Liberating the NHS

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29 August 2010

Row brews over end of NHS Direct

The government has defended its decision to scrap NHS Direct and replace it with a new 111 number service.
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26 August 2010

GP commissioners ‘blow budgets’

GP commissioners overspent their budgets by a net 2.5% last year, according to an analysis by the Health Service Journal
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24 August 2010

Unison takes white paper to High Court

The UK’s largest public service union has started legal action against health secretary Andrew Lansley, claiming that he has refused
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17 August 2010

Referral management centres criticised

Providing GPs with more information about referrals would be a more effective strategy for cutting costs and improving quality than
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13 August 2010

Government to scrap Audit Commission

News has leaked out that ministers are to scrap the Audit Commission and transfer its audit arm to the private
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12 August 2010

Simon Burns to speak at EHI Live 2010

Health minister Simon Burns has been announced as a keynote speaker at eHealth Insider Live 2010.
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10 August 2010

DH reviews Dr Foster Intelligence

The future of Dr Foster Intelligence, the UK’s best known provider of hospital performance information and analysis, is under review
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2 August 2010

Birmingham Portal drives info sharing

Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership has selected Dotted Eyes’ Health Portal to enable information sharing with GPs and between NHS
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28 July 2010

Dixon urges consortia to work quickly

The NHS Alliance is advising GP commissioners and primary care trusts to get consortia up and running as soon as
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27 July 2010

All trusts to be foundations by 2013

All NHS trusts will be obliged to become a foundation trust or merge with one by 2013, the Department of
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