via Acute sector faces wave of mergers and reconfigurations | News | Health Service Journal.
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The English NHS hospital sector is facing a wave of mergers, acquisitions and reconfigurations, HSJ’s extensive survey of trust chief executives has revealed.
via Half of GPs on clinical commissioning groups have financial links with private providers | BMJ.
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An analysis of clinical commissioning groups showing the financial links many GP board members have with non-NHS providers has raised fresh fears around potential conflicts of interest.
Doubts are being raised over government claims the NHS in England is making good progress on its savings target.
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Objectives Universally offered child health reviews form the backbone of the UK child health programme. The reviews assess children’s health, development and well-being and facilitate access to additional support as required. The number of reviews offered per child has been reduced over recent years to allow more flexible provision of support to families in need: equitable coverage of the remaining reviews is therefore particularly important. This study assessed the coverage of universal child health reviews, with an emphasis on trends over time and inequalities in coverage by deprivation.
via Nicholson: commissioning staff will know job fate by December | News | Health Service Journal.
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Commissioning staff will find out whether they have a place in the new commissioning system, and many will be transferred, by December, NHS Commissioning Board chief executive Sir David Nicholson has announced.
The right to choose a particular school or hospital will be enshrined in law, if new legislation announced by Prime Minister David Cameron is passed.
via BBC News – Cameron promises more choice on schools and hospitals.
The first volume of a “book of cancer knowledge” has been published, which scientists say will speed up the search for new cancer drugs.
via Lansley condemns expensive GP phone calls | News | Health Service Journal.
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Patients should not be charged premium phone call rates to make an appointment with their GP, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.
via MPs back guidance on assisted suicide in first Commons debate for 40 years | BMJ.
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The House of Commons has thrown its overwhelming support behind guidelines on assisted suicide from the director of public prosecutions, in the first full debate on assisted dying to take place on the floor of the UK’s elected chamber since 1970.
Through a new Public Health Responsibility Deal pledge on calorie reduction, the country’s biggest supermarkets, food manufacturers, caterers and food outlets are joining forces to help cut 5 billion calories from the nation’s daily diet.
via Public Health Responsibility Deal announces new food pledge | Department of Health.
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Abstract (by Kath Williams: East Midlands SHA) The Department of Health has published ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a workforce strategy for the public health system’. This consultation has been launched to help identify and unlock the potential of the people who are responsible for improving the population’s health and wellbeing. The closing date for comments is 29 June 2012.
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Objective To identify and empirically investigate the dimensions of leadership in medical education and healthcare professions.
