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Middle-aged spread and mortality
How eczema might lead to asthma
GM monkeys with glowing feet could help research into Parkinson’s
Managing diabetes cuts heart attacks
Health risks for IVF twins
Drinking from plastic bottles 'increases exposure to gender-bending chemical'
Potential bidders circle as first NHS trust goes up for grabs
Work keeps dementia 'at bay'
The 'three minute prostate test'
Sunshine 'the key to long life'
Meditation and brain growth
Alzheimer's 'reversed by pill'
NHS bribes to kick bad habits
Tories slam axing of dental checks
Trainee NHS doctors being told to lie about long working hours
Takeover is a test-run for nervous bidders
Action plan fails to leave a mark on malnutrition rate in NHS hospitals
Local government to make £600m extra efficiency savings
Foundation trusts challenged to use freedoms
Poll of hospital patients reveals chasm in care standards
Painkiller ban cuts suicides
More support for Parkinson's sufferers
London stroke and trauma shake-up gets public approval
Monitor has ‘effectively cancelled’ PFI contracts
Regions told to re-examine Darzi visions
Confusion fears over choose and book upgrade
New national director and Britnell replacement unveiled in DH reshuffle
NHS Top Leaders list gets under way
How to tackle equality and diversity in the health service
Government to reduce SHAs' performance management role
NHS competition panel allows foundation trust to take over community services
NHS boards 'confused' by C difficile guidance
Patients face radiotherapy 'lottery'
Monitor hits back at PFI 'cancellation' claim
Brown to announce private cash for NHS cancer treatment delays
BMA tells trusts not to victimise whistleblowers
IVF treatment mix-ups are 'rare'
Junior doctor 80 hour weeks 'gone forever'
NHS hospital ward shut due to poor cleanliness
Government abandons swine flu containment efforts
MRSA figures reveal patchy success
The Patient Safety First Campaign – 12 months on
Safe staffing levels, safe patients
Children's mental health needs 'neglected'
Mental health trusts ignore smoking ban
Mental health tariff timescale ticks off trusts
Angela Greatley on community mental health treatment
Brown planning another National Insurance tax grab to fund elderly care plan
Swine flu drugs for the pregnant
Parental stress and child asthma
Parental stress and child asthma
A test for premature birth?
Schizophrenia genes identified
Ultrasound for prostate cancer
Coffee aids Alzheimer's mice
Artery screening weighed-up
Organ transplant ban for foreign private patients
Healthcare watchdogs could suspend NHS inspections during crisis
Community treatment order fears confirmed
Ministers were warned ahead of Mid Staffordshire approval
Ethnicity not a factor in primary care access
Resigning trust chair calls for David Nicholson to investigate 'SHA pressure'
DH will probe how row over NHS targets led to bullying claims
Post-Shipman drug regulations working, says CQC
CQC to get tougher on NHS spending
Ambulance services: urgent attention for non-emergency care
DH is told 137,000 NHS posts must go in next five years
McKinsey cost-saving proposals focus on waste in acute sector
NHS patients 'eat worse than prisoners'
Alcohol-related hospital admissions 'on the rise'
NHS trusts slammed by DH over 'unacceptable' plans to export drugs
NHS regulators need a new outlook after Mid Staffs scandal
PCTs urged to chase mental health value
Healthcare watchdogs could suspend NHS inspections during crisis
NHS drug errors 'may top 860,000'
NHS trust pays £150,000 compensation over death
New hospital gowns to preserve patient dignity
Folic acid pregnancy warning
Common painkiller is addictive
Second tumours from cancer drug
Alcohol and depression
Study finds daily aspirin 'harmful'
People don't know signs of cancer
Recession means PCTs must make 'hard choices' on spending
CQC calls for review of out of hours GP services
Service warned over ‘grimy’ ambulances
Unite demands answers over health proposals
Choice of male or female GP still unequal
Most PCTs meet only ‘minimum requirements’ on resources use
Andy Burnham makes hospital car parking pledge
Hospital mortality ratio wrangling ‘compromises confidence’
NHS managers’ career progress barred by prejudices, confidential study finds
PCTs neglect value in general practice
Alan Milburn attacks Andy Burnham for making NHS the preferred provider
Mike O'Brien tells SHAs to 'justify their existence'
Andy Burnham’s preferred bidder pledge questioned
Call to link up mental health and substance misuse services for dual diagnosis
Patient satisfaction guaranteed: the future of payment by results?
