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Privately-run hospital taken over by NHS after patient deaths following routine surgery

Commissioning Support Unit confirm services currently provided by Clinicenta will transfer to East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Sir Robert Francis: 'Patients and the public shouldn't have to write to one organisation and be told it's not their responsibility'

Painful wait: NHS helpline has 3,000-strong backlog of complaints about GPs and dentists

Officials say problems at the Customer Contact Centre in Redditch have now been resolved

Another nail in the coffin: Family doctors show support for charging patients for routine appointments

Deliver more with less! Job description revealed for new NHS chief - but health experience not essential

Ideal candidate has 'track record of change in a consumer-focussed environment'

Plans to slash services at a successful London hospital have been declared unlawful

Lewisham hospital will stay open - but only the lawyers have true cause to celebrate

The NHS's survival depends on the closure of services and even whole hospitals

 

Threat to diabetes sufferers as NHS rations testing strips to save money

Diabetes UK claims people are being put at risk from serious complications

The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust went into administration in April

Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust 'should be dissolved'

Administrators said that the trust’s Stafford Hospital and Cannock Hospital would remain open

You can't slash A&E services at Lewisham hospital: Jeremy Hunt overruled by High Court

Judge rules that Jeremy Hunt acted outside his powers with announcement to MPs

Two thirds of nurses have had to sacrifice time spent comforting and talking to patients because they are over-worked

Two-thirds of nurses are 'too busy to talk to patients'

Thousands more nursing posts have been cut since the research uncovered under-staffed wards

NHS already doing ‘more for less’, insists leading GP Dr Clare Gerada

The NHS is already doing “more for less”, the country’s top GP said yesterday, after Britain’s leading doctor said that the health service could learn about efficiency from high street computer shops.

People were taken aback when Sir Bruce Keogh, the Medical Director of the NHS, told this paper that the whole health service should emulate the economic philosophy of 'PC World or Dixons', in improving the quality of what it offers the British public while charging less for it

Run the NHS like Dixons or PC World? It could happen...

People were taken aback when Sir Bruce Keogh, the Medical Director of the NHS, told this paper that the whole health service should emulate the economic philosophy of “PC World or Dixons”, in improving the quality of what it offers the British public while charging less for it.

Another nail in the coffin: Family doctors show support for charging patients for routine appointments

NHS Direct aims to pull out of 111 contracts leaving non-emergency phone line on brink of collapse

Doctors and nurses have called for an urgent overhaul

Sir Bruce wants to put young doctors into leading roles

Run the NHS like PC World, says Britain’s leading doctor Sir Bruce Keogh

Health service must offer more quality for less money, says Sir Bruce Keogh

Undercover report reveals staff failures in 111 call centres

A new 24-hour health hotline is failing patients, according to an undercover television investigation.

Another nail in the coffin: Family doctors show support for charging patients for routine appointments

The biggest yet: £1.1bn health contract offered to private providers

Labour condemns 'most audacious sell-off to date'

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