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25/11/2015 - 17:03
Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Spending Review that the current £101 billion health budget will rise to £120 billion by 2020-21.
25/11/2015 - 16:32
Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Spending Review that grants for student nurses will be scrapped and replaced with loans.
25/11/2015 - 16:04
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he will agree to independent arbitration at the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) to reopen talks with the British Medical Association (BMA).
25/11/2015 - 11:35
The General Medical Committee (GMC) has issued guidance directing GPs to report patients who continue to drive against medical advice to the the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
24/11/2015 - 11:26
The General Practitioners Committee (GMC) is pressing for GP practices to be given longer-term deals, which are not subject to the Department of Health’s (DoH) annual ‘tinkering’, Pulse reports.
24/11/2015 - 11:23
The Treasury has agreed to grant NHS services in England with a £3.8 billion above-inflation, cash injection next year, as a result of increasing fears regarding pressures the service is facing.
23/11/2015 - 11:25
New guidelines issued by NHS England instruct that GP practices must register all patients within its boundaries, including those with no evidence of a permanent address, and those living in temporary homes such as boats or with friends.
23/11/2015 - 11:22
A cap on the funding of NHS agency staff has come into force, with intentions to generate a saving of £1 billion over the next three years.
20/11/2015 - 14:27
Overspending by NHS trusts has risen to £1.6billion this year, according to the latest quarterly performance report by Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority.
20/11/2015 - 11:33
Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, has called on NHS managers to lead a new drive to stamp out discrimination across healthcare.
20/11/2015 - 11:30
NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have released a consultation document that seeks to overhaul the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).
19/11/2015 - 11:29
The British Medical Association (BMA) has said GP training practices could be picketed during the junior doctor industrial action when the strike goes ahead.
19/11/2015 - 11:25
Results from the junior doctors' ballot reveals an overwhelming favour of strike action, continuing their dispute with ministers over a new contract, with 98 per cent voting in favour of industrial action.
19/11/2015 - 09:18
The results of a ballot of junior doctors in England will shortly be unveiled shortly (19 November), with a vote in favour of strikes widely expected.
18/11/2015 - 10:24
Out-of-hours providers are finding it difficult to recruit GPs for shifts after the seven-day GP access pilots began offering double the hourly rate, leaders have warned.
18/11/2015 - 09:55
Nearly one in four areas of England has unacceptably high rates of early deaths among people with mental health problems, a report suggests.
17/11/2015 - 11:55
A national whistleblowing policy has been unveiled, which aims to give NHS staff more support to raise concerns about quality of care.
17/11/2015 - 11:51
Safe staffing figures show a significant decline in nurse staffing levels, finding less than one in 10 hospitals meeting their own targets for the number of nurses working on wards.
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