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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will no longer directly decide whether the NHS funds a drug under the proposed new pricing system, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said. […]

The health secretary has reiterated his opposition to forcing mergers between health and social care commissioners, ahead of the publication of a white paper on the issue. […]

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has proposed increasing the annual registrants’ fee to £120 from the start of next year. […]

NHS organisations plan to place surplus land equivalent to 350 Trafalgar Squares on the market for housing development in the next few years, latest figures from the Department of Health reveal. […]

The head of the General Social Care Council and a Department of Health director general are among those believed to have applied to become chief executive of the Care Quality Commission. […]

WORKFORCE: A facilities management firm working at an NHS hospital is being investigated over allegations it brought in agency workers to cover for striking staff members. […]

Medication errors occur in the treatment of 3,700 inpatients with diabetes in hospitals in England and Wales each week, according to the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit. […]

FINANCE: The president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said she is “deeply concerned” by a strategic health authority’s decision to cut a mental health budget in favour of cancer spending. […]

Thirty-one trusts received bailout payments in 2011-12, information released to HSJ under the Freedom of Information Act reveals. […]

Document to include Law Commission recommendations and ‘market oversight’ measures […]

NHS organisations plan to place surplus land equivalent to 350 Trafalgar Squares on the market for housing development in the next few years, latest figures from the Department of Health reveal. […]

One of the leading figures in health information has cast doubt on the government’s ability to give all patients online access to their GP record by 2015. […]

The health secretary has hinted that he would welcome the inclusion of schools among those represented on health and wellbeing boards. […]

Clinical commissioning groups are opting to host support functions in-house rather than outsource to “unproven” commissioning support services. […]

Doctors across the UK have begun voting on whether to take industrial action for the first time in more than three decades. […]

FINANCE: Oxfordshire primary care trust had overspent on its contract with Oxford University Hospitals Trust by more than £23m in the first 10 months of 2011-12. […]

FINANCE: Efficiency plans in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire were both falling short of target at the end of 2011-12. […]

NHS commissioners will be “taken to the cleaners” by private sector providers, the head of the Royal College of Nursing has claimed. […]

Three out of 26 commissioning support service plans have been scrapped and a further nine have been identified as needing “rigorous management”, the NHS Commissioning Board has announced this morning. […]

PERFORMANCE: The number of people dying of heart attacks in Medway has fallen by 77 per cent over the last two decades, according to latest public health data. […]

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will no longer directly decide whether the NHS funds a drug under the proposed new pricing system, health secretary Andrew Lansley has said. […]

Drug prices agreed under the government’s proposed new pricing system would have to remain secret if drug companies are to buy into it, a senior figure in the pharmaceutical industry has warned. […]

Judgements on which drugs should be paid for by the NHS can be improved, the chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has said. […]

Patients are suffering because of a shortage of some NHS prescription medicines, a parliamentary group has warned. […]

The NHS spent nearly £50m on sleeping pills last year, a sharp rise on previous costs, new figures reveal. […]

Government proposals to introduce a value-based pricing system for new drugs will not significantly improve patient access to treatments, experts have warned. […]

The Department of Health failed to act on expert advice to commission an appraisal of a drug which could lead to savings of £100m for the NHS, it has emerged. […]

Around one in 20 prescriptions written by family doctors contains an error, according to a newly published study. […]

Doctors have been told they can bypass primary care trust funding processes and apply direct to the controversial Cancer Drugs Fund in certain cases, under new guidelines issued by the Department of Health. […]

A pharmaceutical company is taking a primary care trust cluster to court over its decision to encourage the use of a cheaper, unlicensed drug in a case that could be worth millions to the NHS. […]

One of the leading figures in health information has cast doubt on the government’s ability to give all patients online access to their GP record by 2015. […]

COMMERCIAL: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a contract for a new electronic patient record system. […]

The NHS has been urged to learn from New Zealand when it comes to using IT in healthcare innovation. […]

COMMERCIAL: NHS Somerset has awarded a £1.2m telehealth contract to Safe Patient Systems. […]

A leaked NHS Commissioning Board document suggests the majority of data “intelligence” services supplied to clinical commissioning groups will have to be provided by local commissioning support units, rather than on a national scale. […]

The “disproportionate” financial implications of changes to the way the NHS classifies patients have led it to maintain “inaccurate recording and inaccurate payments”, the Audit Commission has reported. […]

