Liberating the NHS

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19 January 2011

BCS calls for EPRs within five years

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has called for England to follow in the footsteps of the US by ensuring
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18 January 2011

Humana to pull out of UK

US private healthcare firm Humana is to pull out of the NHS commissioning support market and wind down its UK
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18 January 2011

Dorrell criticises ‘surprise’ shake-up

The Commons’ health committee has criticised the government’s approach to implementing the latest round of NHS reorganisation and reform.
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18 January 2011

HR framework limits commissioning scope

Money tied up in NHS reorganisation may leave GP commissioning consortia with little leaway to employ outside agencies, according to
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17 January 2011

Cameron: reform means competition

Prime minister David Cameron has underlined his government’s determination to introduce more competition to the health service in a speech
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14 January 2011

Info revolution ‘needs social media’

The Department of Health’s plans for an Information Revolution place too little emphasis on input by patients and use of
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14 January 2011

Around 350 GP consortia likely

The number of GP commissioning consortia that will be formed as primary care trusts are scrapped is likely to be
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13 January 2011

Many blocks on the road to revolution

Responses to the Information Revolution consultation have registered support for its vision of putting information at the heart of the
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13 January 2011

NHS ‘lacks skills’ for info revolution

Intellect has argued that the National Programme for IT in the NHS may have left some trusts without the skills
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10 January 2011

BMA will ‘step up lobbying’ on reforms

Two senior figures at the British Medical Association have said they will step up the organisation's lobbying activity once the
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