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The patient choice scheme document publishes guidance to all primary care trusts (PCTs) on the broader aspects of the policy on widening patient choice of GP practices.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Government is supporting children’s hospices with an annual revenue grant of £10m.
Overall Patient Experience scores updated to include results from a 2011 survey of adult inpatients. The following statistics were released…
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has written to the Death Certification National Steering Group members to advise that the full implementation…
Lord Howe today announced new guidance on the Cancer Drugs Fund, which will help speed up access to the drugs patients need.
Changes to Misuse of Drugs Regulations mean that appropriately qualified nurses and pharmacists will now be able to prescribe controlled drugs like morphine, diamorphine and prescription-strength co-codamol, the Government a…
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has set out the Government’s strategic objectives for the NHS Commissioning Board Authority.
Health Minister Simon Burns explains how better care and listening to patients about their experience of care can less spending for the NHS.
Department of Health has met with a small group of mental health stakeholders to discuss the long term conditions strategy being drafted.
Following negotiations between the GPs’ Committee of the British Medical Association and NHS Employers, ministers have signed off a new method…
Changes to Misuse of Drugs Regulations mean that appropriately qualified nurses and pharmacists will now be able to prescribe controlled drugs…
Fees paid under parts 2 and 3 of Annex G of the GMS Statement of Financial Entitlement (SFE): adjustments to compensate PCTs in 2012-13.
Regular bulletin from the Chief Nursing Officer. This is Christine Beasley's final bulletin as CNO.
Operational guidance on the implementation of the UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011 is published.
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Main Points This notice presents data on all breaches (i.e. occurrences of unjustified mixing) of the Mixed-Sex Accommodation (MSA) guidance…
Main Points - February 2012 Data are published on consultant-led Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times for patients who were treated…
Early implementers are being invited to apply to test a potential new way of funding long term conditions care.
Foreign doctors will have to prove they can speak English before they can practise inEnglandunder specific proposals that the Health Secretary…
Proposals to ensure the language competence of doctors have been put forward as part of a consultation launched today on regulations governing…
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