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17/03/2015 - 16:20
Barts Health NHS Trust, the countries largest NHS hospital trust, has been placed into special measures following an investigation by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
17/03/2015 - 16:18
Mental health services are set to receive £1.25bn of funding in next week's budget, with the main intention of providing better care for more than 100,000 young people.
12/03/2015 - 11:23
A new website created by researchers at the universities of Bristol, Manchester, Oxford and University College London has been launched to help bridge the gap between healthcare professionals and patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.
06/03/2015 - 15:15
The government has revealed that a large proportion of NHS hospitals, community health services and mental health trusts will move to a voluntary tariff option for 2015/16.
05/03/2015 - 14:06
Over a third of GP-led Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) around the country have been approved to jointly commission GP services with NHS England, it has been announced today.
04/03/2015 - 11:15
It has been revealed in a survey that the majority of GPs will take early retirement or leave the profession by the age of 60.
04/03/2015 - 11:13
GPs in England will soon be able to prescribe you a warmer home, thanks to a £3m funding pledge that sets aside money to help those whose health issues are caused by living in damp, poorly heated housing.
25/02/2015 - 10:31
It has been reported that Greater Manchester will be the first the region to have full control of £6 billion NHS spending as part of devolution of powers.
25/02/2015 - 10:29
£300 million is to be spent over 5 years on research to combat dementia, the government has stated.
10/02/2015 - 14:07
A report by the Prime Minister's Enterprise Advisor Lord Young outlines a set of new reforms that will give smaller companies more opportunities to win government contracts. The report, five years in the making, analyses the developing nature of business since Lord Young's appointment as Enterprise Advisor in October 2011.
10/02/2015 - 09:37
Outsourcing giant Capita has been awarded a place on the £5bn Lead Provider Framework for Commissioning Support Services.
10/02/2015 - 09:36
British hospitals are undergoing clinical trials regarding a breath test to detect lung cancer
28/01/2015 - 11:58
NHS trade unions have suspended the industrial action planned for Thursday following a pay proposal put forward by the government.
28/01/2015 - 11:56
Roughly 1.2 million adults in the UK may be wrongly receiving treatment for asthma, according to the health watchdog NICE.
03/12/2014 - 15:59
The Chancellor's 2014 Autumn Statement revealed Government plans for spending on health over the next years.
03/12/2014 - 10:15
Private health firms are on course to win more than £9bn of NHS contracts to look after patients as a result of the coalition’s ramping up of competition in the health service, research shows.
25/11/2014 - 11:22
The European Nutrition for Health Alliance (ENHA) has launched a new campaign which focuses on reducing disease-related malnutrition among European healthcare patients.
19/11/2014 - 15:16
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said that over a tenth of all GP practices are to face urgent inspection following the conclusion of regulators that they could be failing to provide adequate levels of care to their patients.
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