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How can older people’s care be improved? Your views wanted!

Thu, 2011-07-21 10:59 — Steven Towndrow

The NHS Confederation, Age UK and the Local Government Group (LGG, formerly the LGA) are launching a new 'partnership on dignity in care' to help drive improvements in the levels of care provided to older people in hospitals and care homes.

New tribunal service for doctors gets the go ahead

Thu, 2011-07-21 10:56 — Steven Towndrow

Doctors’ regulator the General Medical Council (GMC) has approved plans to establish a new medical practitioners’ tribunal service.

NHS services opened up to "Any Qualified Provider"

Thu, 2011-07-21 10:53 — Steven Towndrow

NHS patients will have more freedom to choose where they go for their healthcare, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has announced.

Winterbourne View Hospital report published

Mon, 2011-07-18 14:46 — Steven Towndrow

Social Care watchdog the Care Quality Commission has published its report on alleged abuse at the Winterbourne View hospital for people with learning difficulties, as featured in a recent Panorama investigation.

Should you have direct access to the Parliamentary Ombudsman?

Fri, 2011-07-15 11:17 — Steven Towndrow

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Ann Abraham has launched a consultation on whether the public should be able to bring complaints about government bodies to her office without first getting a referral from a Member of Parliament.

The legacy of Primary Care Trusts

Wed, 2011-07-13 14:33 — Scott Ellis

In April 2013 the government intends to abolish PCTs and replace them with new provider-commissioner relationships and processes. This paper sets out the successes and failures of PCTs and provides guidance for the way forward as the NHS radically changes.

What will the NHS Comissioning Board look like?

Mon, 2011-07-11 11:05 — Steven Towndrow

The Department of Health has published plans for how the national NHS Commissioning Board will work when it begins its work in April 2013.

Dilnot Commission sets out plans for funding social care

Fri, 2011-07-08 09:13 — Steven Towndrow

The Commission on Funding of Care and Support has presented its findings to the government in its report Fairer Care Funding,

Government commits to publish new NHS data

Thu, 2011-07-07 15:23 — Steven Towndrow

The Government’s has committed to publishing key data on the National Health Service

The new data will reveal clinical achievements and prescribing data by individual GP practices, the performance of hospital teams in treating lung cancer and other key healthcare conditions in an open format that can be used by all.

NHS faces Diabetes time-bomb

Thu, 2011-06-30 10:50 — Steven Towndrow

The NHS may be facing a diabetes time bomb involving the future care of hundreds-of-thousands of younger patients, according to the biggest ever audit of diabetes in England and Wales has found.

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