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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."
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. "
Half of specialist heart units for children face closure under radical Government plans - The Sunday Telegraph 18th October 2009
"Half of the country's specialist heart surgery units for children face closure under controversial Government plans. "
Care for elderly and cutting costs are priority, says Andy Burnham - The Times 17th October 2009
"The NHS must be “re-engineered” to cope with the demands of an ageing population, the Health Secretary has told The Times. Politicians would have to grow up over the issue of cutting hospital-based services and moving more care into the community.
Andy Burnham said that care for the elderly, and tackling the unfair costs that force many families to sell their homes and use up their savings, should be the priority issue on which people vote at the general election next year. Taking care out of hospitals and closer to people’s homes would be central to this vision. "
Pendle MP: Stats prove Burnley needs an A&E - Lancashire Telegraph 11th October 2009
"AN MP has claimed that Department of Health statistics prove Burnley General Hospital is big enough to have its own A&E.
Gordon Prentice, MP for Pendle, is campaigning for an investigation into the 2007 move to shut Burnley’s emergency department and use only Blackburn to se"
A&E architect criticises handling of shake-up - The Bolton News 5th October 2009
"A CRITICAL report into East Lancashire’s A&E shake-up by an architect of the plans has been revealed for the first time.
Professor George Alberti, a government A and E expert, was a key figure behind the closure of Burnley's blue light service in November 2007 and the re-directing of all 999 cases to the Royal Blackburn Hospital. "
Cancer treatment enters 'very exciting' era - Telegraph
"Cancer treatment is entering a “very exciting” era as a number of projects reach fruition that could stop the disease being a major cause of death, Britain’s leading cancer scientist is to claim. "
Scientists on brink of cancer treatment revolution - The Observer 4th October 2009
"A new generation of drugs to tackle tumours said to be only a few years away"
Knutsford politics column by Tatton MP George Osborne: Medical centre survey - Knutsford Guardian 30th September 2009
"TATTON MP and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has been the town’s representative in Parliament since June 2001.
He replaced Martin Bell and became the youngest Conservative MP in the House of Common"
A revolution in care - The Guardian 30th September 2009
"Setting up a National Care Service would be equivalent to the creation of the NHS – now to tell the public what social care is"
Case study: Ending long hospital waits for diagnostic services - The Guardian 30th September 2009
"'The imminent financial squeeze could force the NHS to redesign services radically, because if you you won't be able to afford them'"
Hospital cutting mixed sex wards - The Bolton News 25th September 2009
MIXED sex wards have virtually been eradicated from the Royal Bolton Hospital, health chiefs say.
The hospital is spending more than £500,000 on reviewing and changing its wards and has just a handful of wards left to tackle.
Tory health chief backs call for A&E to return to Burnley - Lancashire Telegraph 25th September 2009
SHADOW Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has insisted there is “no reason” why an accident and emergency unit cannot be re-established at Burnley General Hospital.
The MP for South Cambridgeshire made the claim during an exclusive interview with the Lancashire Telegraph after a fact-finding mission to the Casterton Avenue hospital yesterday.
Renewed call for investigation into A&E in East Lancashire - Lancashire Telegraph 22nd September 2009
POLITICAL leaders in Burnley and Pendle have repeated their calls for an independent investigation into the controversy surrounding accident and emergency services in East Lancashire.
The findings of NHS internal inquiries by Dr Simon Walford and Jeremy Pease into casualty provisions are due to be reported back to the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust board within a matter of days.
Dr Crippen: Abolishing practice boundaries means goodbye to family doctors - The Guardian 22nd September 2009
Government plans to abolish practice boundaries is one step towards the 24/7 medical supermarket
Let patients choose their doctors - The Guardian 17th September 2009
Ann Robinson's defence of the status quo is wrong. Citizens should have a greater say in how services are accessed
Burnham's poor prescription - The Guardian 17th September 2009
There are many reasons why the health secretary's plan to abolish GP practice boundaries would be bad for patients
More reform of NHS needed as £15bn of savings must be found: Andy Burnham - Daily Telegraph 17th September 2009
The next decade in the NHS will see more reform of patient services than the last as £15bn of savings must be made as the era of big spending increases in the health service come to an end, Andy Burnham Health Secretary has said.
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