A fourfold variation in demand for GP out of hours services has emerged in the first detailed data to allow for comparisons between areas. […]

Detectives are “assessing” whether a health board which failed to provide information about 56 serious incidents at its hospitals was guilty of any “criminality”. […]

COMMERCIAL: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract with 2e2 to provide all its information and communications technology services.  […]

The chair of an IT company involved in a major NHS project became a multi-millionaire by fiddling accounts to mislead the stock market, a court has heard. […]

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Medication errors occur in the treatment of 3,700 inpatients with diabetes in hospitals in England and Wales each week, according to the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit. […]

Thirty-one trusts received bailout payments in 2011-12, information released to HSJ under the Freedom of Information Act reveals. […]

PERFORMANCE: A total of 850 former A&E patients at Chesterfield Royal Hospital are to be asked their views on how the foundation trust can improve its services. […]

SERVICES: A new short stay medical unit has been opened in Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire. […]

PERFORMANCE: West Suffolk Foundation Trust has taken the first steps towards UNICEF’s Baby Friendly accreditation. […]

SERVICES: Patients at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation Trust will be able to ‘self check-in’ at a new £2.7m hospital entrance. […]

A more integrated approach to preventing falls could cut incidents by up to 30 per cent, saving money and bed days, a report from the NHS Confederation has found. […]

A panel appointed to look at the options for downgrading a hospital in south west London has recommended closing health minister Paul Burstow’s local A&E and maternity department. […]

PERFORMANCE: A patient’s life might have been saved if care at the Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust had not been so poor, according to the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman. […]

PERFORMANCE: The foundation trust regulator has stepped in at Gloucestershire Hospitals in a bid to redress its “persistent failures” to tackle long waits for accident and emergency treatment. […]

Stuart Broad is happy with England's position after day one of the first Test at Lord's as West Indies close on 243-9. […]

Stuart Broad is happy with England's position after day one of the first Test at Lord's as West Indies close on 243-9. […]

Alastair Seeley and Ryan Farquhar clinch popular home wins as Thursday night racing takes place at the North West 200. […]

Watch Casey Stoner winning the 2011 MotoGP championship. […]

"West Indies showed determination. At least it was not the sort of frenetic batting performance we have seen from them before in these conditions." […]

Current MotoGP champion Casey Stoner announces he will be retiring at the end of this season. […]

Tom Westley's highest Championship score of the season brings Essex back into contention against Leicestershire. […]

Liverpool target Roberto Martinez on the pressures of managing in the Premier League […]

Wigan boss Roberto Martinez explains the pressures of managing in the Premier League, as Liverpool make an approach over their vacant position […]

A century from Steve Davies keeps Surrey alive in their County Championship Division One match against Somerset. […]

Robotic arm controlled by thought - Two patients who are paralysed from the neck down are able to control a robotic arm using their thoughts. [BBC Health] […]

Google 'Knowledge Graph' turns entire internet into one big Wikipedia - Google says this is a 'critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do.' [Daily Mail IT] […]

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Mind-bending: Controlling your Windows PC with your brain is possible (and the hardware is already on the shelves) - Now we are getting ready to enter the world of thought-control, with headsets that can read our minds now available for as little as £300, and the software to turn our dreams into actions starting to take shape. [Daily Mail IT] […]

Waste company 'bullying clients' - A waste company stands accused of bullying small businesses by using unfair contracts to ramp up charges, the BBC has learned. [BBC Business] […]

Greece unity talks hit stalemate - The latest attempts to form a Greek government are said to be deadlocked, raising the prospect of fresh elections and more eurozone uncertainty. [BBC Business] […]

Google brings instant answers to search results - Type in 'Mona Lisa', and a biography appears right on the page (on the right hand side), type in 'Leonardo DiCaprio' and you get a list of his films, and suggested related searches. [Daily Mail IT] […]

Sixth of cancers due to infection - One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest. [BBC Health] […]

New car sales rise 3.3% in April - New car sales in the UK rose to 142,322 in April, up 3.3% from a year earlier, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders says. [BBC Business] […]

Local elections 2012: Bloody nose for David Cameron as Labour on course to gain 700 seats - The PM, who suffered embarrassing losses in his own Oxfordshire constituency, apologised to Tory councillors today as more than 700 were expected to lose their seats in the crushing defeat for the party. [Daily Mail Show Biz and TV] […]

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