2009 by admin
Hospitals are facing a rule change that could mean that the £2 billion in assets held by NHS charities effectively become part of the general NHS budget, it has emerged. The Department of Health insists that donations to NHS charities will still be controlled by charity trustees rather than the Government. But charities leaders said [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 26th December 2009 by admin
Smokers are being offered a free “quit kit”, featuring calming audio downloads and a stress toy, in an effort to help them kick their habit in the new year. The NHS Stop Smoking Quit Kit, ordered online or over the phone, will provide smokers with a range of aids to help them to give up, [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 26th December 2009 by admin
The increases include a 43 per cent rise in the costs of managers, while spending on clerical staff rose by 78 per cent at Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), which decide how NHS funds should be used. Meanwhile, their expenditure on management consultants and temporary staff more than doubled. Patients’ groups accused the Government of wasting [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd December 2009 by admin
Pharmaceutical companies are being forced to cut the price of high cost cancer drugs for the first time as a result of a tough new approach by the NHS medicines watchdog, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice). In the latest example, Nice has today announced approval of trabectedin, a drug for soft tissue sarcoma, [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 17th December 2009 by admin
THE number of NHS staff earning wages totalling £100,000 or more is costing the Scottish taxpayer a staggering £230 million a year. Almost 2,000 Scottish health workers collected six-figure pay packets. Click here to read more.
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