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10 June 2009

Confed: future ‘unprecedentedly difficult’

The NHS Confederation has warned that the health service is facing a £15 billion shortfall from 2010-11 and changed ways
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5 June 2009

Andy Burnham replaces Alan Johnson

Andy Burnham Andy Burnham has been named as the new health secretary. Burnham will replace Alan Johnson who moved to
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5 June 2009

CfH one of ‘big three’ users of consultants

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has identified NHS Connecting for Health as one of the big three users of management
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5 June 2009

Extend phone outreach: expert group

NHS Direct and NHS walk-in centres could provide more telephone-based outreach services to patients with long term conditions, according to
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4 June 2009

Mind that child

Dr David Low, consultant paediatrician and national clinical lead for paediatrics and child health at NHS Connecting for Health, discusses
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4 June 2009

Fit notes ‘to save GPs money’

Computer-generated ‘fit notes’ could save GPs more than £100m over the next ten years, according to the Department for Work
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4 June 2009

CompuGroup wins Malaysian deal

German health IT firm CompuGroup has been chosen to implement a hospital information system (HIS) at the Bintulu Hospital in
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3 June 2009

BMA leader calls for NPfIT to be scrapped

One of the leaders of the British Medical Association has described the NHS IT programme as “the worst case of
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1 June 2009

MHRA launches drug info debate

The UK’s medicines regulatory body has launched a consultation on the European Commission’s plans to change the rules on the
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28 May 2009

French primaries ban mobiles

Mobile phones are to be banned from French primary schools, under new government measures to reduce the health risk to
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