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Director appointed to NHS Liverpool Community Health - Liverpool Daily Post 3rd November 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE health service has appointed a new Finance Director.
Gary Andrews has taken up the role at NHS Liverpool Community Health.
He has more than 15 years’ experience in the finance and commercial sector."
Awards for Sefton's smoking advisers - Liverpool Echo 2nd November 2009
"SEFTON’S stop smoking advisers have been recognised for their accomplishments during the past 10 years.
Four members of NHS Sefton’s SUPPORT stop smoking team, based at Litherland Town Hall Health Centre, received long service certificates at a special event at the House of Commons marking a decade of stop smoking services."
New boss for NHS Liverpool Community Health - Liverpool Echo 2nd November 2009
"A MERSEYSIDE health service has appointed a new Finance Director.
Gary Andrews has taken up the role at NHS Liverpool Community Health.
He has more than 15 years experience in the finance and commercial sector, joining from United Utilities"
New dental surgeries in Copeland - Carlisle News & Star 2nd November 2009
"Two new dental surgeries in Copeland will be officially opened this week.
The Oasis Dental Care surgeries in Whitehaven and Workington have been up and running since summer and Copeland MP Jamie Reed will make the openings on Friday."
David Cameron: Tories would rename Department of Health - The Guardian 2nd November 2009
"Conservative leader promises NHS reforms to cut costs and extend 'patient power'"
Cameron lays out plans to save millions in NHS reform - The Times 3rd November 2009
"David Cameron promised yesterday to cut the cost of running the NHS by a third while handing day-to-day management of the health service over to an independent body.
The Tory leader guaranteed that up to £1.5 billion of savings on bureaucracy would be reinvested elsewhere in the health service. He also pledged to extend “patient power” and to create a rebranded Department of Public Health if his party won the next election. "
Cameron's NHS board is all well and good; where will the buck stop? - The Times 3rd November 2009
"When things go wrong in a David Cameron and Andrew Lansley-led health service, who will carry the can?
Under David Cameron’s blueprint released yesterday, day-to-day responsibility will be removed from ministers and handed to a council of doctors and managers known as the NHS board. Elected Tory politicians will set “strategic objectives”, but it will be for this body, effectively a super-quango, to oversee its £100 billion budget and execute its powers in whatever way it sees fit."
Over 65? Why some doctors think giving you the latest cancer drugs is just a waste - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"When Jenny Duffield told friends she was having surgery to reduce her risk of a deadly cancer, she was surprised when some of their reactions were lukewarm. "
Lung cancer treatment in UK is 'woefully inadequate' - The Independent 2nd November 2009
"Key areas of lung-cancer treatment are still "woefully inadequate" and could be costing up to 3,000 lives a year, leading researchers said today.
A third of patients still do not receive a biopsy to diagnose their condition and thousands are denied life-saving surgery because of a lack of experienced specialists, according to the United Kingdom Lung Cancer Coalition (UKLCC)."
Hospitals 'feel swine flu strain'- BBC Health News 1st November 2009
"Hospital intensive care wards are under "a lot of pressure" as a result of the swine flu pandemic, the UK government's most senior medical adviser has said.\n\nSir Liam Donaldson said a shortage of beds was a "concern" as more people are being hit with severe symptoms. "
Family sue over Chorley teen’s spinal operation - Chorley Citizen 30th October 2009
"THE family of a Chorley teen left paralysed for life after intricate spinal surgery have launched a bid for seven-figure compensation in London's High Court.
Laura May was just 11 – and trying on clothes while out shopping – when her mother Christine first noticed an anomaly in her upper back which prompted urgent medical attention. "
Clitheroe Health Centre shut until next Thursday - Lancashire Telegraph 30th October 2009
"CLITHEROE Health Centre is not expected to reopen until next Thursday or Friday after health bosses said damage caused by a fire was worse than they expected.
NHS East Lancashire said repair teams were working 'flat out' and would work over the weekend to restore electricity supplies after the £2m building’s lighting, heating, IT and telephone systems were knocked out by the blaze on Tuesday.
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‘Now is right time to go’ says Calderstones hospital boss - Lancashire Telegraph 30th October 2009
"A HOSPITAL boss has quit and said it was a honour to have held the role.
Graham Parr has resigned as chairman at Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Parr has held the chairmanship for five years and is a former director of estates at the old Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Health Trust"
MPs hopeful on Whiston burns unit decision - St Helens Star 30th October 2009
"ST HELENS Labour MPs are hopeful a decision will be made soon to reject proposals to downgrade specialist burns care at Whiston and Alder Hey hospitals.
The campaign to save Whiston Hospital's Burns Unit is gathering momentum. Campaigners have amassed thousands of names on a petition to save Whiston's Burns Unit.
They have taken confidence from their belief that Health Secretary Andy Burnham does not accept a regional review of burns care was carried out correctly. "
Patients left waiting by NHS win right to private care - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Cabinet agrees to enforce maximum waiting time of 18 weeks"
Blunder at top clinic sparks fresh IVF fears- The Independent on Sunday 1st November 2009
"A serious blunder at one of Britain's top fertility clinics dramatically increased the risk its patients would suffer a miscarriage or give birth to a child with serious health problems, sparking fresh fears about how IVF centres are run in the wake of a series of scandals."
NHS is paying millions to gag whistleblowers- The Independent on Sunday 1st November 2009
"NHS whistleblowers are routinely gagged in order to cover up dangerous and even dishonest practices that could attract bad publicity and damage a hospital's reputation.
Some local NHS bodies are spending millions of taxpayers' money to pay off and silence whistleblowers with "super gags" to stop them going public with patient safety incidents. Experts warn that patients' lives are being endangered by the use of intimidatory tactics to force out whistleblowers and deter other professionals from coming forward. "
Andy Burnham makes NHS private care pledge 'key election battleground' - Telegraph
"A war of words has broken out over the future of the National Health Service after ministers launched the right to free private treatment for patients on waiting lists. "
Patients who wait too long will get private care on the NHS - The Times 31st October 2009
"Patients who do not get the treatment that they need from the NHS within 18 weeks are to be given the legal right to free private care.
The Cabinet agreed this week that the legislation, placing maximum waiting times on the statute book for the first time, should be rushed through Parliament before the next election. "
Labour plays a waiting game with Tories over waiting lists - The Times 31st October 2009
"The reduction in NHS waiting lists is the most tangible achievement from all those billions of pounds and the years of often heavy-handed reform under Labour. Whereas an 18-month wait was once commonplace for operations such as hip replacements, now 18 weeks is seen as a minimum standard of care."
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