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April 10, 2012
A study of 16 integrated care pilots (ICP) across England finds that while the staff involved believe that such moves have led to process improvements, this view is not shared by patients.
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March 13, 2012
The NHS Constitution is to be reviewed and "revitalised," Ministers have announced.
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March 08, 2012
"This House believes that commissioners don't have the patient's best interest at heart" – this was the highly controversial theme of Pharma Times' annual Great Oxford Debate, held this year at the House of Lords.
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March 06, 2012
GP leaders have called on the coalition government to drop the Health and Social Care Bill and "enter into productive dialogue" to agree a way forward for clinically-led commissioning.
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February 09, 2012
Older people are being let down by fragmented care services, and the key to securing better outcomes for them - and delivering the required efficiency savings for the NHS - is joined-up services, say MPs.
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February 09, 2012
CCGs will be responsible for around £65 billion of NHS funds in England in 2012/13, and the NHS Commissioning Board will control a further £21 billion, the government has announced.
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January 31, 2012
The editors of three leading healthcare publications warn today that the NHS will need another overhaul in five years, and call for a public debate on its future to "salvage some good" from the government's "damaging" reforms.
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January 24, 2012
From April 2013, councils in England will be given £5.2 billion to improve the health of their populations, and cash incentives for those who make the most improvements, Ministers have announced.
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December 20, 2011
The NHS is to get a funding boost of over £2.5 billion to provide services to patients in 2012-13, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has announced.
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November 22, 2011
The Royal College of Nursing's claim that the NHS is "heading for crisis point" as job losses grow has been challenged by the NHS Confederation.
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