KEN Livingstone, the Labour candidate to be Mayor of London and a noted opponent of NHS privatisation, uses private healthcare services, City A.M. has learned.
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Hospital patients' lives are being put at risk by NHS staff's poor attention to intravenous fluid care, experts say. Delete the scoop?
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In January, Hunt said the NHS would be paperless by 2018, while the government also wants to give people the ability to access their health records held by their GP by 2015. Delete the scoop?
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The Secretary of State for Health is still considering a report into financial mismanagement at NHS Croydon, his department has said. Delete the scoop?
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EU and non-EU migrants combined cost the NHS only £7m; their cost is far smaller than their number, proportionally, because they are younger, on average, than... Delete the scoop?
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HSBC now owns 3 NHS hospitals outright. Profits held in offshore tax haven. Just tip of the iceberg. Leave a reply · All in it Together: How Government Is Handing Ownership of our Schools and Hospitals to Banks.
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More than a third of calls to a confidential phone line which allows health workers in Scotland to raise concerns about NHS practices have come from other parts of the UK.
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ABOUT £2.5m has been spent in the emergency department phase of the hospital's redevelopment.The scheme has taken more than a year to complete and will enable Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals... Delete the scoop?
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Vital patient information including patient notes and prescriptions are to "go digital" as part of a £260m move to cut down the number of paper blunders and make the NHS "safer". Delete the scoop?
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The new NHS 111 urgent care helpline is already struggling to cope with demand in Surrey – even though the majority of us don't even know it is up and...
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Another troubled NHS IT project! Delete the scoop?
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In a more recent article, Seddon complained that the NHS “burns money like no other public service”. Delete the scoop?
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Brian Houston, an accountant and management consultant, will lead NHS Lothian – Scotland's second biggest health board with a £1.4 billion annual budget – for the next four years as... Delete the scoop?
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Ministers have been told they must go further with their overhaul of social care in England by merging its budget with the NHS. Delete the scoop?
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GPs will once again be forced to provide out of hours care for their patients under proposals set to be unveiled this week. Delete the scoop?
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Mr Swinney and Perth and Kinross councillor Douglas Pover took the matter further and the MSP has written to the surgery after meeting Mr Marr. Delete the scoop?
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The next two years will see a fierce debate about immediate priorities in public spending, but many health economists are already looking 30 to 40 years further ahead. Delete the scoop?
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GPC member and anti-NHS privatisation campaigner Dr David Wrigley told GP: 'I am very supportive of Lord Owen's ongoing campaign to protect the NHS against privatisation. Delete the scoop?
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All used the “no win, no fee” system in suing for clients over medical blunders. It came as the health service paid out a record £1.2billion in compensation in 2011-2012.
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I wonder how this company is handling its tax affairs? I wonder oif they have an offshore tax haven account for their accounts? Delete the scoop?
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The Care Quality Commission's intervention will increase fears over NHS contracts being put out to competitive tender under the Government's controversial Health and Social Care... Delete the scoop?
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GPs are not to blame for the rising pressure on A&E departments as figures show that attendance at emergency departments is ‘stable’, says an NHS England adviser on its emergency care review.
Dr Agnelo Fernandes, the RCGP’s urgent care lead who sits on NHS England’s Emergency Care Review, speaking in a personal capacity, said that A&E attendance figures have remained flat over the decade, and the reason for an apparent increase in attendance is due to a change in recording figures and ‘risk averse’ junior doctors. Delete the scoop?
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A KIDDERMINSTER nurse who had a pair of seven-inch forceps left inside her after surgery has said she wants someone to take responsibility for the mistake. Delete the scoop?
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A cancer sufferer has described the upheaval facing her family after being told she would have to move to England just to get the drug she needs for free. Delete the scoop?
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Recent figures released by the Royal College of Nursing suggest that on average British nurses spend 17.3% of their time on paperwork and clerical tasks instead of caring...
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Surely, this is one aspect that needs to be sorted out as soon as possible. For the amount of money that has been spent (and wasted) over the past few years for IT improvements it amazes me that we are still stuck with paper based reporting. Delete the scoop?
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Some experts in Britain's most common cancer are expecting the NHS to face increasing demand from women anxious about developing breast cancer and...
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