Women in Wirral on Merseyside will be the first to be able to opt to receive maternity care from a private company Women in Wirral have become the first to be able to opt to have their babies delivered and maternity care from a private company. NHS Wirral signed a three-year contract with One to One...
Former health secretary and chair of health select committee says that better use of IT will help eliminate waste in the NHS, reports Gill Hitchcock When the Audit Commission published its review of England's NHS this summer and warned of growing financial pressures, trusts already knew that achieving...
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One in eight breaches reported by health service organisations resulted in staff dismissal Figures released to the privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch show that 806 separate incidents involving patient medical records being compromised took place at 152 NHS trusts between July 2008 and July 2011...
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NHS special health authority profile General Information Address: NHS Blood and Transplant Oak House Reeds Crescent WD24 4QN Watford Hertfordshire United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1923 486 800 Email: customer.services@nhsbt.nhs.uk Twitter: @NHSBT Web: http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk Chief Executive: Lynda Hamlyn Key...
English trusts and Welsh health boards are still waiting to receive licensing allocation from Connecting for Health to budget for software procurement NHS organisations in England and Wales are refusing to sign off new purchase orders with resellers, a year after the coalition binned its enterprise-wide...