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Consultant pay to be frozen from April, says government
By Mike Broad - 10th March 2010
The pay of NHS consultants is to be frozen for 2010/2011, the Prime Minister has announced. In a speech in t ...
Roll-out of e-records "should be suspended"
By Mike Broad - 10th March 2010
The BMA has written to the government calling for a suspension of the programme to upload summaries of patient ...
More patients to be prosecuted for staff attacks
By Mike Broad - 10th March 2010
Patients or family members who attack doctors will be more likely to be prosecuted in future. Guidance issue ...
Safeguarding regulations damaging healthcare
By Mike Broad - 8th March 2010
Operating lists and outpatient clinics for children are continuing to be cancelled across the country due to t ...
Justification for polyclinics shot down by figures
By Mike Broad - 5th March 2010
Lord Darzi's plans to reconfigure A&E services, shifting huge numbers of patients to polyclinics and ur ...
"Funds to stimulate competition being wasted"
By Mike Broad - 4th March 2010
NHS reforms are failing to deliver widespread benefits, research reveals. A study by think tank Civitas sugge ...
Doctors risk prosecution over assisted suicide
By Mike Broad - 3rd March 2010
Doctors face a greater risk of prosecution for assisting a patient's suicide following new guidance, defence b ...
New rules to prevent health tourism in UK
By Mike Broad - 2nd March 2010
New proposals to prevent health tourism have been launched by the Department of Health. A key measure to res ...
More support for victims of discrimination
By Francesca Robinson - 2nd March 2010
A new scheme designed to fill a gap in the professional services available to ethnic minority doctors facing c ...
Patients unaware of summary care records
By Mike Broad - 1st March 2010
Patients don't have enough information about electronic patient records and their roll out should be slowed do ...
Doctors pose serious tax risk, says HMRC
Healthcare Republic - 10th March 2010
Burnham says work will shift to GPs for a decade
Pulse - 9th March 2010
Trust's guilty plea after epidural in the arm mistake
BBC Health - 7th March 2010
John Radcliffe Hospital suspends child heart ops
BBC Health - 3rd March 2010
NHS cash crisis prompts first wave of cuts
The Guardian - 2nd March 2010
Tories accuse the government of NHS IT stitch up
BBC Health - 2nd March 2010
Acute trust "take over" of general practice in London
Healthcare Republic - 1st March 2010
Leading Labour adviser on health switches to Tories
BBC Health - 26th February 2010
Assisted suicide: families can still face prosecution
The Guardian - 26th February 2010
Mid Staffs was driven by targets and cost-cutting
BBC Health - 24th February 2010