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After dealing with the M5 crash, South Western Ambulance Service is set to take over its smaller neighbour Great Western Days after grappling with the aftermath of the M5 crash, arguably the biggest and most demanding emergency in its history, South Western Ambulance Service (SWAS) – which covers the...
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Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Radcliffe trust integrate and form new working agreement with Oxford University Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS trust have merged, creating an integrated trust under a single board and management team. The newly-integrated...
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Gloucestershire's primary care trust has paused plans to transfer local health services to a community interest company pending a hearing NHS Gloucestershire has put on hold its plans to transfer community health services and a £100m budget from the local health service to Gloucestershire Care Services...
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Trust publishes tender for building development works to create a health and social care centre for 2014 NHS Bristol trust is looking for a private sector partner to carry out work at Frenchay hospital, which will be downgraded from an acute hospital to a health and social care centre. A spokeswoman...
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A south west council has moved its staff and those from its primary care trust into a new community interest company The people at Sirona Care and Health certainly can't be faulted on presentation. Sirona, its name inspired by Celtic mythology, visions of watery healing and teams of marketing advisors...
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Councils may have the will to take on their new responsibilities for public health, but do they have the way? "Smokers Wanted", announced the sign above an information stall at a sixth-form college in Swindon. The quirky take on the usual stop-smoking message drew students' attention to...
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A legal challenge has allowed protesters to delay the transfer of 3,000 staff from a primary care trust to a new social enterprise Michael Lloyd does not look like the sort of activist to cause a government-backed reform of the NHS to stop in its tracks. A stooped figure, clad in his worn Sunday best...
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Taunton's Musgrove Park and South Manchester's Wythenshawe hospitals are pioneering greener and cheaper Hospitals can save lives, but they can be bad for the health of the planet. Often environmentally unfriendly, energy inefficient and haemorrhaging money in fuel and electricity bills as a result...
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One of the NHS's new organisations seems to have a gap between rhetoric and practice, finds the Patient from hell Beware GPs who try to make life easier for themselves at the expense of their patients. I have a tale to tell, which could be a warning of things to come across the NHS. My daughter and...
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Heads of the four strategic health authority clusters in England will take up their new posts in October The Department of Health (DH) has confirmed the appointment of Strategic Health Authority (SHA) chief executives for the north, south, Midlands and east of England and London. The DH has appointed...
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England's 10 strategic health authorities will be grouped into North, Midlands, South and London cluster from this autumn England's strategic health authorities (SHAs) will be grouped into four clusters from October 2011, a briefing paper from the NHS Management Board has revealed. The four cluster...
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Online videos can be shocking, sexy – and a cheap way for NHS organisations to spread public health messages As arguments over whether NHS efficiency savings are leading to longer waiting lists continue, there is no debate over whether spending on public health advertising has been cut. One of the first...
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