World class commissioning: efficiency made a core competency
Patient reported outcome measures may be public next year
Increase work placement support, urges mental health charity
PCTs need to 'improve their performance' on youth mental health
Hinchingbrooke opens to bidding for franchise
Better mental healthcare 'may have stopped killing', report finds
Councils and NHS urged to drive joint funding
Annual health check - best and worst
Pre-Budget report removes £500m in health capital spending
Midwife shortage persists despite recruitment drive
Recession means health at work is more important than ever
Move children out of migrant centres, say medical experts
Healthcare improving but infections and GP waiting times need work, report says
Hospital funding to be based on patient satisfaction
Prescription errors are easily made
Hospital report: Attitudes to patients and families need to change
HSJ exclusive: NHS to take responsibility for social care
Barbara Young quits Care Quality Commission
OAP's care costs see life savings dwindle
Call over mentally ill murderers
Teenage guilty of abusing OAP
Stephen Ramsden to leave Luton and Dunstable
Community care plans could lead to a new generation of NHS organisations
Managers in court over hospital death
The Francis report's 18 recommendations
CQC fears over mental health safeguards
Call to address £23bn cost of dementia
Police probes deaths at mental health trust as chief exec announces departure
Angela Greatley: mental health services are moving on
How to increase BME access to psychological therapies
Summary Care Records Improve Patient Care In Luton
‘Ghastly’ loo habits sicken L&D patient
GP funding formula favours doctors in richest areas
Monitor increases FTs' efficiency target
CQC: half of trusts registered with conditions unaware of shortcomings
Hospital merger benefits questioned
Expiring drug patents could save healthcare providers billions
GP funding formula favours doctors in richest areas
Foreign GP rules need 'immediate changes'
‘Aggressive’ PCTs provoke legal threat
PCTs 'too passive on commissioning'
Treatment checklists cut deaths by 15pc
FTs offered cash to take control of failing trusts
Scotland airs first suicide prevention TV advert
Hillingdon and Enfield to integrate with mental health sector
Sacked consultant wins bullying appeal
Dementia funding being diverted
Mental health trusts best at patient involvement
Listening NHS chiefs boost ratings
CQC fears over mental health safeguards
Only two trusts miss CQC application deadline
Call to address £23bn cost of dementia
Leaked FTN document: no job guarantees for foundation trust staff
Mental health chief says departure not linked to trust deaths
King's Fund: NHS needs rapid change to meet challenges
David Cameron to guarantee GP access
Care record upload delayed
NHS trusts issue wake-up call on consultant productivity
PCTs pave the way for GP cash budgets in 2011-12
Cancer survival rates improve
Dearth of NHS performance data threatens quality improvement
CQC powers were weakened
Union warns on NHS cuts
Family horror at former land girl's hospital treatment
Drug firms lose battle over pricing
Commissioning has 'singularly failed' on long term conditions
Foundation trusts 'failing to listen to staff'
Call for hospitals to report knife wounds
Experts issue cancer care election challenge
Call to merge children's cardiac units
Foundation trust applications run into the ground
Asthma and Parkinson's losers in policy battle
Thousands of NHS jobs 'at risk'
How could this happen? Former Land Girl honoured by Brown dies after she is left to 'wallow in her own filth' on NHS ward
Gary Belfield to leave DH
Julia Palca named new Macmillian chair
Warning issued over harmful breathing machines
Cornwall trust chief unfairly dismissed after 'irritating' SHA, tribunal rules
Sacked hospital chief's MP bid falls flat
NHS hospital closures 'may improve patient care'
Young GPs 'priced out' of practices
NHS launch trauma forum consultation
NHS worker suspended over patient data loss
Monitor to look harder for FTs in financial trouble
PCTs 'missing out' on Twitter power
Lansley promises real terms NHS budget increases and greater say for clinicians over reconfiguration
BMA calls for more protection against doctor victimisation
Free NHS prescriptions should be axed, say public sector chiefs
Lansley to slash NHS management costs
PCT manager costs vary widely
Chief resigns after CQC fears
£100,000 fine over hospital death
'I wouldn't trust them with my hamster': Whistle blower lifts the lid on 'wildly successful' NHS trust
Foreign doctors 60 per cent more likely to be struck off than UK-trained medics
FOI reveals 24 staff suspended in six months
NHS reputation is on a par with Iceland chain
Choice more important to patients than doctors
Short GP appointment times 'hit diagnostic ability', survey claims
NICE calls for minimum alcohol pricing
Child asthma drug 'too expensive'
NHS service change plans will face stricter controls
Huge A&E attendance gaps revealed
Monitor chair wants FTs off public balance sheet
‘Patient safety must survive quango cull’
Poor DVT policies 'putting lives at risk'
High-risk psychiatric patients fitted with GPS
Suicide details hard for mental health commissioners to obtain
Transgender data brings down trust's CQC rating
NHS should focus on outcomes, not targets - Lansley
Over half of PCTs lose executive directors
NHS Choices 'saves £44m a year in unnecessary consultations'
Calls for 'inclusive' commissioning
GPs suggest cutting NHS Direct
NHS facing brain drain as leaders look for exit
Sir Hugh Taylor resigns from DH
Total Place could improve health and social care integration - Confed
Trusts should be ‘thinking big’ in their savings plans
DH says reform 'proceeding' despite doubts
Call for organ donation discussions
GPs refuse to work for out-of-hours services
New GP role may create deficit
Review finds £1.2bn swine flu effort 'proportionate'
Life expectancy gap widens across England
Hospitals face shortfalls as emergency demand spirals
Lost theatre time opportunity
NICE publishes the first set of quality standards
Lansley: 'no job left for PCTs'
Public health directors move to local authorities
Monitor and CQC to run 'joint licence' from April 2012
Outcome goals to replace performance framework
Weak evidence supporting GP commissioning plan - Civitas
Patients to be given choice of GP and consultant
Lansley outlines plans for ‘health outcome’ measures
Nicholson tells chief executives: don't be defensive about change
NHS to take 'immediate steps' to split oversight of commissioning and provision
NHS staff to find out if their jobs are at risk by September
Only government spending warded off recession
Cancer survival rates improve
Nicholson warns DH may 'take powers' over £1.7bn of PCT allocations this year
White paper: DH unit will force foundation trust move
Exclusive survey: HSJ readers unenthused by white paper
Personal health budget pilots raise concerns
£400m NHS funds may go to social care
PCTs improve commissioning performance
NHS 'silences' 170 whistleblowers
NHS service reconfigurations 'surge' expected
National Childbirth Trust wants maternity providers to go it alone
DH criticises 'clearly unsatisfactory' European working time directive
Reconfiguration moratorium lifted in three months
Missing detail renders NHS quality accounts ‘meaningless’
Mental health trust considering merger
Mental health 'labels' criticised
NHS complaints volume rises
Tougher tack on increasing foundation trusts
Patients to be given choice of GP and consultant
Pledge to end mixed-sex hospital accommodation
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