via Competition improves health services, think tank says | BMJ.
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Competition can improve health services and reduce costs, the pressure group Reform has concluded.
A new report by the market oriented think tank provides examples of healthcare systems around the world to show that, far from fragmenting services, as critics of the government’s healthcare reforms claim, competition and reconfiguration can integrate and improve them.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has insisted that the government’s plans to overhaul the NHS will not mean a “market free-for-all” in healthcare.
via BBC News – NHS changes ‘won’t be a market free-for-all’.
via Hospitals need to change to ensure older people are treated with dignity, says commission | BMJ.
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An independent commission has called for fundamental changes so that hospitals and care homes ensure that all patients and residents are treated with dignity and respect.
via NHS will soon have to specify what care is and what isn’t freely available, GPs say | BMJ.
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The NHS needs to think carefully about what will and what won’t be funded as budgets contract, the Nuffield Trust concludes in a new report. It rules out producing a national list of treatments and procedures as too challenging a task and one that, even if successful, would inhibit local autonomy and be vulnerable to political lobbying.
via CCG calls for Health Bill to be scrapped | News | Health Service Journal.
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Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group has written to the prime minister calling on him to withdraw the Health Bill.
Foreign nationals are to be offered free treatment for HIV on the NHS under plans backed by the government.
via BBC News – Free HIV treatment on NHS for foreign nationals.
via Conflicts of interest Health Bill amendments agreed | News | Health Service Journal.
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Cross-party pressure in the House of Lords on strengthening clinical commissioning group governance will be reflected in further amendments to the Health Bill.
The teen pregnancy rate in England and Wales has reached its lowest since 1969, new data shows. You can view the data by clicking here
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Objective To assess the effectiveness of self monitoring blood glucose levels in people with non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes compared with clinical management without self monitoring, and to explore the effects in specific patient groups.
via Lords win tweaks to Health Bill on competition | News | Health Service Journal.
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The government looks set to accept a series of further changes to its Health Bill in the face of persisting political and professional concern.
via Further operational guidance for public health teams | News | Health Service Journal.
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Public health specialists in local authorities should spend roughly 40 per cent of their resources advising new healthcare commissioners, according to draft guidance launched this week.
via Lib Dems seek further Health Bill amendments | News | Health Service Journal.
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Ministers will attempt to fight off further controversy over the government’s troubled NHS reforms as the Health and Social Care Bill resumes its passage through the House of Lords today.
