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£260m fund for digital prescriptions

17/05/2013£260m fund for digital prescriptions

A new £260m fund will help hospitals to implement electronic prescriptions and patient record systems, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has ann... more >
Urgent care ‘crisis’ – College of Emergency Medicine

15/05/2013Urgent care ‘crisis’ – College of Emergency Medicine

Emergency departments in the UK are facing “unsustainable workloads” and their biggest challenge for over a decade, a new report by t... more >
New drive to integrate health and social care by 2018

14/05/2013New drive to integrate health and social care by 2018

Health and social care will be joined up by 2018, care and support minister Norman Lamb has announced. The new plans for the NHS and local g... more >
RCPCH calls for collective effort to tackle child inequality

17/05/2013RCPCH calls for collective effort to tackle child inequality

Improving health and wellbeing for children will take “collective eff... more >
‘Revelatory’ new IVF process could boost success rate to 78%

17/05/2013‘Revelatory’ new IVF process could boost success rate to 78%

A new IVF procedure could dramatically improve the success rate of healthy ... more >
£260m fund for digital prescriptions

17/05/2013£260m fund for digital prescriptions

A new £260m fund will help hospitals to implement electronic prescrip... more >
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Tobacco and public health

01/04/2013Tobacco and public health

Smoking is the country’s biggest cause of preventable death, and thus a... more >
Why think long term?

01/04/2013Why think long term?

The King’s Fund’s new report on the long-term trends in health sp... more >
The Cumberland Initiative

01/04/2013The Cumberland Initiative

The Cumberland Initiative is an effort by a community of academics, clinici... more >

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NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition 2013

05 Jun 2013 09:00

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New ways to tackle Unscheduled Care crisis

01/05/2013 09:00 - 17:00

The Cumberland Initiative launches on May 1-3 at a vital moment for the NHS, experiencing its greatest period of upheaval in half a century. In a series of events spread over three days an array of experts and facilities will focus on helping colleagues from different parts of the NHS to tackle the widespread crisis in unscheduled care. Please come and share latest thinking and try out new ways to simulate change, allowing you to think the unthinkable, trial the untried in a no-risk environment and achieve better solutions for our populations.

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New ways to tackle Unscheduled Care crisis

02/05/2013 09:00 - 17:00

The Cumberland Initiative launches on May 1-3 at a vital moment for the NHS, experiencing its greatest period of upheaval in half a century. In a series of events spread over three days an array of experts and facilities will focus on helping colleagues from different parts of the NHS to tackle the widespread crisis in unscheduled care. Please come and share latest thinking and try out new ways to simulate change, allowing you to think the unthinkable, trial the untried in a no-risk environment and achieve better solutions for our populations.

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New ways to tackle Unscheduled Care crisis

03/05/2013 09:00 - 17:00

The Cumberland Initiative launches on May 1-3 at a vital moment for the NHS, experiencing its greatest period of upheaval in half a century. In a series of events spread over three days an array of experts and facilities will focus on helping colleagues from different parts of the NHS to tackle the widespread crisis in unscheduled care. Please come and share latest thinking and try out new ways to simulate change, allowing you to think the unthinkable, trial the untried in a no-risk environment and achieve better solutions for our populations.

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Digital key

17/05/2013Digital key

The health secretary is recognising the importance of moving towards a digital NHS, not just for the cost efficiencies, but for the improvements in patient safety and reductio... more >
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'A political party that can be trusted by the public'

01/04/2013'A political party that can be trusted by the public'

The National Health Action Party was formed to protect a public NHS, follow... more >
Mapping the way to better healthcare in Essex

01/04/2013Mapping the way to better healthcare in Essex

From planning primary health facilities to effectively targeting public hea... more >
Using person-centred practices to improve hospital care

01/04/2013Using person-centred practices to improve hospital care

Helen Sanderson and Tracey Bush explain the new patient-centred approach to... more >

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01/04/2013Safety first

There are many competing priorities and worries for NHS executives to juggle at the moment, not least since the Francis report (and its 290 recommendations) has landed just weeks before the formal transition to new commissioning and regulatory structures under the Health & Social Care Act. Both are having to be navigated in the context of continuing financial pressures arising from the Nicholson challenge and the national budget freeze, as well as structural issues around the... read more >

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Changing the behaviour by design

Changing the behaviour by design

Ed Gardiner, behavioural design lead at Warwick Business School, discusses the power of behavioural design in the fight to tackle obesity. In February 2013, the Academy of Medical Royal Co more > more last word articles >